Chapter 37 TEST

Question 1

What did LBJ call his domestic, progressive plans for the U.S.

Answer 1

The Great Society

Question 2

What did the Tonkin Gulf Resolution do?

Answer 2

Funded the military to attack North Vietnam after two boat attack, no questions asked, won Lyndon Baines Johnson the 1964 election

Question 3

What 2 reasons did people vote for LBJ in 1964?

Answer 3

He seemed tough from funding the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution + commercial that painted Barry Goldwater as destructive as he supported nuclear weapons

Question 4

4 successes from the Great Society plan(1964)? (Addressed preschool education, health insurance, immigration and voting)

Answer 4

•Project Head Start
•Medicare & Medicaid
•Immigration and Nationality Act(for latinos and asians
•Voting rights

Question 5

Immigration shifted to what 2 ethnicities from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Answer 5

Asian people and Hispanic people

Question 6

Main goal of African American civil rights movement in the south of 1964?

Answer 6

African American voting rights
civil rights
integration

Question 7

Black Power advocates focused on what in the North?

Answer 7

Gaining civil rights separate from White people
embracing African culture

Question 8

What did Black Power represent?

Answer 8

African American’s
•political
•economic
power

Question 9

What did LBJ tell the CIA to do during the Vietnam War?

Answer 9

Asked the CIA to investigate “dove”(antiwar) protest leaders, even though it was totalitarian.

Question 10

What did Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy (both Democrat candidates) agree on based on their stance on Vietnam in 1968

Answer 10

They were both “doves” (antiwar in Vietnam)

Question 11

What was the Nixon Doctrine?

Answer 11

Nixon’s promise for the U.S. to momentarily aid Vietnam in defense, leaving them on their own immediately after

Question 12

Program/plan pushed for construction unions to hire more black apprentices

Answer 12

Philadelphia Plan

Question 13

Program from an executive order to stop racial discrimination in
workplaces, especially in gov. Jobs,

Answer 13

Affirmative action

Question 14

Who were code talkers?

Answer 14

Native American men in the American military who used their native language to communicate intel without German or Japan spies being able to understand.

Question 15

Secret report on early Vietnam war plans from JFK to Lyndon Johnson, exposing lies and misguided decisions

Answer 15

Pentagon Papers

Question 16

Break period in the Cold War where the Soviet Union and U.S. discussed decreasing weapons on both sides (missiles)

Answer 16

Détente

Question 17

Law/Act that limits the president from declaring war without Congress

Answer 17

War Powers Act

Question 18

Barry Goldwater?

Answer 18

Lyndon B Johnson’s 1964 opponent and direct enemy (rich vs poor, democrat vs republican)

Question 19

What were the Watts riots?

Answer 19

Watts Los Angeles riots, the black community vs. the police

Question 20

What committee did Black Power come from? (SNCC)

Answer 20

Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee turned into militant Black Power

Question 21

What Civil Rights leader was left after deaths of MLK and Malcom x?

Answer 21

Stokely Carmichael

Question 22

Where were the most integrated classrooms?

Answer 22

The south; it had bigger more diverse populations so integration came quicker

Question 23

Six Day War (1967), led to which country getting territory?

Answer 23

Israel:
•Sinai Peninsula
•Golan Heights
•Gaza Strip
•Jordan River (West Bank)

Question 24

Who were “Doves” and “Hawks” (1968)

Answer 24

Doves:
Antiwar in Vietnam
Hawks:
Supported War in Vietnam

Question 25

U.S. siding with Israel in Six Day War conflict led to what? (1968)

Answer 25

1. Tension (Muslims vs. U.S.) (Jewish People vs. Israel) 2.The downfall of LBJ (due to involvement in another war and lying that end of war was near) 3. Oil embargo

Question 26

What was the Tet Offense? (1968)

Answer 26

•First televised battle •North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam •U.S. soldiers in South Vietnam fought, but it should war was far from over •Blame to LBJ

Question 27

LBJ’s downfall

Answer 27

•1967 siding with Israel in Six Day War •Lying that war was over soon •attempting to investigate and discredit antiwar leaders (he knew from the Tet Offense and Operation Rolling Thunder, war would last longer and tried to get support) •public finds out about all of it

Question 28

Operation Rolling Thunder?

Answer 28

•LBJ’s plans to threaten Vietnam with bombs to surrender and end war •This failed due to N. Vietnam fighting harder and building alliances with USSR and China

Question 29

The 3 Democratic candidates for 1968 election (LBJ was out of the running)

Answer 29

•Hubert Humphrey (VP) •Eugene McCarthy •Robert Kennedy (JFK’s brother/assassinated)

Question 30

The 2 1968 Republican candidates? (Pro war, one of them wanted segregation to last forever)

Answer 30

•Richard Nixon •George Wallace

Question 31

What are the three P’s of the 1960’s? (Younger generation’s progression and goals for the U.S.)

Answer 31

•Population (increase) •Protest (the gov. and tradition) •Prosperity (of the economy)

Question 32

First militant gay liberation protest (1969)

Answer 32

The Stonewall Rebellion

Question 33

Decrease of workers during the Vietnam war in the 1970s?

Answer 33

People were either in the military (lower classes) or in college (rich people)

Question 34

Why was there an economic boom in the 1970s post war when soldiers came home?

Answer 34

Those soldiers started working again and combated inflation.

Question 35

What was Nixon’s expertise as a President

Answer 35

Foreign affairs/trade

Question 36

Policy for Vietnamization name? (Nixon)

Answer 36

The Nixon Doctrine

Question 37

What side did the supreme court lean towards during Chief Justice Earl Warren, Liberal or Conservative?

Answer 37

Liberal (progressive)

Question 38

Most damning evidence against Nixon @ Watergate

Answer 38

Office recorded tapes

Question 39

Twenty Sixth Amendment: (1971)

Answer 39

Minimum voting age: 18

Question 40

Nixon’s national security adviser (organized trade meetings with Vietnam, China and Soviet Union

Answer 40

Henry Kissinger

Question 41

What was the Arab Oil Embargo?

Answer 41

The U.S.’s (LBJ’s) siding with Israel in the Six-Day War led to bitter Arab nations to ban Oil trade for 5 months

Question 42

What was My Lai?

Answer 42

A miscommunication between underaged, uneducated, lower class US soldiers and their generals. A south Vietnam village was confused for a north and innocent lives were lost