Chapter 38 - The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968

Question 1

John F. Kennedy

Answer 1

the 35th president of the United States

Question 2

Jacqueline Kennedy

Answer 2

Wife of John Kennedy

Question 3

Bobby Kennedy

Answer 3

The attorney general also JFK’s younger brother

Question 4

J. Edgar Hoover

Answer 4

Director of the FBI Who resisted “bobby’s” reform

Question 5

Robert McNamara

Answer 5

Business wiz who left Ford to head the Defense department.

Question 6

Peace Corps

Answer 6

proposed by Kennedy to use volunteering young people to bring American skills to underdeveloped countries

Question 7

Berlin Wall

Answer 7

wall separating east and west Berlin created by the soviet union.

Question 8

Common Market

Answer 8

Free trade area that later became the European Union

Question 9

Trade Expansion Act

Answer 9

initiated tariff cuts of up to 50% to promote trade with the common market

Question 10

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 10

President of France who vetoed the british application to the common Market and developed a french Nuclear program

Question 11

Laos

Answer 11

country let loose by the french that underwent a civil war involving Communism

Question 12

Flexible Response

Answer 12

Military options that could be matched to the gravity of the situation i.e. The Green Berets

Question 13

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 13

The corrupt right wing government in vietnam

Question 14

Viet Cong

Answer 14

Guerrilla group during the Vietnam War

Question 15

Alliance for Progress

Answer 15

Alliance with latin American countries that was built to create a stronger middle class in the countries.

Question 16

Fidel Castro

Answer 16

Communist dictator of Cuba

Question 17

Bay of Pigs

Answer 17

Plan using exiles from cuba to topple Fidel Castro that failed.

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 18

Soviets used cuba as a Nuclear storing ground that lead to a fierce standoff between the two countries who threatened each other with missile attacks for a week.

Question 19

Nikita Khrushchev -

Answer 19

The soviet leader During the cold war who was unpersoned

Question 20

Quarantine

Answer 20

The Blocking Of cuba from any supplies to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Question 21

Hot Line

Answer 21

permitted immediate teletype communications in a time of crisis.

Question 22

Freedom Riders

Answer 22

People who toured the south in a bus to protest discrimination and civil violence

Question 23

Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 23

revered leader during the Civil rights movement

Question 24

SNCC

Answer 24

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 25

James Meredith

Answer 25

Student who was violently opposed when he applied to Ole Miss

Question 26

Birmingham

Answer 26

The most segregated city that existed in America

Question 27

March on Washington

Answer 27

Civil rights protest march lead by Martin Luther King jr.

Question 28

"I Have a Dream"

Answer 28

Famous speech given by MLK jr. during the March on washington.

Question 29

Medgar Evers -

Answer 29

black mississippi worker who was killed after the march on washington

Question 30

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Answer 30

Vice President who took over after Kennedy's assassination.

Question 31

The Johnson Treatment

Answer 31

LBJ’s ability to seemingly switch political parties whenever it was needed.

Question 32

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 32

Act that banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public.

Question 33

Affirmative Action

Answer 33

executive order requiring all federal contractors to fight discrimination

Question 34

War on Poverty

Answer 34

Tax bill that was sent through congress by LBJ

Question 35

Great Society

Answer 35

A New deal like program that was created by LBJ That aimed at transforming the Americans way of life.

Question 36

The Other America

Answer 36

Book that laid out how bad poverty was especially in the black communities.

Question 37

Barry Goldwater

Answer 37

Republican Candidate who battled LBJ for the Presidency

Question 38

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 38

plan to launch a limited military air raid against vietnam after an attack

Question 39

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Answer 39

two new cabinet offices added by LBJ

Question 40

Medicare

Answer 40

health care for the elderly

Question 41

Medicaid

Answer 41

Health Care for the impoverished

Question 42

Entitlements

Answer 42

rights in certain categories that don’t need congressional re-approval

Question 43

Immigration and Nationality Act

Answer 43

abolished the national origins quotas system and doubled the amount of immigrants that were allowed to come into the country

Question 44

Head Start

Answer 44

program designed to better educate the impoverished youth.

Question 45

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 45

outlawed literacy tests and sent registers to many southern states

Question 46

The Twenty-fourth Amendment

Answer 46

abolished poll taxes on federal elections

Question 47

Freedom Summer

Answer 47

massive voter registration drive in Mississippi

Question 48

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -

Answer 48

group that attempted to get a seat but was denied one at the national democratic convention

Question 49

Selma

Answer 49

city in Alabama where only one percent of the blacks were registered to vote en though they were equally populated to white people

Question 50

Watts

Answer 50

black ghetto in Los Angeles

Question 51

Malcolm X

Answer 51

leader in the civil rights movement who used more violent tactics

Question 52

Elijah Muhammed

Answer 52

Leader of the Black nationalist in the Nation of Islam who preached separatism

Question 53

Black Panthers

Answer 53

violent group of civil rights activists.

Question 54

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 54

Leader of the SNCC

Question 55

Operation Rolling Thunder

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Regular full scale bombing runs against northern vietnam

Question 56

Guerrilla Warfare

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type of combat that involved using your surroundings and ambushes to achieve victory

Question 57

Six-Day War

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war between the soviet controlled egypt and Israel that Israel won in sixty days.

Question 58

Teach-ins

Answer 58

general discussion based on political fairs first held at (x)ichigan University about the Vietnam war draft

Question 59

William Fulbright

Answer 59

senator that staged televised hearings discrediting the war

Question 60

Credibility Gap

Answer 60

The lack of credibility coming from the government to it’s people

Question 61

Cointelpro

Answer 61

FBI counterintelligence program

Question 62

Tet Offensive

Answer 62

Attack that we won but gave the Viet cong a political victory as it showed that this force would not work

Question 63

Eugene McCarthy

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-American Politician and poet who served in the House of representatives who lead anti war students as campaigners

Question 64

Hubert Humphrey

Answer 64

LBJ”S appointed “heir” for the democratic nomination.

Question 65

Democratic Convention

Answer 65

convention of the democratic party during the election period

Question 66

Richard Nixon

Answer 66

Republican candidate that took advantage of the divided democrats and secured the presidency

Question 67

George Wallace

Answer 67

Alabama governor who supported segregation forever.

Question 68

Berkeley

Answer 68

Activist from the college had clean cut and sober minded sit ins

Question 69

Sexual Revolution

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with the introduction of birth control many people began to appease their sexual appetites than they had before as well as the rise of LGBT rights

Question 70

Stonewall Inn

Answer 70

Brutal attack from police officers on Gay men

Question 71

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 71

Student group that was at the forefront of anti war and poverty

Question 72

LSD

Answer 72

drug that many students tried during the sixties.