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US His. Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Republican candidate who lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election | Richard M. Nixon |
| First Catholic president. His domestic program was called New Frontier | John F. Kennedy |
| President whose Great Society program was a war on poverty | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| African-American civil rights lawyer who became a Supreme Court Justice | Thurgood Marshall |
| Feminist leader who wrote Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan |
| Environmental leader who wrote Silent Spring about danger of pesticides | Rachel Carson |
| She led opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment | Phyllis Schlafly |
| He organized Mexican migrant workers in the United Farm Workers union | Cesar Chavez |
| He was the spokesperson for the Nation of Islam until he left the group | Malcolm X |
| Her protest and arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycott | Rosa Parks |
| Native American lawyer who fought to regain tribal lands | Vine Deloria Jr. |
| He was the first African-American to attend all-white Univ. of Mississippi | James Meredith |
| Wrote The Other America to bring attention to poverty | Michael Harrington |
| Site of nuclear reactor meltdown in U.S.S.R | Chernobyl |
| Site of nuclear incident in U.S. | Three Mile Island |
| Group that had a shoot out with federal authorities at Wounded Knee | American Indian Movement |
| Dictates equality in school programs between sexes. Helped girls sports | Title IX |
| Stated rights shall not be denied based on one’s sex. Never ratified | Equal Rights Amendment |
| Law forbids obstacles to suffrage like literacy tests and poll tax | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| Case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. Led to integration of public schools | Brown v. Board of Education |
| Law that made it unlawful anywhere to segregate public facilities | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Case allowed busing to integrate public schools | Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg |
| Case that allowed affirmative action but not fixed quotas | Regents of University of California v. Bakke |
| Case that legalized abortion | Roe v. Wade |
| President who made a goal to put a man on the moon | John F. Kennedy |
| U.S. supported this failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles | Bay of Pigs Invasion |
| Sends volunteers to aid developing nations | Peace Corps |
| Kennedy’s program to give aid to Latin American nations | Alliance for Progress |
| Great Society preschool program | Head Start |
| Domestic version of the Peace Corps (include abbreviation in parentheses) | Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) |
| Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | John F. Kennedy |
| VISTA was created under which president? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Who said, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"? | John F. Kennedy |
| The Peace Corps was created under what president? | John F. Kennedy |
| Medicare was established under what president? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Who was the main activist in the mainstream civil rights movement? | Martin Luther King |
| Who was the main activist in the black power movement? | Malcolm X |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated sit-ins? | Martin Luther King |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated separatism? | Malcolm X |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated the Nation of Islam? | Malcolm X |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated the Black Panthers? | Malcolm X |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated the SCLC? | Martin Luther King |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated integration? | Martin Luther King |
| Which prominent civil rights activist advocated the SNCC? | Martin Luther King |
| Which prominent civil rights activist said "by any means necessary"? | Malcolm X |
| Site of bus boycott | Montgomery, AL |
| Site of march to state court house | Selma, AL |
| Site of integration of public school | Little Rock, AK |
| Site of the start of sit-ins | Greensboro |
| Communist leader of North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| Leader of South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| President who escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam after Gulf of Tonkin incident | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| President who began removal of U.S. troops from Vietnam | Richard Nixon |
| Special Watergate prosecutor fired in “Saturday Night Massacre” | Archibald Cox |
| He assumed the presidency after Nixon resigned. Pardoned Nixon | Gerald Ford |
| Place of French defeat that led U.S. to greater involvement in Vietnam | Dien Bien Phu |
| Events here led to Pres. Johnson increasing U.S. involvement in Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin |
| Simultaneous communist guerilla attacks occurring throughout S. Vietnam | Tet Offensive |
| U.S. plan for withdrawal of troops from Vietnam | Vietnamization |
| Bombing of North Vietnam which brought them to the negotiating table | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| Revealed the extent to which U.S. presidents increased involvement in Vietnam | Pentagon Papers |
| Theory communists would spread across Southeast Asia if not stopped | Domino Theory |
| At the Geneva Accords, Vietnam was divided at this latitude | 17th Parallel |
| President who didn’t run for reelection due to unpopularity of the Vietnam War | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| University that was the sight of deaths of student antiwar protestors | Kent State University |
| A military overthrow of a government is a(n) | Coup D'état |
| Term for Vietnam antiwar protestors | Doves |
| Antiwar group that wanted more citizen involvement | Students For a Democratic Society |
| Student movement that began at the Univ. California at Berkeley | Free Speech Movement |
| Form of protest by students on college campuses similar to sit-in | Teach-ins |
| A concert that epitomized the youth and counterculture movement | Woodstock |
| Policy pursued by Nixon to lessen tensions with communist nations | Détente |
| Nixon’s domestic program to give more decision making back to states | New Federalism |
| Nixon visited this communist nation ( historic first ) | China |
| Treaty with the Soviet Union concerning limitations on nuclear missiles | Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty |
| Political scandal that led to Nixon resigning from the presidency | Watergate Scandal |
| In U.S. v Nixon, Nixon claimed ___ to try to avoid giving over White House tapes | Executive Privilege |
| Act after Vietnam War to limit presidential authority to commit troops to combat | War Powers Act |
| National Security Advisor / Sec. of State behind Nixon’s foreign policy | Henry Kissinger |
| Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed by Nixon. More conservative | Warren Burger |
| Art focusing on everyday objects and themes | Pop Art |
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