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1960's Study Guide
here are some study guide questions to the 1960's Unit for your test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peaceful Civil Rights Activist who gave the “I have a dream” speech | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960 | Gary Powers |
| Leader of South Vietnam, but assassinated before US involvement in Vietnam | Ngo Din Diem |
| Became president after John F Kennedy was shot | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Leader of North Vietnamese Army (Viet Minh) | Ho Chi Minh |
| Began the CIA covert operations to invade Cuba with Cuban refugees | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Allied commander over South Vietnam | William Westmoreland |
| President who brought an end to Vietnam War | Richard Nixon |
| Assassinated JFK | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Assassinated the man who Killed JFK | Jack Ruby |
| Founder of the Black Panther Movement | Huey Newton |
| Means “demilitarized Zone” | DMZ |
| Was dropped to destroy the jungle, a defoliant of all plant life | Agent Orange |
| Organization that ignored non-violent principles of the majority of the Civil Rights Movement and instead insisted on forceful methods to gain equality | Black Panthers |
| Idea that if one country fell to communism, the rest of the countries in that region would follow suit | Domino Theory |
| Required hiring of blacks | Affirmative Action |
| Nixon’s plan to slowly pull US troops out of Vietnam and allow South Vietnam to take over | Vietnamization |
| Fought for greater equality in society for women | National Organization of Women (NOW) |
| A way for the Vietcong to mobilize their troops and supplies | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| group of students that protested for civil rights in situations like sit-ins | Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee |
| Assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| Youth International Party members who were part of the counterculture and the New Left | Yippies |
| National Security Advisor of Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War | Henry Kissenger |
| Lead the National Farm Workers Association in an effort to gain equal rights for Latino Americans | Cesar Chavez |
| The election of 1960 was the first election where the _____ had a profound effect on the results. | Television |
| Which Country did Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh troops force out of Vietnam in 1954? | France |
| Negotiations that divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel were called… | Geneva Accords |
| What event caused the United States to become directly involved in Vietnam in 1964? | The Gulf of Tonkin |
| A plan to drop bombs on North Vietnam using air strikes from 1965-1968 was called… | Operation Rolling Thunder |
| What Happened at the Bay of Pigs? | Fidel Castro lead forces of Cuba against the invading Cuban Exiles. JFK withdrew US support at the last minute. Cuban exiles did not win Cuba back. |
| What was accomplished with JFK's New Frontier? | Increased the minimum wage, expanded the military creating jobs, expanded NASA, Passed the Equal Pay Act, improvements in the welfare system |
| As a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis... | The US, GB and USSR sign a nuclear test ban treaty, US removed Missile sites in Turkey, a Hot Line is installed b/w the US and USSR, Kruschev loses political power, Cuba removes missile sites. |
| LBJ'a War on Poverty programs included... | Medicare, Medicaid, HUD, Hear Start, Highway Safety Act, Economic Opportunity Act, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, etc. |
| LBJ's War on Poverty was a piece of his greater domestic policy called... | The Great Society |
| This Supreme Court Case upheld the 14th Amendment and resulted in the first law of its kind since reconstruction "One Man, One Vote" | Baker V Carr |
| What was the main reason why US soldiers had a hard time defeating the Viet Cong? | The Viet Cong used the cover of the Jungle and guerrilla attacks |
| Law passed that restricted presidential prominence over any future war | War Powers Act |
| The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s encouraged people to | Talk openly about sex |
| Events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | Know these events in depth. - Kennedy Lecture |
| Components of LBJ’s Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. | Know these components in depth - Johnson Lecture |
| The Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution. | Know these in depth.- Vietnam Lecture |
| Dissent among US troops and the American public about America’s involvement in Vietnam | Know these in depth - Vietnam Lecture |
| Conditions of the Ceasefire of 1973 | Know these conditions - Vietnam Lecture |
| The “Pentagon Papers?” | Know what this was and its effects - Vietnam Lecture |
| The 1960’s counterculture rooted in the 1950’s | How were these connected - Counterculture Lecture |
| Describe “Freedom Summer.” What was their purpose? What happened and what did they achieve? | Read over this event - Civil Rights Lecture |
| Who were the Freedom Riders, what was their purpose and what did they achieve? | Read over this event - Civil Rights Lecture |
| Identify the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What did it change? Who signed it? | Read over this piece of legislation - Civil Rights Lecture |
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