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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? | A student organization, founded in 1960, to give voice to a new wave of student protest. |
| Who was Betty Friedan? | An American writer and activist, whose book, The Feminine Mystique, played a central role in the development of the new women’s movement of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s |
| Why did Sylvia Plath's book "The Bell Jar" "strike a nerve among many women" during this period of history? | Because they had been pushed by their culture to accept the role of homemaker and helper to a successful husband |
| How does Stanley Kubrick's movie "Dr. Strangelove" relate to the Cold War? | Because the Cold War was the political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and U.S. dominated world affairs. |
| Briefly explain how the "Free Speech Movement" began at the University of Southern California at Berkeley? | Students who were told to move their efforts to raise money for things like the civil rights movement off campus, brought their tables back to campus. Jack Weinberg: arrested, 3,000 students gathered around the cop car; used it as a platform for 32 hrs |
| What was the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities? | Committee created by the Kennedy administration, headed by Vice President Johnson, that looked into discrimination in hiring. |
| What does the term "New Frontier" mean/ refer to? | One marking a westward expansion of pioneer settlement |
| What was the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the "Engle vs. Vitale" case? | They struck down a state-sponsored prayer in New York public schools |
| What was the "Bay of Pigs"? | A 1961 invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro rebels, backed by the Kennedy administration that was quickly defeated. |
| What was the Berlin Wall? | A substantive partition built by East Germany on instructions from the Soviet Union that cut off all travel between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. |
| Briefly explain the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, and Kennedy secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. |
| What does the term "Peace Corps" mean/ refer to? | A program launched by the Kennedy administration to recruit young idealistic Americans to spend 2 years abroad as volunteers working on education and development projects. |
| Who became president after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What does the term "Great Society" mean/ refer to? | The name Lyndon Johnson gave to his far-reaching domestic program, which included federal aid to education, medicare and medicaid health insurance, immigration reform, and before long, the Voting Rights Act |
| Who won the election of 1964? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 4. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do/ provide for? | Solved the first issue since it made it illegal for any segregated institution to receive federal aid. Banned segregation in public accommodations and the use of federal funds for any segregated institution. |
| Who was Quang Duc | A buddhist monk that burned himself to death to protest conditions |
| What was the purpose of the CIA - backed coup in Vietnam on November 1, 1963? | To help back up South Vietamese, from the North side that was trying to overthrow them. |
| What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? | Legislation passed by Congress in 1964 that allowed the United States to use force to protect U.S interests in Vietnam |
| How many U.S. troops were in Vietnam by April, 1965? | 50 thousand |
| What percentage of combat deaths in Vietnam were African Americans? | 24% |
| What happened on Tet | North Vietnamese and NLF forces attacked everywhere across South Vietnam, all at once. |
| What happened after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968? | Riots erupted all over America. Police arrested 20,000 people in 130 cities in the week following his death. 42 people were killed. |
| Who were Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale? | They founded the Black Panther Party for Defense in 1966. |
| . What happened during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, 1968? | Protests erupted inside and outside the convention hall. |
| Who won the election of 1968? | Richard M.Nixon |
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