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maxush-A Nation Divided
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The difference in what Americans were seeing and what the Johnson administration was saying about the war | Credibility gap |
| Members of faculty and students at the University of Michigan abandon classes, hold informal discussions about the war and their opposition to it | teach-in |
| Lowers the voting age to 18 | 26th Amendment |
| Wanted the US to withdraw from the war, majority after 1968 | Dove |
| 1) register within five days of 18th birthday 2) return local draft board questionnaire within 10 days 3) classified by local draft board 4) right to appeal 5) preinduction physical 6) draft board quotas 7) notification | Selective Service process (draft) |
| Conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had administration officials testify about war program, George Keenan argues Vietnam not strategically important | Educational Hearings |
| Believed the US should stay and fight in Vietnam, majority before 1968 | Hawks |
| 1A: available for service, 2S: service deferred; man enrolled in college, 3A: service deferred; man has children, 4A: exempt; completed military duty (2 years), 4F: disqualified for mental or physical reasons | Selective Service Classifications |
| American commander, in the US to provide status report, claims “there is a light at the end of the tunnel”, 1968 requests an additional 206,000 troops | Gen. William Westmoreland |
| LBJ’s Sec. of State, called to testify about US policies in Vietnam | Dean Rusk |
| Antiwar candidate,challenged LBJ, won 40% of the votes in the New Hampshire primary | Eugene McCarthy |
| Announces to the American people on March 31, 1968 he “will not seek nor accept the nomination of party for President” | LBJ |
| Republican candidate, known as the “peace with honor” candidate | Richard Nixon |
| Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan after winning the California primary, front runner for the Democratic nomination, America First candidate | Robert Kennedy |
| American Independent candidate, pro-war candidate | George Wallace |
| Democratic candidate, breaks with tradition and asks President to halt bombing of North Vietnam | Hubert Humphrey |
| Held in Chicago, violence breaks out, Hubert Humphrey emerges as candidate | Democratic National Convention |
| Students For A Democratic Society, student organization that organized a march on Washington, D.C. in 1965 and 1967 | SDS |
| Rep. Nixon 31,783,783 43.4% 301 Dem. Humphrey 31,271,839 42.7% 191 American Independent Wallace 9,901,118 13.5% 46 | 1968 Election Results |
| Jan. 30, 1968, Vietnamese New Year, traditionally a truce is honored, Vietcong and North Vietnamese launch attacks across South Vietnam, militarily a disaster for communists, proof the administration was wrong | Tet Offensive |
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