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AP unit 20 Barnette
Vietnam, LBJ Etc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was involved in the 1960 election? | Republican-Nixon and Democrat-Kennedy |
| What was significant about the 1960 election? | 1st televised Presidential Debates |
| Who became President after Kennedy was assassinated? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What political party was Johnson? | democrat |
| Who shot Kennedy? | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| What was the "Johnson treatment"? | Johnson would use his tall stature to intimidate people |
| What did LBJ declare war on? | Poverty |
| Whose agenda was called "The New Frontier"? | Kennedy |
| Whose agenda was called "The Great Society"? | LBJ |
| What did the Office of Economic Opportunity do? | Gave small businesses loans and provided work training |
| What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? | It created the Equal Emplooyment Opportunity Commission (can't NOT hire someone due to race, gender, religion...) |
| Who was Barry Goldwater? | Conservative Republican who ran for Presdient against LBJ in the 1964 election. VERY CONSERVATIVE |
| WHat did LBJ say that Goldwater would do? | LBJ said Goldwater would be quick to drop the bomb |
| What were some of the Domestic Programs under LBJ (you should know what these programs did as well) | Medicare ($ and medical care for elderly), Medicaid (for poor), Department of HOusing and Urban Development, Heart Start (preschool for low-income), Legal Services Program |
| Describe the arguments of people who were critical of the "Great Society" programs? | gave federal govt TOO much power over their personal lives, thought it would be the poor and elderly too lazy and not want to work anymore |
| Describe the arguments of people who were infavor of the "Great Society" | money was being spent on the wrong things- it was being spent on military, but it should be spend on the social issues. Said that people would rather "earn" their money |
| What president escalated our involvement in Vietnam? | Johnson |
| What president got us out of Vietnam? | Nixon |
| Who promised a "secret plan" for Vietnam? | Nixon |
| What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident? | a US destroyer, the Maddox, was fired upon by a North Vietnamese Ship. It was used by LBJ to justify the expansion of our involvement in Vietnam |
| What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? | Segregation is illegal in all public places |
| Who were the VC or the "CHarlie"? | Vietcong (communist/bad north vietnamese) |
| Who were the NVA? | North Vietnamese Army (also a bad guY) |
| Who was Ho Chi Mihn? | Leader of the North Vietnamese (bad guy) |
| Who was Ngo Dihn Diem? | Put into power in South Vietnam by the US and other allied forces. He turned out to be hated and we eventually allow him to be assassianted |
| What does DMZ mean? | Demilitarized zone (a buffer zone between two countries) |
| What was operation Ranchland? | used to defoliate 50% of South Vietnam |
| What are 2 chemicals used to burn through the Jungle Canopy? | Napalm and Agent Orange |
| What was Operation Rolling THunder? | Bombing of North Vietnam and South Vietnam Countryside |
| What is the "new" left? | very liberal democrats in the 1960s. An example would be the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
| What was SDS? | Students for a Democratic Society- grassroots group established on college campuses. Some segments were violent. All in protest of the War. |
| What was the Counterculture of the 1960s? | The "hippies" |
| Where were the hippies centered? | Haight-Ashbury portion of San Francisco |
| Who was a leader of the "Black Power"movement? | Malcolm X (Malcolm Little). |
| What was Malcolm X a member of? | Nation of Islam (Black Muslims). Sought to fight against discrimination by "all means necessary" even violence |
| Who were Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton? | Both were founding members of the Black Panther Party (armed and took to the streets) |
| What was the My Lai Massacre? | Civilian Vietnamese (women and children) were massacred in VIetnam by a ttack led by AMerican William Calley. |
| What happened at Kent State in 1970? | 4 students died while protesting the war. They were fired upon by the National Guard. |
| Name 5 things that happened in 1968? | Tet Offensive, Assassinations of MLKj and RFK, Democratic National Convention chaos and the election of 1968 (nixon wins) |
| What happened on Tet of 1968 (new years) | The NVA and VC launched attacks all across Vietnam. The US got pushed back and then eventually recovered. A psychological loss for the US |
| Who killed MLKj | James Earl Ray- a white man. This assassination caused riots |
| Where was MLKj shot? | balcony of his hotel in Memphis |
| Who was Sirhan Sirhan? | Robert Kennedy (potential Democratic Presidential nominee)'s assassin. Sirhan Sirhan was an Arab man made at RFKs attention to Israel |
| In what city was the 1968 DNC? | Chicago |
| Who was the pro-war Democratic nominee in 1968? | Hubert Humphrey (Johnson's VP) |
| Who was the "host" of the 1968 DNC? | Richard M. Daley- Chicago's Mayor |
| Who was George Wallace? | American Independent candidate in 1968. Split the democratic vote. (anti-integration) |
| Who was the first President to go to China? | Richard Nixon |
| Who signed SALT with the USSR? | Nixon |
| What did SALT do? | It limited the # of weapons that the US and USSR could have. |
| What is Vietnamization? | training the south Vietnamese to take over the war effort |
| WHat is Detente? | Nixon and his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, sought to ease the strain between the US and the Soviet Union |
| What is stagflation/ | unusual circumstance of HIGH unemployment and HIGH inflation (prices are high) |
| What was Watergate? | scandal involving Nixon. Watergate hotel was where the Democrats had their headquarters. Nixon had CREEP- the committee to re-elect the president, break-in. They got caught. |
| What does CREEP stand for? | Committee to Re-Elect the President |
| Who were Woodward and Bernstein? | The Washington Post reporters who uncovered the Watergate Scandal |
| Who was "Deep Throat"? | Woodward and Berstein's informant |
| What ends up happening to Nixon? | He resigned. First President in history. |
| Who became President after Nixon? | His VP- Gerald Ford |
| What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? | Basically a declaration of war on Vietnam made by Johnson |
| Who was Elijiah Muhummad? | The leader of the Black Muslims. |
| Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969? | EARL WARREN |
| Where did Nixon escalate the war in Indochina? | Cambodia (he bombed it) |
| Who was James Brown? | "Godfather of soul" singer who embraced the Black Power movement. |
| What was the Port Huron Statement? | It was the manifesto of the SDS. |
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