Clep 1960 LBJ & Vietnam War
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| Why is the Tet Offensive considered the turning point of the Vietnam War? | show 🗑
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| show | It began on January 31, 1968
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| Who 'won' the Tet Offensive? | show 🗑
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| How was the Tet Offensive fought differently from previous battles? | show 🗑
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| show | They dug in their heels because they knew they could 'wait us out' until the war lost all support in the U.S.
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| show | The Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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| Why is the Gulf of Tonkin incident seen as exceptional? | show 🗑
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| When did the Gulf of Tonkin incident take place? | show 🗑
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| show | The National Liberation Front: the political unit organized by the Vietcong to overthrow the South Vietnamese government.
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| show | The National Liberation Front (NLF)
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| show | Civil Rights and the War on Poverty.
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| What two pieces of landmark legislation were passed during the Lyndon Johnson administration? | show 🗑
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| What is a general criticism of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty? | show 🗑
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| show | Economic Opportunity
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| The Economic Opportunity Act was the centerpiece of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, which was a major part of the ___legislative agenda. | show 🗑
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| show | government
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| Medicare and Medicaid were finally passed by Congress after almost 20 years of inaction under President____ . | show 🗑
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| Under President Lyndon Johnson, Medicare and Medicaid were passed in 1965 as part of his agenda____. | show 🗑
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| show | domestic
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| show | disadvantaged preschoolers
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| show | medical insurance
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| show | Harry Truman
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| show | Housing
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| The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created in 1965 under Johnson's admin. It is responsible for "programs concerned with the Nation's housing needs,___ opportunities, and improvement and development of the Nation's communities." | show 🗑
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| Under President Johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, creating the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate complaints of job ___ | show 🗑
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| show | desegregation
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| The 24th Amendment prohibited ___ in federal elections. | show 🗑
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| The 24th Amendment was ratified in 1964. In 1966, the Supreme Court ended up striking down the poll tax in all elections--not just ___ elections. | show 🗑
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| show | 15th
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| show | Gulf of Tonkin
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| show | declaration
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| show | triple
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| show | African-American
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| show | Muslim
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| show | Islam
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| In 1966, the militant Black Panther Party was formed advocating Black Power, and did not agree with the ___ philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.. Many of its members were armed and got into clashes with the police. | show 🗑
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| show | separatism , white
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| show | treaty
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| The American Indian movement was founded in 1968 as an organization of the Native American civil-rights movement. At that time, Native Americans had the highest ___ rate and lowest___ expectancy. | show 🗑
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| show | president
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| show | destroyers
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| The Tet Offensive is often considered the____ of the Vietnam War, where most Americans believed that the war was unwinnable, and President Johnson reduced American involvement. | show 🗑
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| show | five years
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| ___ in every home played a big role in turning public opinion against the Vietnam War. | show 🗑
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| show | horror
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| Middle-class college students were the driving force behind left-wing politics in the 1960s, with groups such as the ___calling for "participatory democracy." | show 🗑
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| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was established in 1960, but did not become well-known until the growth of the ____, where their anti-war demonstrations drew thousands of protestors. | show 🗑
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| show | Hippies
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| The Hippies rejected "shallow ___" and their parents' traditional values. They wanted a utopia founded on serenity from sex, drugs, and rock and roll. | show 🗑
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| Left-wing politics became a major pol. movement on college campuses across the U.S. in the 1960s. These student radicals were known as the ___ which was a term coined in their Port Huron Statement to distinguish them from the Left-wing of the Dem. Party. | show 🗑
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| The Port Huron statement called for students to establish "____," and coined the term "New Left" for this movement. The Students for a Democratic Society was the organizational base for the New Left political movement among college students. | show 🗑
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| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the organizational base for New Left politics spreading among college students in the ___s. | show 🗑
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| New Left politics was used to describe the student ____of the 1960s to distinguish them from the left-wing politics of the Democratic Party.Bottom of Form | show 🗑
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| The Free Speech Movement began in 1964 when the administration at the University of California at Berkeley tried to limit ___activity on campus. | show 🗑
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| The___Movement involved sit-ins, taking over college buildings, and other forms of non-violent protest. | show 🗑
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| show | confrontational
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| show | Harlem
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| Columbia University's decision to displace black housing to build a gym resulted in the largest student led revolt in which students occupied several campus buildings for ___. The event received national coverage and the gym plan was abandoned. | show 🗑
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| show | counterculture
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| Lyndon Johnson's primary purpose in establishing the Great Society was to ___. | show 🗑
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| show | Great Society
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| Which of the following was NOT one of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs? a. Medicaid b. VISTA c. Head Start d. Environmental Protection Agency e. Voting Rights Act | show 🗑
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| show | Woodstock Festival
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| The Woodstock Festival in 1969, held in __, was a large gathering of hippies to listen to music and use drugs. The police did not try to enforce drug laws. | show 🗑
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| The Feminine Mystique was a book published in 1963, and called for modern women to throw off their ___ and to find their own identities. | show 🗑
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| show | feminism
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| The National ___ was founded in 1966 to fight for women's issues, such as sexism in the workplace, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, etc.. | show 🗑
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| show | equality
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| show | Independent
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| The AIP nominated Alabama Governor George Wallace for president in 1968. Wallace campaigned against____programs and liberal politics. He supported lower taxes and victory in Vietnam. | show 🗑
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