The 1960s (Final Study Guide)

The 1960s (Final Study Guide)

Multiple Choice

Who won the election of 1960?

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)

Multiple Choice

What was the name of Kennedy's plan to improve America's health care system, increase foreign aide, and promote civil rights?

• The Final Frontier

• The New Frontier

• The Old Frontier

• The New Deal

Open Ended

List 3 major Supreme Court Cases heard by the Warren Court AND their impact on civil rights legislation (laws):

Multiple Choice

What was an organization created by JFK that sent young people out on humanitarian efforts in poverty stricken countries?

• Job Corps

• Freedom Riders

• Peace Corps

• New Frontier

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the mission in which the US landed on the moon (July of 1969)?

• Apollo 11

• Apollo 13

• Gemini

• Sputnik

Multiple Choice

Who was the first man on the moon?

• Buzz Aldrin

• Michael Collins

• Yuri Gagarin

• Neil Armstrong

Open Ended

How did the Space Race reflect the Cold War relationship of the US & SU?

Multiple Choice

Who became the new leader of the Soviet Union by the 1960s?

• Nikita Khruschev

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Yuri Gagarin

Multiple Choice

What was built by the Soviets in 1961 to divide non-communist W. Berlin from communist E. Berlin? It stood as a symbol of the division of the Cold War until it was torn down in 1989.

• The Iron Curtain

• The Great Wall

• The Berlin Wall

• The Soviet Wall

Multiple Choice

What nation (90 miles away from the US) allowed the Soviets to place long range nuclear missiles on their land and aim them at the US?

• Mexico

• Cuba

• Canada

• Soviet Union

Open Ended

Summarize what happened with the Cuban Missile Crisis (ex. what started it? major events? how did it end?):

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What event was the closest the US and SU ever got to nuclear war with each other?

Multiple Choice

Who assassinated JFK?

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• James Earl Ray

• Elijah Mohammed

• Nikita Khruschev

Multiple Choice

Who was sworn in as the new president after JFK was killed?

• LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson)

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Jackie Kennedy

Multiple Choice

Who won the election of 1964 by a near landslide?

• LBJ

• Barry Goldwater

• Richard Nixon

Multiple Choice

What was the name of social reform programs created under the Johnson administration?

• The New Frontier

• The Great Frontier

• The Great Society

• The New Society

Open Ended

What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?

Open Ended

DESCRIBE 3 Great Society programs and what they accomplished:

Multiple Choice

Which option fills in the blanks correctly?

__________ controlled Vietnam during the 1800s and early 1900s. Then _________ took over during WWII. ___________ organized a communist/nationalist group to overthrow the Japanese. The _______ helped Ho Chi Minh defeat the Japanese after WWII. ___________ comes back in to regain control over Vietnam after WWII and asks the _______ to help fight Ho Chi Minh.

• France, Japan, Ho Chi Minh, US, France, US

• France, US, Ho Chi Minh, France, Japan

• Japan, France, The US, French, Japan, US

Multiple Choice

Who organized a Vietnamese communist/nationalist group to overthrow Japan's control in Vietnam?

• The US

• Ho Chi Minh

• France

• Ngo Dinh Diem

Multiple Choice

What was the decision made with the Geneva Accords?

• Ho Chi Minh's communist regime gets southern 1/2 of Vietnam; Pro-western regime gets northern 1/2 of Vietnam (divided along 17th parallel)

• Ho Chi Minh's communist regime gets northern 1/2 of Vietnam; Pro-Western regime gets southern 1/2 (divided along 17th parallel)

• Ho Chi Minh's communist regime gets northern 1/2 of Vietnam; Pro-Western regime gets southern 1/2 (divided along 38th parallel)

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What was the name of the guerilla army that Ho Chi Minh put together to try to take over S. Vietnam?

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What authorized President to take all necessary measures to stop any further attack by N Vietnam after two American ships were attacked by N. Vietnamese forces?

Multiple Choice

What event pulled the US further into the Vietnam War (to the point of sending in troops) in 1964?

• Geneva Accords

• Ho Chi Minh invasion of S. Vietnam

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

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The Vietcong did not have enough supplies or technology to fight the US using traditional battle tactics. So they had to resort to different methods of fighting that US soldiers were not used to. Give one example of a different style of fighting done by the Vietcong:

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The US had to fight the Vietcong in dense jungles where the Vietcong had several hiding places for ambushes and traps. Because of this, the US had to fight back in different ways. List one example of a new fighting tactic or weapon the US used in the Vietnam War:

Multiple Choice

What event proved that the Vietcong were not going to give up and the Vietnam War was likely to end in a stalemate?

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• Geneva Accords

Multiple Choice

Why were most of the men drafted to fight in the Vietnam War African American or from poverty?

• There was a law against wealthy white men fighting in any foreign war.

• The fathers of the wealthy white young men bribed politicians to keep their sons out of the war.

• College kept many young men from being drafted and African American men and poor white men typically couldn't afford college.

Multiple Choice

Who won the election of 1968?

• Hubert Humphrey

• Lyndon Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Robert Kennedy

Multiple Choice

What was Woodstock?

• A hippie commune

• a massive concert/festival of the youth movement

• a protest to the Vietnam War

• a political rally in support of Richard Nixon

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was a famous folk rock singer who was one of the most popular voices of the youth movement. His songs were mostly social commentary songs against war, poverty, inequality, etc.

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A hippie was an example of the newly emerging

in the 60’s that represented a rebellion against the dominant culture in the US. (rejection of Western Civilization, rationality, order, middle class values).

Multiple Choice

What organization emerged in the 1960s and fought for women's rights and equality?

• SCLC

• NAACP

• Black Panthers

• NOW