1968 A Turbulent Year

1968 A Turbulent Year

Multiple Choice

What is Tet?

• a minority group in Vietnam

• The leader of South Vietnam

• The Vietnamese New Year

• The last French stronghold in Vietnam

Multiple Choice

The Tet offensive was important because it showed...

• The US could win if they Vietcong came out to fight

• The Vietcong were still launching attacks after 4 years of fighting against the US

• the South Vietnamese Government really knew how to throw a party

• America was close to winning the war

Multiple Choice

After Lyndon Johnson dropped out

of the 1968 Presidential race,

who was the only "HAWK"?

• Bobby Kennedy

• Eugene McCarthy

• George Wallace

• Hubert Humphrey

Multiple Choice

Where was the 1968 Democratic Nation Convention held?

• Cleveland, Ohio

• New York City, New York

• Greensboro Alabama

• Chicago Illinois

Multiple Choice

Bobby Kennedy did not win the 1968 election because ...

• of his anti war stance

• of his pro civil rights stance

• he was seen as a spoiled rich kid

• he was assassinated

Multiple Choice

Why was the two African American athletes raising the Black Power symbol at the Olympics such a big deal?

• They had won 1st & 3rd place

• It was in Mexico

• The whole world was watching

• It was the summer Olympics.

Multiple Choice

Which statement is correct

about the 1968 Presidential election?

• Bobby Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon

• Hubert Humphrey defeated Richard Nixon

• Richard Nixon defeated Eugene McCarthy

• Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey

Multiple Choice

In the 1968 election,

who ran as an independent candidate

on a platform of States Rights and Pro Segregation,

winning 45 electoral votes?

• George Wallace

• Hubert Humphrey

• Eugene McCarthy

• Bobby Kennedy

Poll

Who would you have voted for in the 1968 election? (think about why?)

• Bobby Kennedy

  (D)

• Eugene McCarthy

  (D)

• Hubert Humphrey

  (D)

• George Wallace

  (I)

• Richard Nixon (R)

Poll

Consider this possiblility,

if Bobby Kennedy was not assassinated in June of 1968,

he could have been the Democratic candidate

versus Richard Nixon the Republican candidate.

JFK had narrowly beaten Nixon in 1960,

what if RFK had to go against Nixon in 1968?

• Kennedy wins again!

• Nixon has his revenge!