APUSH - Ch. 28 Quiz, Part 1

Which of the following is not true about the Counter Culture movement of the 60s?

• It was intertwined with the New Left, and just as political.

• It had roots in the 1950s Beat culture of New York’s Greenwich Village.

• Popular music and the recreational use of drugs deepened the generational divide between young people and their elders.

• It rejected conformity of all kinds and placed rebellion and contrariness among its highest values.

Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the area, between the US and North Vietnam. It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War. The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outage over the US invasion of Cambodia.

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Saigon Resolution

• Tet Resolution

• Lam Son Resolution

_________ is a health plan for the poor, and _________ is a health plan for the elderly, both passed in 1965.

• Medicaid; Medicare

• Medicare; Medicaid

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Medicaid

• Medicare; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Women’s civil rights organization formed in 1966 by Betty Friedan and others, initially focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace, but by the 70s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

• National League of Women Voters

• Women’s Action Alliance

• ERAmerica

Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by LBJ in 1965; against expectations, it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.

• Operation Rolling Thunder

• Tet Offensive

• Battle of Saigon

• Operation Linebacker

A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) from its first national convention, expressing students’ disillusionment with the nation’s consumer culture, the gap between rich and poor, and a rejection of Cold War foreign policy, including the war in Vietnam.

• Port Huron Statement

• Sharon Statement

• Milwaukee Statement

• San Francisco Statement

Many college students were politically active during the Vietnam era. On the New Left side of the aisle was _________, and on the Conservative side of the aisle was _________.

• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

• Young Americans for Freedom (YAF); Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

• Anti-War Protesters; Radical Feminists

• Radical Feminists; Anti-War Protesters

An influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.

• The Feminine Mystique

• The Cult of Domesticity

• SCUM Manifesto

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings