APUSH - Ch. 28 Quiz, Part 2

The easing of conflict between the US and USSR during the Nixon administration, which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern, such as arms control and trade.

• Détente

• Tet Offensive

• Vietnamization

• My Lai

The 1968 execution by US Army troops of nearly 500 people in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai, including a large number of women and children.

• My Lai

• Tet Offensive

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Battle of Saigon

Used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly assert their voices, in contrast to those involved in the antiwar, civil rights, and women’s movements.

• Silent Majority

• Nixon Underground

• Quiet Citizens

• Pro-War Movement

A two-day riot after the police raided the gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1969; the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.

• Stonewall Inn

• Harvey Milk

• National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights

• Greenwich Riot

Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong. A major turning point in the war, it exposed the credibility gap between official statements and the war’s reality, and it shook Americans’ confidence in the government.

• Tet Offensive

• My Lai

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident

• Battle of Saigon

A new US policy, devised under Nixon in the early 70s, of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly, but the killing in Vietnam continued.

• Vietnamization

• Détente

• Tet Offensive

• My Lai

The Supreme Court from 1953-1969, which expanded the Constitution’s promise of equality and civil rights. It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights, criminal rights, reproductive freedom, and separation of church and state.

• Warren Court

• Ginsberg Court

• O’Connor Court

• Thurgood Court

A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger, college-educated women fresh from the New Left, antiwar, and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.

• Women’s Liberation

• New Feminism

• Hyper-Feminism

• Feminist Liberation