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The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love and individual freedom.

• Counterculture

• Feminism

• Woodstock

• United Hippie Movement

A free music festival that attracted more that 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969.

• Counterculture

• Hippie Parade

• Woodstock

• La Raza Concerto

During the Mid- to Late-60s, what generation was entering their teen and college years?

• Baby boomers
• Greatest Generation
• Millenials
• Generation X

The counter culture movement was an extension of what earlier movement from the 50s?

• Beat Movement
• Conservative Coalition
• Flappers
• Lost Generation

What place in the United States was known as one of the main centers of counterculture thought & action?

• Woodstock

• Haight-Ashbury

• Seattle

• Los Angeles

In the 1960s and 1970s, Hispanic-American farm workers in the United States believed their employers were failing to provide reasonable wages and working conditions like those received by other American workers. For this reason, Hispanic-American farm workers…

• opposed passage of anti-discrimination laws.

• organized the United Farm Workers Association.

• encouraged farm producers to lower prices.

• urged the exportation of agricultural produce.

What are the programs that give preference to ethnic minorities and women in jobs or school admission to make up for past discrimination?

• Civil Rights

• Equal Protection Laws

• Quotas

• Affirmative Action

On January 22, 1964, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Secretary of Defense McNamara a memorandum that included the following recommendations:

o Assign responsibilities for the total US program in Vietnam to the US military commander

o Commit additional US forces, as necessary, in support of the combat action within South Vietnam

o Commit US forces, as necessary, in direct actions against North Vietnam

What happened as a direct result of these recommendations?

• North Vietnamese leaders appealed for a ceasefire.

• US military involvement in Vietnam escalated.

• South Vietnamese leaders rejected military assistance

• Soviet ground troops were deployed to Vietnam.

As part of the Nixon administration's policy of Vietnamization, the US military-

• trained South Vietnamese forces to take over combat responsibilities from US troops

• shared military technology with North Vietnam

• imposed martial law in North Vietnam

• installed a puppet government in South Vietnam

Select Features of the War Powers Resolution, 1973

o The President may only make use of armed forces following a declaration of war, authorization by Congress, or an attack on the United States.

o The President must consult with Congress regularly regarding the use of armed forces as long as troops remain in hostile situations.

o Within 90 days the President will end the use of armed forces unless Congress acts to approve continued military action,

How does this resolution demonstrate the principle of checks and balances?

• It expands the power of judicial review to military courts.

• It allows the executive to determine the length of military conflicts.

• It allows Congress to limit the military authority of the executive branch.

• It gives Congress oversight of military strategy and operations.