1968-1991 AP US

This president created the Great Society Programs, the War on Poverty, but his domestic efforts in the 1960s were derailed because he also used the Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution to send the first US combat troops to South Vietnam.

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon Johnson

• George Bush Sr.

These two leaders were both assassinated in 1968. One was a famous Civil Rights leader. The other was running for president after LBJ announced he would not seek re-election. His brother had also been assassinated back in 1963.

• Ronald Reagan

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

Answer explanation

MLK was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. RFK was shot and killed in a hotel kitchen after having just won the California primary. He was shot by an Arab named Sirhan Sirhan who did not like Kennedy's support for Israel.

Which 1960s movement is incorrectly matched to the group/cause

• The Feminine Mystique/NOW - The Feminist Movement

• SDS - The Port Huron Statement

• Counterculture Movement - rejection of materialism/conformity

• The Stonewall Riot - Civil Rights

Answer explanation

The Stonewall riots sparked the Gay Liberation Movement.

President Richard Nixon promised "Peace with Honor" when he was elected president in 1968. His plan to gradually withdraw U.S. troops from South Vietnam was called

• Detente

• Prohibition

• Vietnamization

Answer explanation

Vietnamization meant withdrawing US troops and slowly handing over the war effort to the South Vietnamese Army. This lasted from 1969-1973.

Protest at Kent State and other colleges erupted in May 1970 after President Nixon announced that he was

• overturning Civil Rights Act from the previous administration

• cutting back on social programs like welfare

• sending U.S. combat troops in Cambodia, which neighbored South Vietnam.

Answer explanation

Nixon sending troops into Cambodia was seen as a betrayal of his Vietnamization plan. After the Lottery draft was set up, college students were particularly alarmed by this.

In 1971, supporters of this group seized control of Alcatraz island to protest unfair treatment. The takeover lasted 19 long months.

• AIM - American Indian Movement

• NOW - National Organization for Women

• UFW - United Farm Workers

The last US combat troops left South Vietnam in 1973. What then happened to South Vietnam in 1975?

• Saigon fell and South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam

• South Vietnam won its independence from the North

• South Vietnam and North Vietnam remained separated permanently.

Answer explanation

the picture shows the evacuation of South Vietnamese from the roof of the U.S. embassy the day before Saigon fell. The US rescued thousands of endangered South Vietnamese, but many were left behind.

This top secret document was leaked to the NY Times and published in 1971. It revealed how the public had been lied to and deceived about the Vietnam War.

• The Pentagon Papers

• The Zimmerman Files

• The Watergate Tapes

President Richard Nixon visited this communist country in 1972 and met with Mao Zedong.

• North Korea

• Japan

• China

President Nixon signed this nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union in 1972.

• The INF treaty

• The Treaty of Versailles

• the SALT treaty

Answer explanation

The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks led to the SALT treaty.