Question 1

The militant African-American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goal of peaceful integration was

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A)  Medgar Evers. 
B)  Malcolm X. 
C)  Fannie Lou Hamer. 
D)  Andrew Young. 
E)  Ralph Abernathy. 
A)  Medgar Evers. 
B)  Malcolm X. 
C)  Fannie Lou Hamer. 
D)  Andrew Young. 
E)  Ralph Abernathy.

Question 2

Why do you think President Johnson's Vietnam policy of "a fine-tuned, step-by-step increase in American force [that] would drive the enemy to defeat with a minimum loss of life on both sides" was unsuccessful? What hawkish and dovish policy alternatives did President Johnson possess in Vietnam? Which, if any, of these Vietnam policy alternatives likely would have been successful? Why would your selected Vietnam policy alternative have stood a reasonable probability of success?

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President Johnson's Vietnam policy was u

Question 3

How did the mainstream liberal Protestant churches lose cultural authority in the 1960s? Why were more conservative evangelical Protestants able to take their place?

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The mainstream liberal Protestant church

Question 4

The Supreme Court's Miranda and Escobedo decisions came under sharp attack from many conservatives because they

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A)  prohibited any official recognition of religion in public education. 
B)  guaranteed the rights of criminal suspects against mistreatment by the police. 
C)  overturned laws prohibiting unnatural sexual acts. 
D)  upheld laws requiring busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. 
E)  upheld laws prohibiting private property owners from polluting rivers and lakes. 
A)  prohibited any official recognition of religion in public education. 
B)  guaranteed the rights of criminal suspects against mistreatment by the police. 
C)  overturned laws prohibiting unnatural sexual acts. 
D)  upheld laws requiring busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. 
E)  upheld laws prohibiting private property owners from polluting rivers and lakes.

Question 5

Former Vice President Richard Nixon essentially won the 1968 presidential election by

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A)  promising to escalate the Vietnam War and win a decisive victory there. 
B)  repudiating Goldwater conservatives and running as a liberal Republican. 
C)  re-asserting the Republican party's historic commitment to civil rights and civil liberties. 
D)  arguing that the Vietnam War had been a mistake from the beginning. 
E)  exploiting Democratic divisions and appealing to moderately conservative law and order sentiment. 
A)  promising to escalate the Vietnam War and win a decisive victory there. 
B)  repudiating Goldwater conservatives and running as a liberal Republican. 
C)  re-asserting the Republican party's historic commitment to civil rights and civil liberties. 
D)  arguing that the Vietnam War had been a mistake from the beginning. 
E)  exploiting Democratic divisions and appealing to moderately conservative law and order sentiment.

Question 6

Results of the Cambodian incursion ordered by President Nixon in 1970 included

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A)  the killing of student demonstrators at Kent State University. 
B)  the elimination of Viet Cong bases in Cambodia. 
C)  the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution by the Senate. 
D)  a deepening of the division between prowar "hawks" and antiwar "doves." 
E)  Nixon's resignation of the presidency. 
A)  the killing of student demonstrators at Kent State University. 
B)  the elimination of Viet Cong bases in Cambodia. 
C)  the repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution by the Senate. 
D)  a deepening of the division between prowar "hawks" and antiwar "doves." 
E)  Nixon's resignation of the presidency.

Question 7

Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should

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A)  negotiate an immediate end to the Vietnam War. 
B)  withdraw U.S. troops to safe enclaves. 
C)  withdraw American forces from Vietnam. 
D)  escalate the bombing of North Vietnam. 
E)  continue the war in pursuit of an honorable peace. 
A)  negotiate an immediate end to the Vietnam War. 
B)  withdraw U.S. troops to safe enclaves. 
C)  withdraw American forces from Vietnam. 
D)  escalate the bombing of North Vietnam. 
E)  continue the war in pursuit of an honorable peace.

Question 8

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed

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A)  a long deadlock over the nomination of its presidential candidate. 
B)  a violent conflict between police and anti-war demonstrators outside the convention hall. 
C)  a walkout by hundreds of southern delegates, who then founded the Independent party. 
D)  the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy soon after he delivered a speech at the convention. 
E)  the enthusiastic nomination of Vice President Humphrey. 
A)  a long deadlock over the nomination of its presidential candidate. 
B)  a violent conflict between police and anti-war demonstrators outside the convention hall. 
C)  a walkout by hundreds of southern delegates, who then founded the Independent party. 
D)  the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy soon after he delivered a speech at the convention. 
E)  the enthusiastic nomination of Vice President Humphrey.

Question 9

Do you agree with the text authors that Martin Luther King, Jr., was "one of the most inspirational leaders in [American] history," who "left a shining legacy of racial progress"? Why or why not?

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Yes, I agree with the text authors that

Question 10

Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan

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A)  was a direct attack on affirmative action. 
B)  aimed at giving direct economic assistance to business. 
C)  attempted to counter the Supreme Court's opposition to affirmative action. 
D)  required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices. 
E)  aimed to renovate inner cities like those in Philadelphia. 
A)  was a direct attack on affirmative action. 
B)  aimed at giving direct economic assistance to business. 
C)  attempted to counter the Supreme Court's opposition to affirmative action. 
D)  required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices. 
E)  aimed to renovate inner cities like those in Philadelphia.

Question 11

The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that

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A)  America's Asian allies would have to fight their wars without large numbers of American troops. 
B)  the United States would supply only economic aid to its allies. 
C)  the United would make détente with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China its highest diplomatic priority. 
D)  all American allies must commit troops to fight communism if necessary. 
E)  the United States would maintain naval and air bases in East Asia but not send ground troops to fight on the Asian mainland. 
A)  America's Asian allies would have to fight their wars without large numbers of American troops. 
B)  the United States would supply only economic aid to its allies. 
C)  the United would make détente with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China its highest diplomatic priority. 
D)  all American allies must commit troops to fight communism if necessary. 
E)  the United States would maintain naval and air bases in East Asia but not send ground troops to fight on the Asian mainland.

Question 12

Why did so much of the idealistic youthful political movements and counterculture end in disillusionment and cynicism? Could those movements have taken a different turn under different circumstances, such as if President Johnson had concluded a peace treaty ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and if the political assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X during the 1960s had not occurred?

Accepted Answer

There are several reasons why so much of

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of Robert S. McNamara.

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Secretary of Defense who was p

Question 14

Which of the 1960s liberation movements were most significant and enduring? How did African Americans, young whites, Hispanics, workers, women, and gays each experience the 1960s differently? How were their respective experiences of the sixties reflected in their evolving attitudes about interpersonal relationships, life's priorities, moral values, and their individual attitudes and political views about America?

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The most significant and enduring libera

Question 15

The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized

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A)  the still-troubled racial situation in the South. 
B)  the rise of the Black Muslim movement in Los Angeles. 
C)  a more militant and confrontational phase of the Civil Rights movement. 
D)  the power of Martin Luther King in the black community. 
E)  the ineffectiveness of the Voting Rights Act. 
A)  the still-troubled racial situation in the South. 
B)  the rise of the Black Muslim movement in Los Angeles. 
C)  a more militant and confrontational phase of the Civil Rights movement. 
D)  the power of Martin Luther King in the black community. 
E)  the ineffectiveness of the Voting Rights Act.

Question 16

All of the following were created during Richard Nixon's presidency EXCEPT

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A)  the Environmental Protection Agency. 
B)  Supplemental Security Income for the blind, disabled, and indigent aged. 
C)  the Endangered Species Act. 
D)  the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. 
E)  the Medicare program. 
A)  the Environmental Protection Agency. 
B)  Supplemental Security Income for the blind, disabled, and indigent aged. 
C)  the Endangered Species Act. 
D)  the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. 
E)  the Medicare program.

Question 17

Explain how America's involvement in Vietnam "presented a grisly demonstration" of how "the doctrine of 'flexible response' ... contained lethal logic."

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America's involvement in Vietnam present

Question 18

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to

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A)  lead an invasion of Cambodia. 
B)  spy on domestic antiwar protestors. 
C)  infiltrate FBI headquarters. 
D)  help destabilize the government of Thailand. 
E)  protect prowar presidential candidates. 
A)  lead an invasion of Cambodia. 
B)  spy on domestic antiwar protestors. 
C)  infiltrate FBI headquarters. 
D)  help destabilize the government of Thailand. 
E)  protect prowar presidential candidates.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of Robert F. Kennedy.

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Senator from New York and brot

Question 20

Do you agree that the political protests in the United States and in Western Europe were partly fueled by the baby boom population bulge and the economic affluence of the times? Would there have been rebellions in the United States and in Western Europe even if the Vietnam War had not occurred?

Accepted Answer

Yes, I agree that the political protests

Exam 36: The Stormy Sixties

The militant African-American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goal of peaceful integration was

How did the mainstream liberal Protestant churches lose cultural authority in the 1960s? Why were more conservative evangelical Protestants able to take their place?

The Supreme Court's Miranda and Escobedo decisions came under sharp attack from many conservatives because they

Former Vice President Richard Nixon essentially won the 1968 presidential election by

Results of the Cambodian incursion ordered by President Nixon in 1970 included

Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed

Do you agree with the text authors that Martin Luther King, Jr., was "one of the most inspirational leaders in [American] history," who "left a shining legacy of racial progress"? Why or why not?

Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan

The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that

Identify and state the historical significance of Robert S. McNamara.

The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized

All of the following were created during Richard Nixon's presidency EXCEPT

Explain how America's involvement in Vietnam "presented a grisly demonstration" of how "the doctrine of 'flexible response' ... contained lethal logic."

During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to

Identify and state the historical significance of Robert F. Kennedy.

Do you agree that the political protests in the United States and in Western Europe were partly fueled by the baby boom population bulge and the economic affluence of the times? Would there have been rebellions in the United States and in Western Europe even if the Vietnam War had not occurred?

New World Beginnings

The Contest for North America

Settling the English Colonies

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

The Road to Revolution

America Secedes From the Empire

The Confederation and the Constitution

Launching the New Ship of State

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

The Rise of a Mass Democracy

Forging the National Economy

The Ferment of Reform and Culture

The South and the Slavery Controversy

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

Renewing the Sectional Struggle

Drifting Toward Disunion

Girding for War the North and the South

The Furnace of Civil War

The Ordeal of Reconstruction

The Industrial Era Dawns

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

America Moves to the City

The Conquest of the West

Rumbles of Discontent

Empire and Expansion

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War

American Life in the Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

America in World War II

The Cold War Begins

American Zenith

A Sea of Troubles

The Resurgence of Conservatism

America Confronts the Post Cold War Era

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