Exam 37: The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

What were essential goals of the Nixon-Kissinger policy of détente with the Soviet Union and China? Did the policy achieve its essential goals? If not, why did détente fail to achieve its essential goals? If so, what were the keys to détente achieving its critical goals?

Richard Nixon's legislation guaranteeing that Social Security raises would be indexed to guarantee against inflation

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Viet Cong

The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Warren Burger

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Miranda decision/Miranda warnings

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed

Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their

Despite his political skills and foreign policy knowledge, Richard Nixon harbored deep and bitter resentments against

By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the North focused their attention primarily on

What was the political impetus for the War Powers Act? Do you think that the War Powers Act unduly restricted the ability of the president to conduct foreign affairs and act as commander-in-chief? Do you believe the law is unconstitutional? Why or why not?

Some advocates of Black Power, recollecting the black nationalist movement of the Marcus Garvey, made the movement the basis for

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"hawks" and "doves"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Pentagon Papers

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Michael Harrington

President Nixon's 1970 invasion of Cambodia led to

Some historians argue that only a staunch anticommunist like Richard Nixon could have softened the once-bitter American relations with Communist China. Is this view accurate?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Medicare and Medicaid

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Robert F. Kennedy