Exam 26: The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968

Senator Fulbright's public hearings on the Vietnam War ____________________.

Defend or refute the following statement by presidential adviser and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.: "In the end [counterinsurgency proved] a ghastly illusion. Its primary consequence was to keep alive the American belief in their capacity and right to intervene in foreign lands."

The Cuban missile crisis appears to have been most directly the outgrowth of ____________________.

America's reliance on such things as carpet bombing, napalm, and crop defoliants in the Vietnam War _____________________.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was marred by which of the following?

A beneficial effect of the Cuban missile crisis was ____________________.

Which of the following accurately restates the Kennedy administration's concept of counterinsurgency?

Which of the following is most consistent with the belief expressed by Stokely Carmichael in his 1966 call for Black Power?

In the late 1960s, the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco became a haven for ________________________.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ___________________.

President Kennedy responded to the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba by __________________.

Discuss the crises that jolted American society in 1968. What were the short-term and long-term consequences of these crises?

The race riots in 130 cities across America in April 1968 were precipitated by _____________________.

When John Kennedy first took office as President, his top priority was _________________.

Increased use of the birth-control pill in the 1960s was in some measure responsible for ____________________.

Which of the following is true of the presidential election of 1964?

John Kennedy promised extensive domestic reform. Explain why he was able to accomplish so little. Why was his image after his assassination so much brighter than it was when he was alive?

The Tet Offensive in Vietnam in January 1968 led to _______________________.

Which of the following is true of both the nation-building program and of counterinsurgency?

Which of the following is true of President Johnson's response to the August 1964 report that U.S. destroyers had been attacked twice by North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin?