Exam 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

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 with the Vietnam War and assassinations of the 1960s?

Barry Goldwater,the Republican party's 1964 presidential candidate,opposed

Former vice president Richard Nixon essentially won the 1968 presidential election by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -flexible response

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

Evaluate President Johnson's Great Society program.Do you think that its goals were realistic? admirable? Why did it receive such heavy support in Congress?

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Tet offensive

President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Civil Rights Act of 1964

The three P's that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are

When he took office in 1961,President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964,the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South became to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"rights revolution"

The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was

In the worldwide youthful protests of 1968,the movement in ____ succeeded in toppling the government,while the movement in ____ ended in harsh repression and failure.

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Richard M.Nixon

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Great Society

Why was Richard M.Nixon,with his "loser's image," able to win the presidential election of 1968? What issues and events worked to his advantage?