Exam 38: The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

Why were the Peace Corps and the promise to "land a man on the moon by the end of this decade" both identified as key initiatives of the Kennedy administration? Were these two efforts more symbol than substance,or did they reflect important efforts to "get America moving again," as Kennedy had promised?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eugene McCarthy

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Operation Rolling Thunder

The Freedom Riders

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Peace Corps

Was Kennedy's confrontation with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis a brilliant demonstration of firmness without aggressiveness or a dangerous strategy that could easily have resulted in nuclear war?

The Alliance for Progress,which intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in Latin America,was

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

In what ways were the American political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s simply part of a worldwide uprising by affluent young people against traditional authority? Was there anything that made American protest unique compared with similar movements in France,Germany,Czechoslovakia,and other places?

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

How did the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960s alter American religion and values?

By 1972,public schools in the South were

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hubert H.Humphrey

In the final analysis,Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs

American military forces entered Vietnam in order to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -March on Washington

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Charles de Gaulle

John F.Kennedy's strategy of flexible response

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?

At the time of his death,President John Kennedy's civil rights bill