Exam 29: America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974

The chief legal counsel to the president, and the man who linked Richard Nixon to the Watergate cover-up, was John Mitchell.

The replacement of U.S. ground forces by South Vietnamese troops in the early 1970s was referred to officially as the ____________________ of the war.

The riot in Watts did not result in a loss of life.

____________________ assured President Lyndon Johnson that a determined U.S. effort in Vietnam would bring a clear-cut victory.

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg released the "Pentagon Papers," a top-secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, to the press.

Author Charles Murray hailed the war on poverty in his book Losing Ground.

Participatory democracy was the goal of the leftist ______________________________.

​Which of the following events most polarized public sentiment about the war in Vietnam?​

Lyndon Johnson secured passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by

Vietnamization refers to

The ____________________ of 1962 was the founding manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

Lyndon Johnson's policy in Vietnam

One of Johnson's Great Society initiatives, the Head Start program was designed to ​

Richard Nixon won a landslide victory in 1968.

Which of the following was not part of the "black power" crusade?

The Great Society was never controversial.

Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964 demoralized his conservative supporters.

Richard Nixon largely ignored the environmental movement.

In 1968, the ____________________, a coordinated attack on South Vietnam by National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese troops, shocked and confused the United States.

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that a state law that declared abortion a criminal offense violated a woman's right to privacy.