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

Examine the reasons for the U.S. escalation of the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.

The first Earth Day was held in ____________________.

The Nixon administration's devaluation of the U.S. dollar in 1973 had little impact on the deterioration of U.S. trade balances.

The "Great Society" usually is associated with the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

The most publicly controversial rights-related cases of the Warren Court involved

The counterculture of the 1960s was centered in Los Angeles.

The campaign of sustained bombing launched by Lyndon Johnson against North Vietnam in 1964 was known as

The protests at Kent State University and Jackson State College were touched off by the expansion of the war in Southeast Asia into Cambodia.

Medicare and Medicaid were curtailed during the Nixon administration.

The Khmer Rouge established a free and democratic government in Cambodia.

Describe the significance of the year 1968 to American social and political history.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 dealt with voting rights.

Which of the following was true of Lyndon Johnson?

The counterculture and the new Left were the same group of people.

Breaking into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist was the first "dirty trick" perpetrated by Richard Nixon's plumbers.

____________________ headed the South Vietnamese government when U.S. troops pulled out.

The simultaneous increase in both inflation and unemployment, which economists called "stagflation," defied conventional economic thinking.

The ____________________ allowed LBJ to increase our involvement in Vietnam and appear moderate at the same time.

According to a special commission report after the violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the event was a "police riot."

Lyndon Johnson's policies expanded the size, role, and power of the federal government at home and abroad.