Exam 29: America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

The Great Society proved a failure from the perspective of political viability.

Lyndon Johnson received conflicting advice from his advisers about whether to escalate American involvement in Vietnam.

Banning sexual discrimination in higher education,which resulted in the legal basis for requiring colleges and universities to adopt gender equity in intercollegiate athletics was possible because of ____________________.

The congressional act that was tantamount to a declaration of war against North Vietnam was the

The "New Left" organization that launched its political efforts in 1962 with the Port Huron Statement was the

Increasingly the role of the media has been a factor in the civil rights movement and riots.

Johnson's Great Society was criticized for all of the following reasons except

The North Vietnamese military attack of 1968 that destroyed the myth of American progress in Vietnam was the

Richard Nixon clearly won the election of ____________________.

The ironic acronym of ____________________ stood for the committee separate from the Republican Party which raised money for Nixon's campaign.

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

President Gerald Ford offered Nixon an ____________________.

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Civil Rights Act (1964)

The Republican nominee for the presidency in 1964 was

The most emotional rights-related cases of the Warren Court involved

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

In the 1964 presidential campaign,Senator Barry Goldwater

Richard Nixon largely ignored the environmental movement.

The president most associated with the "war on poverty" was ____________________.