Question 1

Young adults' revolt against authority and middle-class respectability in the 1960s was exemplified by

Accepted Answer

A)  the New Left. 
B)  the Port Huron Statement. 
C)  the counterculture. 
D)  Young Americans for Freedom. 
A)  the New Left. 
B)  the Port Huron Statement. 
C)  the counterculture. 
D)  Young Americans for Freedom.

Question 2

What was the outcome of the U.S.withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and 1974?

Accepted Answer

A)  All of Southeast Asia fell to communism. 
B)  Vietnam became communist but remained an independent nation. 
C)  The USSR felt confident in making Vietnam a satellite government. 
D)  China took control over the new communist Vietnam. 
A)  All of Southeast Asia fell to communism. 
B)  Vietnam became communist but remained an independent nation. 
C)  The USSR felt confident in making Vietnam a satellite government. 
D)  China took control over the new communist Vietnam.

Question 3

The Immigration Act of 1965

Accepted Answer

A)  raised the quotas allocated to immigrant groups previously viewed as undesirable. 
B)  replaced the national quotas system of the 1920s with nondiscriminatory numerical limits. 
C)  allowed unrestricted immigration for everyone except Mexicans and Central Americans. 
D)  allowed unrestricted immigration from all regions of the world. 
A)  raised the quotas allocated to immigrant groups previously viewed as undesirable. 
B)  replaced the national quotas system of the 1920s with nondiscriminatory numerical limits. 
C)  allowed unrestricted immigration for everyone except Mexicans and Central Americans. 
D)  allowed unrestricted immigration from all regions of the world.

Question 4

How did the debates over civil liberties,particularly with respect to Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice Earl Warren,influence political life in the 1960s and 1970s?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

The Warren Court lasted from 1954 to 196

Question 5

Which of the following is paired correctly?

Accepted Answer

A)  Elementary and Secondary Education Act-federal funds for teacher training 
B)  National Endowment for the Humanities-college scholarships 
C)  Higher Education Act-end the quota system 
D)  Medical Care Act-federally funded medical insurance for artists and scholars 
A)  Elementary and Secondary Education Act-federal funds for teacher training 
B)  National Endowment for the Humanities-college scholarships 
C)  Higher Education Act-end the quota system 
D)  Medical Care Act-federally funded medical insurance for artists and scholars

Question 6

The 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City was a spontaneous protest led by

Accepted Answer

A)  the homeless. 
B)  gay people. 
C)  Catholic immigrants. 
D)  women liberationists. 
A)  the homeless. 
B)  gay people. 
C)  Catholic immigrants. 
D)  women liberationists.

Question 7

Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the election of 1972 signaled

Accepted Answer

A)  the end of the New Deal programs. 
B)  a major political realignment in the United States. 
C)  the defeat of the civil rights movement. 
D)  a shift away from the policies of the Cold War. 
A)  the end of the New Deal programs. 
B)  a major political realignment in the United States. 
C)  the defeat of the civil rights movement. 
D)  a shift away from the policies of the Cold War.

Question 8

Two of Nixon's greatest foreign policy successes were

Accepted Answer

A)  SALT I and restoring relations with Communist China. 
B)  invading Cambodia and Vietnamization. 
C)  détente and encouraging global human rights. 
D)  the Tet offensive and the China policy. 
A)  SALT I and restoring relations with Communist China. 
B)  invading Cambodia and Vietnamization. 
C)  détente and encouraging global human rights. 
D)  the Tet offensive and the China policy.

Question 9

Answer the following  questions :
-Vietnamization

Accepted Answer

A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state. 
A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state.

Question 10

What difficulties did the United States face in fighting a war against North Vietnam and the Vietcong in South Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Difficu

Question 11

Why did President Johnson suffer a "credibility gap" over Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Summary

Question 12

In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration,the expression "silent majority" was used to refer to

Accepted Answer

A)  Americans who secretly wished for withdrawal from Vietnam. 
B)  those who were too apathetic to vote. 
C)  southerners who supported the Vietnam War and white supremacy. 
D)  Americans who were hardworking and avoided protest activities. 
A)  Americans who secretly wished for withdrawal from Vietnam. 
B)  those who were too apathetic to vote. 
C)  southerners who supported the Vietnam War and white supremacy. 
D)  Americans who were hardworking and avoided protest activities.

Question 13

Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign for the presidency emphasized

Accepted Answer

A)  his longtime political commitment to fighting domestic communism. 
B)  a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans." 
C)  his southern background and frustrations with the black civil rights movement. 
D)  a strong commitment to continuing Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. 
A)  his longtime political commitment to fighting domestic communism. 
B)  a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans." 
C)  his southern background and frustrations with the black civil rights movement. 
D)  a strong commitment to continuing Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs.

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-silent majority

Accepted Answer

A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state. 
A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state.

Question 15

My Lai became a national issue in the United States in 1969 and was

Accepted Answer

A)  the site of an important battle in the Vietnam War. 
B)  the site of the massacre of nearly five hundred villagers by American soldiers. 
C)  the ancient capital of Vietnam and a center of Buddhist antiwar protest. 
D)  a town captured during the Tet offensive. 
A)  the site of an important battle in the Vietnam War. 
B)  the site of the massacre of nearly five hundred villagers by American soldiers. 
C)  the ancient capital of Vietnam and a center of Buddhist antiwar protest. 
D)  a town captured during the Tet offensive.

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Accepted Answer

A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state. 
A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state.

Question 17

Which of the following is true of Lyndon Johnson's administration?

Accepted Answer

A)  Despite his efforts,his controversial health-care plan did not pass through Congress. 
B)  His wife Lady Bird influenced him as much as Eleanor Roosevelt had influenced FDR. 
C)  The Vietnam War undermined his commitment to the War on Poverty and his presidency. 
D)  His appointments showed his commitment to the importance of gender and ethnic diversity. 
A)  Despite his efforts,his controversial health-care plan did not pass through Congress. 
B)  His wife Lady Bird influenced him as much as Eleanor Roosevelt had influenced FDR. 
C)  The Vietnam War undermined his commitment to the War on Poverty and his presidency. 
D)  His appointments showed his commitment to the importance of gender and ethnic diversity.

Question 18

How did the Vietnam War intersect with racial and ethnic nationalism by young African American and Chicano activists?

Accepted Answer

Among African Americans,the Bl

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-Equal Pay Act

Accepted Answer

A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state. 
A) President Lyndon B.Johnson's domestic program,which included civil rights legislation,antipoverty programs,government subsidy of medical care,federal aid to education,consumer protection,and aid to the arts and humanities. 
B) 1964 act that created a series of programs,including Head Start to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten and the Job Corps and Upward Bound to provide young people with training and employment,aimed at alleviating poverty and spurring economic growth in impoverished areas. 
C) A health plan for the elderly passed in 1965 and funded by a surcharge on Social Security payroll taxes. 
D) A health plan for the poor passed in 1965 and paid for by general tax revenues and administered by the states. 
E) Law that established the principle of equal pay for equal work.Trade union women were especially critical in pushing for,and winning,congressional passage of the law.
F)The title of an influential book written in 1963 by Betty Friedan critiquing the ideal whereby women were encouraged to confine themselves to roles within the domestic sphere.
G)Commission appointed by President Kennedy in 1961,which issued a 1963 report documenting job and educational discrimination.
H)Women's civil rights organization formed in 1966.Initially,the organization focused on eliminating gender discrimination in public institutions and the workplace,but by the 1970s it also embraced many of the issues raised by more radical feminists.
I)Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 in the wake of a naval confrontation in the body of water the resolution was named after between the United States and North Vietnam.It gave the president virtually unlimited authority in conducting the Vietnam War.The Senate terminated the resolution in 1970 following outrage over the U.S.invasion of Cambodia.
J)Massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam authorized by President Johnson in 1965;against expectations,it ended up hardening the will of the North Vietnamese to continue fighting.
K)An organization for social change founded by college students in 1960.
L)A 1962 manifesto by Students for a Democratic Society from its first national convention in a town of the same name in Michigan,expressing students' disillusionment with the nation's consumer culture and the gulf between rich and poor,as well as a rejection of Cold War foreign policy,including the war in Vietnam.
M)A term applied to radical students of the 1960s and 1970s,distinguishing their activism from the Old Left-the communists and socialists of the 1930s and 1940s,who tended to focus on economic and labor questions rather than cultural issues.
N)The largest student political organization in the country,whose conservative members defended free enterprise and supported the war in Vietnam.
O)Drafted by founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF),this manifesto outlined the group's principles and inspired young conservatives who would play important roles in the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
P)A culture embracing values or lifestyles opposing those of the mainstream culture.Became synonymous with hippies,people who opposed and rejected conventional standards of society and advocated extreme liberalism in their sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Q)Major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam in January 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong.A major turning point in the war,it exposed a credibility gap between official statements and the war's reality,and it shook Americans' confidence in the government.
R)A 1968 convention held in Chicago during which numerous antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall were tear-gassed and clubbed by police.Inside the convention hall,the delegates were bitterly divided over Vietnam.
S)Group founded by activist Latinos to protest the Vietnam War.
T)A new brand of feminism in the 1960s that attracted primarily younger,college-educated women fresh from the New Left,antiwar,and civil rights movements who sought to end to the denigration and exploitation of women.
U)A law passed by Congress in 1972 that broadened the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include educational institutions,prohibiting colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.By requiring comparable funding for sports programs,this law made women's athletics a real presence on college campuses.
V)A two-day riot by patrons of this establishment took place after the police raided the gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969;the event contributed to the rapid rise of a gay liberation movement.
W)Term derived from the title of a book by Ben J.Wattenberg and Richard Scammon (called The Real Majority)and used by Nixon in a 1969 speech to describe those who supported his positions but did not publicly raise their voices,in contrast to those involved in the antiwar,civil rights,and women's movements.
X)A new U.S.policy,devised under President Nixon in the early 1970s,of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War.American troop levels dropped and American casualties dropped correspondingly,but the killing in Vietnam continued.
Y)The 1968 execution by U.S.Army troops of nearly five hundred people in this South Vietnamese village,including a large number of women and children.
Z)The easing of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Nixon administration,which was achieved by focusing on issues of common concern,such as arms control and trade.
A
A) The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969),which expanded the Constitution's promise of equality and civil rights.It issued landmark decisions in the areas of civil rights,criminal rights,reproductive freedom,and separation of church and state.

Question 20

The 1963 report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women

Accepted Answer

A)  criticized President Kennedy for having appointed so few women to leadership positions. 
B)  documented discrimination against women in the workplace and in education. 
C)  appealed for women's reproductive freedom,including freedom to choose an abortion. 
D)  introduced the words feminism and sexism to the nation's vocabulary. 
A)  criticized President Kennedy for having appointed so few women to leadership positions. 
B)  documented discrimination against women in the workplace and in education. 
C)  appealed for women's reproductive freedom,including freedom to choose an abortion. 
D)  introduced the words feminism and sexism to the nation's vocabulary.

Exam 27: Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

Young adults' revolt against authority and middle-class respectability in the 1960s was exemplified by

What was the outcome of the U.S.withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and 1974?

The Immigration Act of 1965

How did the debates over civil liberties,particularly with respect to Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice Earl Warren,influence political life in the 1960s and 1970s? Answer Key

Which of the following is paired correctly?

The 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City was a spontaneous protest led by

Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the election of 1972 signaled

Two of Nixon's greatest foreign policy successes were

Answer the following questions : -Vietnamization

What difficulties did the United States face in fighting a war against North Vietnam and the Vietcong in South Vietnam?

Why did President Johnson suffer a "credibility gap" over Vietnam?

In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration,the expression "silent majority" was used to refer to

Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign for the presidency emphasized

Answer the following questions : -silent majority

My Lai became a national issue in the United States in 1969 and was

Answer the following questions : -Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Which of the following is true of Lyndon Johnson's administration?

How did the Vietnam War intersect with racial and ethnic nationalism by young African American and Chicano activists?

Answer the following questions : -Equal Pay Act

The 1963 report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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