Chapter 18-20

Which of the following statements about the civil rights movement up to the 1970s is not true?

All civil rights activists continued to believe that nonviolent protest was the best means to gain change.

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique, drawing the conclusion that many college-educated women felt trapped by domestic life, rather than fulfilled by it?

Betty Friedan

Which of the following facts about President Johnson is not true?

Johnson's advisors agreed that the best way to win the war in Vietnam would be to escalate the ground war.

Which of the following is one reason why the women's movement slowed down in the late 1970s?

Many working-class and nonwhite women felt that the movement offered little to address problems that they faced.

Many of the direct, nonviolent methods used to confront racism and discrimination were based on those of

Mohandas Gandhi.

U.S. troops on a search-and-destroy mission to find Vietcong fighters killed at least 450 women, children, and elderly men

My Lai massacre

Which of the following facts about Native Americans during the 1950s was not true?

Native Americans began a policy called termination to gain access to the economic wealth of the United States.

Which of the following is not an example of the growing "generation gap" between teenagers and young adults and their parents?

Older Americans were more likely to oppose the Vietnam War.

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18

Twenty-sixth Amendment

In both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the?:

United States fought for years without Congress ever declaring war.

The National Organization for Women was created?:

as a civil rights organization for women, working against sex discrimination in employment.

President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to?:

build up South Vietnamese forces to replace American troops.

The War Powers Act of 1973 was passed mainly in response to concern that presidents Johnson and Nixon?:

could involve the nation's armed forces in combat without congressional approval.

The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971?:

exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.

Sources of discomfort among youth during the decade of the 1960s included all of the following EXCEPT?:

failure of the Johnson administration to face the social and economic problems of the underclass.

The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among?:

gay Americans.

The 1968 Tet Offensive?:

led to the belief in the United States that the Vietnam War was unwinnable.

When James Meredith attempted to attend the University of Mississippi as that institution's first black student, President Kennedy?:

ordered federal marshals to protect and defend him and ultimately ordered 500 army troops onto the campus.

In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that?:

police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.

The Kennedy Administration's (1961-1963) response to the deteriorating military situation in Vietnam was

public support of the Diem regime

The invasion of Cambodia by U. S. and South Vietnamese forces int he spring of 1970?:

revived the domestic antiwar movement in the United States and led to large demonstrations.

President Lyndon Johnson received authorization for the use of force in Vietnam through?:

the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT?:

the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Which of the following is most consistent with the belief expressed by Stokely Carmichael in his 1966 call for "Black Power"?:

to be truly free from white oppression, blacks must control their own economic, political, and social institutions.

By 1964 what had become the major thrust of young African-American activists?:

voter registration drives in southern states.

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. This statement?:We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. This statement?:

was the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society.