60's US History
The young Americans for freedom
Believed that the free market assured personal freedom
The Cuban missile crisis:
Brought the United States and the Soviets to the brink of nuclear war
The antiwar movement:
Challenged the foundations of Cold War thinking
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court:
Confirmed the obligation of police to inform arrested suspects of their rights before questioning
___ was the United States' main goal in Vietnam.
Containing the spread of communism.
Johnson's war on poverty included all of the following programs EXCEPT:
Head start
The Great Society:
Included Lyndon Johnson's crusade to end poverty In America
Twenty-fourth amendment
Outlawed the poll tax
Silent majority
Richard Nixon's voter base
___ enabled North Vietnam to send troops to South Vietnam.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following successes except:
The creation of the Peace Corps.
___ was/were most effective in convincing the American public that the war was not winnable.
The test offensive
Freedom summer
Voter registration drive
Radical feminists:
argued that " the personal is political"
The counterculture of the 1960s can best be described as:
rejection of mainstream values
The National Organization for Women (NOW) campaigned for all of the following EXCEPT:
An end to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision
Peace corps
Young American volunteers to help
By 1968, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam:
Exceeded half a million as the war became more brutal
Operation "Rolling Thunder" was the:
First sustained bombing of North Vietnam
After World War II, the United States aided ___ in its efforts to keep control of Vietnam.
France
New York Times v. Sullivan
Freedom of the press
The presidential candidate of the American Independent party in 1968 was:
George Wallace
Port Huron statement
SDS
Which event marked the turning point in the Vietnam conflict, forcing Lyndon Johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race.
The Tet offensive
Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to:
Those over age sixty-five
The legacies of the 1960s include:
a transformation in the status of women
Alliance for progress
abroad aid for Latin America
At the 1968 Miss America Beauty Pageant, feminist protesters threw all the following items into the "freedom trash can" EXCEPT:
birth-control pills.
The Roe V Wade Supreme Court decision:
created a woman's constitutional right to an abortion
In the 1960 Presidential race, John F. Kennedy:
promised to get the country "moving again"
One of the biggest legislative accomplishments of the Kennedy administration came in the field of:
Tariff reduction
Following the Cuban missile crisis, several steps were taken that eased Russian-American tensions. These included all of the following except:
A treaty that banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution:
Authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution:
Authorized the president to take whatever means were necessary to defend American forces and prevent further Communist aggression
Roe v. Wade
Protection of the right to abortion
The main purpose of the war powers across to ___.
Restrict the power of the president