InQuizitive Chapter 25
Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence describing the New Left.
What made the New Left new was that it spoke of loneliness in the face of bureaucratic institutions and a hunger for authenticity that affluence could not provide.
Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence describing the priorities of the president and vice president.
While Kennedy focused on the Cold War for most of his administration, Johnson focused on domestic reform.
Match the legislation to its correlating objectives.
abandoned the national-origins quota system of immigration- Hart-Celler Act outlawed the poll tax- 24th Amendment allowed federal officials to register voters- Voting Rights Act
Identify the statements that describe the War on Poverty.
attributed poverty to a lack of skills and lack of proper attitudes about work created the Office of Economic Opportunities, which oversaw initiatives to lift the poor into the social and economic mainstream
The counterculture was a youth movement that exposed the generation gap between the baby boomers and their parents. What were the values endorsed by the counterculture?
community/friendship hedonism/pleasure
Place the following events regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in chronological order.
1- A U-2 spy plane discovers Soviet missile silos in Cuba. 2- U.S. military advisors propose invasion of Cuba from Florida. 3-JFK orders quarantine of the Cuban island by the U.S. navy. 4- Soviets remove missiles from from Cuba; U.S. remove missiles from Turkey. 5-At American University, JFK calls for greater cooperation between the Cold War adversaries.
The shift from nonviolent protest to violent confrontation during the mid-1960s also had a geographic difference. The nonviolent protests took place in the South while the violent confrontations took place outside of the South. Place the locations of confrontations outside of the South in chronological order.
1- Harlem 2- Watts 3- Chicago 4- Detroit
The year 1968 had a profound impact on the psyche of the American spirit as one crisis after another made headlines. Place in chronological order the following events that signaled the symbolic and climactic end of the 1960s.
1- The Tet offensive shattered public confidence in Lyndon Johnson's administration. 2- Johnson announced he would not seek reelection after losing the New Hampshire primary. 3- Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis while supporting a garbage workers' strike.
Identify the statements that describe Freedom Summer of 1964.
A coalition of civil rights groups converged on Mississippi to register African-Americans to vote. The most infamous act of violence during the summer occurred near Philadelphia, Mississippi, when three college students were kidnapped and murdered.
By 1960, Kennedy's plan for Cuba had escalated from fanning a revolt to an amphibious landing by several hundred Cubans trained by the CIA in Guatemala. Identify the results of this planned expedition.
Cuba moved closer diplomatically and economically to the Soviet Union.
One of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UCLA was Ronald Reagan. His experience as a student leader of the movement gave Reagan the national exposure he needed to launch his political career.
False One of the key leaders of the movement was Mario Savio (pictured here) at the University of California, Berkeley, campus.
Roe v. Wade was a controversial Supreme Court case that ended the ban on marriage between races that had been the law since the colonial era.
False Roe v. Wade created a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, which extended the rights of sovereign individuals.
Malcolm X argued that African-Americans must control the political and economic resources of their communities. Identify the statements that describe Malcolm X.
He abandoned his last name to symbolize his break from his slave ancestry. His work left a legacy that is still recognized and honored today. His racial vitriol was severely lessened after a trip to Mecca in 1964.
The Great Society was the most sweeping attempt at social and economic adjustment by the federal government since the New Deal during the Great Depression. Which of the following provisions were part of the Great Society?
Medicare Head Start Food Stamp program
What social changes does NOW believe are necessary to enable women to enjoy equality and freedom?
NOW wanted more women to participate in the public sphere.
Match each of the following cities/towns with its significance to the civil rights movement.
Protesters attempted to march to the state capitol to demand voter registration fairness.- Selma The city in which A. Philip Randolph's march for "jobs and freedom" took place in August 1963.- Washington, D.C. Riots occurred here when James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi.- Oxford This city was known as the "citadel of -Birmingham
Which of the following people would most likely have supported the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater for president in 1964?
Ronald Reagan Pat Boone
As early as August 1963, members of Johnson's cabinet were discussing whether they should withdraw from Vietnam. Why did Johnson's advisors recommend staying in Indochina?
The advisors believed they could control the tide of Third World revolutions through intervention. The Truman administration was blamed for losing another Asian country, China, to communism, and it didn't want to experience the same fate. It was an example of Cold War geopolitics as usual.
What does it reveal about public reaction to the president's death?
The president's death captivated the nation. The shock of the president's death overshadowed the upcoming presidential election.
Identify the statements that describe the rise of Black Power.
The term was coined by Stokely Carmichael, the leader of SNCC, during a civil rights march. The idea of Black Power reflected the radicalization of young civil rights activists and an explosion of racial self-assertion. It proposed an agenda of electing more black officials and leading a revolutionary fight for freedoms.
The Kennedy administration is remembered for which of the following?
youthful glamour moral turpitude
