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