1968
Which major political party's convention was held in Chicago in 1968, leading to widespread protests?
What is the Democratic Party?
What was the primary goal of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War?
What is to contain the spread of communism in Southeast Asia?
What event in 1972 contributed significantly to public distrust of the government?
What is the Watergate scandal?
What was Nixon's policy attempted to ease tensions with the Soviet Union and China?
What is detente?
What major foreign policy crisis occurred during Carter's presidency?
What military campaign, despite being a tactical defeat for North Vietnam, shifted public perception of the Vietnam War in the U.S.?
What is the Tet Offensive?
What significant military event escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1964?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
What was the effect of the Watergate scandal on Nixon's presidency?
What is he resigned from the presidency?
What domestic program did Nixon implement to address environmental concerns?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Who did Carter lose his reelection to?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Who won the presidential election in 1968?
Who is Richard Nixon?
What was the significance of the Pentagon Papers released in 1971?
What is they revealed the U.S. government's misleading information regarding the Vietnam War?
What term describes the difference between the government's perception of the Vietnam War compared to public perception of the Vietnam War?
What is the credibility gap?
What was the significance of Nixon's resignation in 1974?
What was the first time a U.S. president resigned from office?
What economic situation that combines high unemployment with high inflation reoccurred during the Carter presidency?
What is staglflation?
What TWO people were assassinated in 1968 that highlighted the perception that the United States was in chaos?
Who are Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What was the policy that would gradually withdraw U.S. troops and transfer responsibility for the war to South Vietnamese forces?
What is Vietnamization?
What made people question the government's honesty about the Vietnam War?
What did Gerald Ford do to help the nation move on from Nixon's resignation?
What is Ford pardoned Nixon?
What factor led the American people to elect a devout Baptist as president?
What is the Watergate scandal?
What was the name of the event where U.S. troops had raped and/or massacred hundreds of civilians?
What is the My Lai massacre?
What were THREE impacts of the Vietnam War on American society during the late 1960s and 1970s?
What are a decline of trust in government, mass protests, and a loss in the Cold War?
What is the living room war?
What law dramatically reduced the president’s ability to wage war without congressional consent?
What is the War Powers Resolution (Act)?
What term connected to stagflation is the simple addition of the unemployment rate to the inflation rate?
What is the misery index?