1965-1968
How many Americans lived below the poverty line?
40 millions.
How many students ended up killed in this protest?
4 students shot by National Guard troops.
When did U.S. started helping South Vietnman?
They have been helping 1955.
Which is the first president to visit China?
Nixon.
What was Nixon's goals in visiting China?
To build detent with China.
To win China's friendship before Russia does.
What drug became very popular in the counter culture?
LSD
What caused the students protesting?
Because of President Nixon's bombing of Cambodia.
South Vietnam
What detente means?
Lessening bad feelings between countries.
Learning to work together.
What was China goals with Nixon visit?
To get U.S. to leave Taiwan so china can have it.
Win U.S. friendship before Russia does.
Who is elected as POTUS in 1968?
Richard Nixon
What was Nixon promise about the Vietnam War?
Nixon said that he would take U.S. out of Vietnam.
What the cease-fire agreement says?
North Vietnam's troops can stay in South Vietnam.
U.S. troops will leave, but they will keep sending money and weapons to South Vietnam.
What Nixon and his Secretary of State used to build detente?
Personal diplomacy.
MLK
What those young people did as form of protest?
They burned their draft cards and became draft dodgers.
What it was the Tolkin Gulf Resolution?
This resolution gave President Johnson the power to send whatever he thought was needed to win the war in Vietnam.
What treaty USSR and US leaders signed?
SALT I Treaty
Why Arab countries didn't sell oil to U.S.?
Because U.S. supported Israel.
How did the birth control pill impact the women's movement in America?
It gave women their sexual freedom.
What was called the people against the Vietnam War and those for the war?
How much troops President Johnson escalated to the war?
He sent over 500,000 troops to Vietnam.
Both countries can only shot ABMs (Anti-Ballistic Missiles) from two places.
What are some of the Warren Court rulings?
Schools must be desegregated.
Poor people must be given a lawyer if they cannot pay for one.
People do not have to testify against themselves in court, based on the 5th Amendment.