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This is the New Left series of programs that attempted to provide federal aid and support the poor and old in the 1960s.
What is the Great Society?
Provide three other factors that contributed to a rise in prices in the 1960s and 70s.
What are environmental regulations, spending on social programs, and the Arab Oil Embargo?
This is the name of communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam the rated by the North and other Second World allies.
Who are the Vietcong?
This is the name of the 1960 offensive by communist forces which, while unsuccessful, demonstrated little was being done in Vietnam to diminish enemy resources and morale.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This was the court case in 1973 that legalized abortion under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment and recognized an individual’s right to privacy.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
Provide three such programs (for the Great Society)
What are welfare, easier access to food stamps, and Medicare?
This was the name of the confrontation between the US and the USSR in 1962 that almost resulted in a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is the name of the Congressional resolution that allowed the president to operate the military in Vietnam.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
At which university did the Ohio State National Guard shoot unarmed student protesters?
What is Kent State?
This was the strategy used by Nixon to win conservative voters in the Sun Belt region by attacking federal incursion on state’s rights--specifically laws applied to protect civil rights.
What is the Southern Strategy?
This is the program that required a certain amount of ethnic diversity, most notably for minorities.
What is Affirmative Action?
Who was the president of the time during this crisis (Cuban Missile)?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This is the president that bombs the neutral nation of Cambodia in order to hinder communist supply lines to South Vietnam.
Who is Nixon?
This was Nixon’s Secretary of State who helped him establish direct contact and negotiation with the Soviet Union and China, thus ending (temporarily) a very tense and hostile standoff between the First World and the Second World.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
This was the term coined by Nixon to describe a large but quiet group of conservatives who would become increasingly frustrated with the rapid social and cultural changes implemented during the 1960s and 70s.
Who are the Silent Majority?
This is the term used to describe the unusual combination of inflation combined with unemployment.
What is stagflation?
This is the name of the Vietnamese nationalist who attempted to draw American support when opposing French Imperial forces after World War II.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
These are the name of missions in which American and South Vietnamese forces went, sometimes violently, one from village to village an effort to weed out guerrilla fighters.
What are seek and destroy missions?
This was the name of the first agreement between the Soviet Union United States which limited the number of nuclear weapons in the world.
What is SALT I?
This was a ‘hedonistic’ movement opposed by Nixon that was centered around individual freedom and opposition to war, capitalism, anti-drug laws, and sexual limitations.
What is the Hippie Movement?
Provide three new demographics that greatly increased the amount of available labor and 1960s and 70s.
What are immigrants after 1965, women, and minorities?
This was the capital of the government in South Vietnam that was supported by the United States for being anti-Communist.
What is Saigon?
This is the name of the massacre that you much media attention during the type of mission (seek and destroy) mentioned above
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This was the name for the period of time in 1970 when Cold War hostilities were reduced.
What is detente?
Despite being a Republican, this is the environmental department suggested by Richard Nixon to research, assess, and inform the government and public on environmental issues.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?