Domestic Policy & Civil Rights
This is the name of LBJ's domestic policy which emphasized aid to the poor and social welfare programs.
What is the Great Society?
This man assassinated John F. Kennedy (or at least was arrested for this crime).(doodoodoodoo -Twilight Zone music)
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
The role of this in the election of 1960 greatly aided JFK's favorability over Nixon.
What is the television?
This is the group of South Vietnamese communists who carried out guerilla warfare against American and South Vietnamese troops.
Who are the Viet Cong?
The 'massacre' of 4 students at this university in Ohio who were protesting the Vietnam war led to even greater calls against the US use of force.
What is Kent State?
This landmark legislation forbade ethnic segregation and discrimination in public places-no government contracts with discriminatory companies (discrimination in hiring practices). [Need year in answer]
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
James Earl Ray shot and killed this man while the latter individual was standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Effect: Waves of violence throughout black neighborhoods and many cities in the US
This WWII general served as president after Truman, from 1953 to 1961, He advocated a policy of containment and was responsible for creating the interstate highway system, St. Lawrence seaway, and adding Hawaii & Alaska to the union.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This route was used by the Viet Cong forces to move their supplies and goods across Vietnam and Laos.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This organization of oil exporting nations ordered an embargo on the American oil shipments due to our support of Israel. (We were dependent on them for 1/4 of our oil supply).
What is OPEC? (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
The 24th amendment ratified in 1964, forbade states to levy *these* (which were used in some areas to prohibit poor blacks from voting).
What is a poll tax?
This brother of a president was assassinated on DDay 1968 (June 6th 1968) by Sirhan Sirhan.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
This man served as President from 1969 to 1974 and was succeeded by his VP Gerald Ford.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The communist Vietnamese launched a major offensive during the celebration of this holiday, the lunar new year.
What is Tet?
This is the name of Nixon's policy which sought to ease tensions with the Soviet Union. This policy be seen through the 1972 SALT talks which was an agreement to limit nuclear weapons.
What is Detente?
This act ended long standing injustices in federal elections, allowing the government to check if states/localities were adding extra requirements to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This man then killed the man arrested for JFK's assassination.
Who is Jack Ruby? (mobster)
Gerald Ford is America's first ___________________ president.
What is unelected?
This resolution was passed by Congress, authorizing the president to use armed forces in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
Nixon opened diplomatic relations with this nation (give the country and leader) which hurt our ally, Taiwan.
What is Communist China under Mao Zedong?
This man led radical young blacks in the black power movement, and he emphasized violence as a way to advance black rights and status.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This man was assassinated in New York City in 1965, after denouncing racism of any kind. He was killed by the Nation of Islam group.
Who is Malcolm X?
Democrat and former VP, Lyndon Baynes Johnson won against this man, a conservative senator from Arizona, in 1964.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
This was Nixon's plan for gradual withdraw from Vietnam, in which he planned to return to simply aiding/supporting the South Vietnamese.
What is Vietnamization?
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger negotiated an end to fighting in this conflict but not a permanent peace.
What is the Yom Kippur War?