The Democratic Party fractured in 1968 in part due to his tragic death
Who is Bobby Kennedy
100
Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam with this
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
100
LBJ's domestic reform package was called
What is the Great Society
100
This was provoked by news that the US had been bombing Cambodia in 1970
What is the Kent State shooting
100
Nixon won the 1968 election in part because this happened to the Democratic Party
What is that it was fractured
200
Militant African American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr’s goal of peaceful integration
Who is Malcolm X
200
Sapping US military moral and government deceit were best exemplified when this tragedy was revealed
What is the My Lai Massacre
200
Name ONE agency that came into existence during Nixon's administration
What is the EPA, OSHA, or SSI
200
Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African American activists turned to this new cause
What is voting rights
200
In clear violation of their charter, LBJ ordered the CIA to spy on these people
Who are antiwar protestors
300
Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser
Who is Henry Kissinger
300
This major event, which happened in 1968, showed the American public that we were not winning the war
What is the Tet Offensive
300
This abolished immigration quotas
What is the Immigration Act of 1965
300
This symbolized a more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement - it also showed that discrimination was not exclusive to the South. It happened in 1965
What is the Watts riot
300
The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict these two groups
Who are the Israelis and Palestinians
400
Third party candidate in the 1968 election
Who is George Wallace
400
This called for a reorganization of the American Army in Vietnam into antiguerrila units and a gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese
What is Vietnamization
400
This required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices
What is the Philadelphia Plan
400
This movement emphasized African American distinctiveness, like the afro, and separatism
What is the Black Power movement
400
This outlawed poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment
500
This member of Congress was opposed to the Vietnam War and organized publicly televised hearings about it
Who is William Fulbright
500
These exposed the blunders and deceptions of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in pursuing American involvement in the Vietnam War
What are the Pentagon Papers
500
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did this
What is prohibited sexual discrimination
500
This organization, initially an antiwar group, became increasingly militant and radical
What is the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
500
This proclaimed that America’s Asian allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of US troops