The Great Society
Medicare gives health insurance to which demographic of Americans?
the elderly
When a person is arrested, the police officer must tell them their ___________ rights, named after this person who sued the state of Arizona when he was not made aware of his rights after being arrested.
Miranda
When this 7000-page document leaked to the Washington Post, Americans realized that the government had been withholding a lot of information (and sometimes lying) about their actions in Vietnam.
Pentagon Papers
Born in 1890, he led resistance to French rule in Vietnam, adopted communism in exile, and became the first leader of North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
The negative health effects of this herbicide are still being felt, both by people living in contaminated areas in Vietnam and by American veterans exposed to it during the war.
Agent Orange
Although there was never a declaration of war in Vietnam (and the president doesn't have power to declare war anyway), Johnson symbolically declared war on this, which was central to his vision of the Great Society
poverty
Loving v. Virginia struck down all state laws that banned this.
Interracial marriage
These are the avian nicknames of (a) people who supported the war and (b) people who were opposed to the war
(a) hawks (b) doves
The Ho Chi Minh Trail supplied these South Vietnamese rebels, who used guerilla warfare to fight Americans.
Vietcong
A major holiday in Vietnam, there was a ceasefire planned around this day. The Vietcong broke the ceasefire in a surprise attack that would change the tide of the war.
Tet
"Silent Spring," written by this author, marked the start of the American environmental movement
Rachel Carson
This case established the "one person, one vote" rule when establishing voting districts.
Baker v. Carr
Kent State and Jackson State
______________ stated that if one country fell to communism, more would follow in a kind of chain reaction. It was the rationalization for American involvement in Vietnam.
Domino Theory
The War Powers Act (1973) replaced this previous law, passed after the USS Maddox was attacked in 1964, which gave the president complete control over military action without any congressional consent.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Name one part of the world where immigration increased from following the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
Asia; Southern Europe; Eastern Europe; Africa; Latin America (acceptable)
Tinker v. Des Moines established that students have a right to protest in school under one condition. They may not cause a ____________.
Disruption
In 1960, Tom Hayden and Al Haber formed _______________, which would become a leading organ of the anti-war movement
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The Geneva Accords split Vietnam along this line. The North would be communist, the South capitalist
17th parallel
Pol Pot
In 1964, President Johnson signed the EOA into law. One of the most important laws of the Great Society, it allocated billions of dollars for youth programs, job training, small business loans, and other anti-poverty measures. What does EOA stand for?
Economic Opportunity Act
When Cleveland police raided Dollree Mapp's home, they arrested her for possession of illegal items. The charges were dropped in Mapp v. Ohio, though, because the police did not have a warrant to search for those materials. What were the police actually looking for in Mapp's boardinghouse?
The suspect in a violent crime, who was suspected of staying in Mapp's boardinghouse.
In 1971, this amendment was passed, lowering the voting age to 18 in response to protester's demands that "if I'm old enough to fight, I'm old enough to vote."
26th Amendment
Dien Bien Phu
To bring the war to its end, Nixon advocated for a process of _____________, in which ARVN troops would take more responsibility as American troops withdrew.
Vietnamization