The Age of Camelot
Why did the U.S. government support the fighting in the Bay of Pigs in April 1961?
2. to overthrow a communist leader
What is Barry Goldwater remembered for today?
1. Winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote
2. Running the "Daisy" ad during the 1964 election
3. Inspiring the modern conservative movement
4. Promising to increase the size of the federal government
3. Inspiring the modern conservative movement
Wartime expenses led to a reduction of the social welfare programs of President Johnson's "Great Society".
What were the names of these programs?
Hint: There's three!
Job Corps
Head Start
VISTA
This very powerful herbicide was prayed from planes to kill trees and crops, stripping away the jungle that Viet Cong forces used for cover.
Agent Orange
In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon eased tensions with the Soviet Union through which policy?
1. détente
Why were nuclear missiles in Cuba a major concern for the United States?
2. The missiles could easily reach the United States.
Look at the following list of federal programs created under President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s and answer the question below.
Which characteristic is shared by these programs?
2. They were all designed to reduce poverty.
This was a major surprise attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in 1968 during the Vietnam War. It shocked Americans and showed the enemy was stronger than expected, leading to less support for the war.
Tet Offensive
This person was a U.S. diplomat and political advisor who served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon.
Dr. Henry Kissinger
How did President Richard M. Nixon change U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War?
4. by opening relations with China
Cape Canaveral has played an important role in the history of Florida due to its association with which of the following?
2. the development of NASA and the space program
Read the excerpt below from President Johnson’s message urging Congress to pass a bill in 1965, and answer the following question.
For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.
Which result best demonstrates the success of this bill?
3. an increase in regular participation of African American voters
This resolution, passed by Congress in 1964, gave President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to expand the U.S. role in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This was the U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War to gradually withdraw American troops and transfer combat responsibility to South Vietnamese forces.
Vietnamization
Which events of the 1970s contributed to widespread mistrust of the U.S. government by American citizens?
2. Watergate scandal and Vietnam War
In the early 1960s, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev each expressed deep concern about the strength of their respective nations' nuclear arms forces. This concern led them to complete the first arms control agreement of the Cold War, the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
Which decision produced a similar relaxing of tension between the superpowers during the Cold War?
President Dwight Eisenhower's decision to support the Domino Theory
President Richard Nixon's decision to visit the People's Republic of China
3. President Richard Nixon's decision to visit the People's Republic of China
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is the difference between the New Deal and The Great Society?
The New Deal was about economic survival and recovery.
The Great Society was about expanding social justice and improving quality of life, especially in the context of civil rights.
In 1967, this person condemned the administration’s Vietnam policy as unconscionable use of violence and for draining resources from needs at home. At this point, he was the most prominent American to speak out against the war.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which of the following was the biggest contributing factor to President Johnson’s decision not to seek re-election to a second term?
3. the Vietnam War
In his speech, Nixon said, “Not one cent of the $18,000 or any other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. Every penny of it was used to pay for political expenses that I did not think should be charged to the taxpayers of the United States.” But, he did confess to accepting one personal gift: this.
Dog that he named Checkers
Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. . . .
Why was the success of President Kennedy's policy important to the United States in 1962?
3. It would symbolize a significant advance over an adversary during the Cold War.
This 1961 Supreme Court Case established that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment could not be used in state courts, applying the exclusionary rule to the states.
Mapp v. Ohio
Read the following excerpt from a 1964 U.S. Congressional resolution and answer the question below.
. . . Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent any further aggression.
Which phrase best describes the way both President Lyndon Johnson and President Richard Nixon used this resolution?
2. to justify increased bombing and troop escalation in Vietnam
This person was a dedicated revolutionary that led an underground struggle against the Japanese in WWII. Later, after the fall of South Vietnam, the capital of Saigon was renamed after him.
Ho Chi Minh
What principle did the Watergate scandal and the case of United States v. Nixon affirm?
4. No person is above the rule of law in the United States.