Movements
List three major movements of this era.
Civil Rights, anti war, and women's
What was used to justify increasing US involvement in the Vietnam war?
the Gulf of Tonkin incident
Describe containment.
Keeping communism from spreading to new countries abroad.
GI Bill- housing, ed
Discrimination
The song about ticky tacky criticized what?
surburbs and the conformity they represented
Give examples of different strategies used by the civil rights movement.
Sit-ins, boycotts, nonviolent marches, speeches, pushing for legislation, court challenges
T or F- Congress never officially declared war on Vietnam or Korea
True
What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
the Soviets putting missiles in Cuba
What was the goal of Johnson's Great Society?
eliminate poverty
What was the long term impact of Watergate?
declining trust in gov
In the 1960s, Supreme Court Rulings and the Civil Rights Act succeeded in making this illegal
segregation
What happened with the US public as a result of the Tet offensive?
support for the war decreased
McCarthy was popular for a time because of
widespread fear of Communism
What impact did the GI bill have on society?
More people went to college
More people could afford to buy a home
Growth of the white middle class
What is the military industrial complex and which president warned about it?
Collusion between the interests of the military and big business to increase spending on weapons
Eisenhower
By the late 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement was increasingly divided over this issue with these groups on opposing one another.
violence
Martin Luther King and the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee vs Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Black Power
What happened to South Vietnam as a result of Vietnamization?
Fell to the communist north
the Iron Curtain speech gave words to the start of what
the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the US
What was the impact of the Vietnam War on the Great Society?
made it hard to pay for
What were Dixiecrats against?
civil rights