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100

Who won the 1964 election?

Johnson

100
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?

A massive bombing campaign in North Vietnam

100
Which civil rights leader termed the phrase "by any means necessary"?

Malcolm X

100
The King assassination led to hundreds of riots across the U.S. and to the passing of what act?

Fair Housing Act of 1968

100

The role of the media in showing raw footage of the Vietnam War were part of what concept for American citizens?

Living Room War

200

Who won the 1968 election?

Nixon

200
What is the strategy of the Search and Destroy missions?

Strategy that sent U.S. troops out into the field to find and kill Viet Cong members.

200

Who is the civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize and supports peaceful protests?

MLK Jr.

200

What race riot was considered the first one of many, because a black teenager was killed by an off-duty police officer?

Harlem Riots

200

Booby traps that U.S. troops encountered caused physical but also ___________ damage.

psychological

300

True or False? The 1964 election was the first election to use negative advertisement. 

True

300
What was the name of the destroyer that was part of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

Maddox

300

Who assassinated Malcolm X?

3 members of the Nation of Islam.
300

What race riot led Johnson to form the Kerner Commission?

Detroit Riot

300

What anti-war protest on a college campus that led to four students being shot by the national guard?

Kent State Massacre

400

On March 31, 1968 President Johnson declared he wasn't running for?

Re-election

400

The Tet offensive was?

A coordinated series of N.V. attacks on more than 120 locations in South Vietnam.
400

MLK Jr. was assassinated at a motel in Memphis on what date?

April 4, 1968

400

What act was passed after the Selma Marches?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

400

Why was the My Lai Massacre significant is swaying public opinion against U.S. Soldiers?

They slaughtered hundreds of innocents villagers and the military covered it up for over a year.

500
What event had thousands of anti-war protestors and media being beaten by police acting under the Chicago Mayors orders?

1968 Democratic National Convention

500

How many Americans serving in Vietnam were drafted?

Two-thirds

500

What does SNCC stand for?

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
500

What was Freedom Summer?

A coalition of Civil Rights groups that were enlisting young volunteers for a voter registration campaign in Mississippi.

500

Vietnam War protests began on college campuses among what three groups?

Peace activists, leftist intellectuals, and hippies.