Conservatives
This candidate for president in 1968 was said to have come back from the “political grave.”
Nixon
Richard Nixon, a member of the House in 1950, is pictured participating in this, on p. 851.
Red Scare. Alger Hiss case.
This noun is often used as a metaphor for the LBJ administration’s experience leading an invasion of Vietnam.
Quagmire, 910.
This was an important event in the ‘sexual revolution,’ according to the textbook.
Stonewall rebellion, Mattachine society, ‘the pill’ of 1960. 912
Besides occasional lapses into violence, Black Power movements also called for objectives like this. “Separatist,” like Garvey.
“They emphasized African American distinctiveness, promoted “Afro” hairstyles and dress, shed their “white” names for new African identities, and demanded black studies programs in schools and universities.” Breakfast programs/welfare.“
The third-party candidate won 10 million votes in the 1968 election by supporting these two issues.
Atomic bombs for Vietnam, White Supremacy. 910. “Wallace had also resoundingly demonstrated the con- tinuing power of “populist” politics, which appealed to voters’ fears and resentments rather than to the better angels of their nature. His candidacy foreshadowed a coarsening of American political life that would take deep root in the ensuing decades.”
At the beginning of the summer of 1968, a divided Democratic Party was considering one these three candidates for the nomination.
E. McCarthy, R. Kennedy, H. Humphrey.
“We were wrong, terribly wrong,” this member of the administration would write, years later. Robert McNamara, 907.
Robert McNamara
This youth group fighting poverty famously transformed into a terrorist organization.
SDS, 912-13.
Some of the first sit-ins to surge across the south were implemented by these activists.
Freedom Riders, 896.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution had this effect on the executive branch.
Gave LBJ “war-declaring powers.” 901
According to the textbook, this politician was the most notable anti-war voice criticizing the LBJ administration.
Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas , Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. 907
Israel gained the West Bank as a result of these events.
The Six-Day War. (Lecture reference.) (How are these two questions thought to be connected? “The Middle East became an ever more dangerously packed powder keg that the war-plagued United States proved powerless to defuse.”)
Protests against authority flared up in places like this, during 1968.
Columbia, Paris, China, Prague/Czech
This was the biggest problem overshadowing LBJ’s domestic political agenda.
Violence, like riots. 906
“In your heart you know he’s right,” was a campaign slogan for this would-be national leader.
Barry Goldwater, 900.
This region of the country grew in population as Americans changed residences every year in record numbers, during the 1950s and 60s.
(834-835. Sunbelt: 15 states)
This was one of the Big Four legislative achievements of the Great Society program.
Aid to education, medical care for the elderly, immigration reform, voting rights bill.
The success of Sputnik spurred this federal project.
The moon landing, 890. Moon shot.
The first major college protests occurred here, in this year.
Berkeley, 1964. 911. What were they protesting? Free Speech Movement.
Reluctantly, Kennedy joined with MLK to work on this project, in 1963.
Voter Education Project, 897.
This was the rough number of troops LBJ committed to Vietnam during his presidential term.
165,000; 500,000.
These are two of the three “entitlements” that take up more federal dollars than any other program today.
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
This European leader was not happy with increased connections in the Atlantic community.
De Gaulle, 891-2.
This activity declined in the 1960s, from 48 percent to 41 percent.
Churchgoing, 911. What does that represent? Less respect for authority, according to the textbook.
Johnson would make this his signature issue, at least in domestic politics.
Poverty. Liberal! 900