Vocabulary
This was a massive National Security Threat to the nation in the 1960s. Delt with a small country off the coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
When did the Vietnam War Start for the US?
What is 1961
This president was the first to get us involved economically in Vietnam?
Who is Eisenhower
This powerhouse concert took place in 1969 and definded an era of cultural changes
What is Woodstock
What is the Bay of Pigs
This was the court case that overturned Plessy v Fergusson and desegregated the schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
In the beginning of the war the US was acting in what way?
What is Military advisors
Backlash and protesting about his handling of the Vietnam War led too
What is President Johnson not seeking re-election, only serving one term
This became a popular slogan during the 1960s used to refer to their opinion on the wars the US had entered during the decade.
What is make love not war
This is the Court battle that limited free speech during WWI
Schneck v US
This was the movement to leave or fight against the current national culture
What is Counterculture
What is Agent Orange
This president was famous for setting the goal of sending the first man to land on the moon
Who is President Kennedy?
This is a common item that was becoming more and more accepted and used by the majority of Counterculture members.
What is Drug use
This place is well known as being the starting of the hippie movement
Where is San Francisco/Haight Ashbury
This was the foreign policy of the US during the Cold War
What is Containment.
What was LBJ's biggest contribution to the Vietnam War
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On November 3, 1969, President Nixon used this term in a televised speech on Vietnam to describe the "un-vocal" working- and middle-class Americans who he believed supported his policies, directly contrasting them with the "vocal minority" of antiwar protestors and counterculture activists
Who are the silent majority
This was an organization started by the major influence of the New Left.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society
This chemical compund was used in Vietnam and was used to burn combatants out of their postions
What is Napalm
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization
What was the most controversal item that college students protested in Vietnam?
What is the Draft?
In 1970, President Nixon ordered a secret, controversial expansion of the war by sending US and South Vietnamese troops into this neighboring country to destroy communist supply bases.
What is Cambodia?
This was the term used to describe members of the counterculture of the 1960s
Who are Hippies?
This is the plan by President Johnson to end poverty, reduce crime, and end inequality
What is the Great Society?