LBJ and The Great Society
What is the Great Society?
LBJ's war against racial inequality and economic inequality.
What was the name of pro communist uprising group in South Vietnam?
Viet Cong
What is the organization of students fighting for participatory democracy?
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
What is the name of the movement for Indian freedom?
Red Power Movement
What is Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare: Provided funds for Old people's health
Medicaid: Provided funds for poor people's health
Under what larger conflict was the Vietnam War apart of?
The Cold War
What incited the formation of the SDS?
UC Berkley's banning of political speech and demonstrations on campus.
What is the name of the book that inspired the new enviromentalism movement and what id it critique?
The Silent Spring, Critiqued pesticides.
What is the Open Housing Act and why did it fail?
Prohibited discrimination in the sale of rental homes and apartments. It failed because it was weakly enforced.
What resolution by congress is commonly referred to as a blank check for LBJ.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What organization where the Yippies apart of?
Youth international party.
What book did the first president of NOW write?
The Feminine Mystique
What is the Job Corps and why was it not successful.
Established to give skills to poorer Americans, but under funded and only taught factory skills.
What were the Geneva Accords?
An act promising fair election to unite Vietnam after the French decolonization.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
A manifesto outlining the goals of SDS by combating 1950s conformity, the cold war, and racial inequality
What 3 acts were successfully passed for the new environmentalism movement?
Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered species act.
What Great Society program unintentionly funded corrupt politicians?
Office of Economic Opportunity
What is the Strategic Hamlet Program?
Kennedy's strategy to increase military presence in Vietnam by sending 16,000 military "advisors".
What is the name of the famous Harvard professor who popularized and sold psychedelic drugs like LSD?
Tim Leery
What landmark supreme court case made it legal for women to terminate pregnancies?
Roe V. Wade
What famous beverage did John Jones and His followers drink to kill themselves
Kool-Aid