Deck 11: Vietnam and Civil Disobedience, 1963-1969

Question 1

Who was the leader of North Vietnam in the 1960's?

A) Le Duc To
B) Hien Bo
C) Ho Chi Minh
D) Mao Tze Tung
E) Minh Fu

Answer 1

Ho Chi Minh

Question 2

Why did Malcolm X create the "X" for his last name?

A) None of the below
B) He wanted to keep his name short and catchy
C) He felt that he was unknown
D) That due to slavery he really had no last name.
E) That actually was his real last name

Answer 2

That due to slavery he really had no last name.

Question 3

What was the name of the man who shot JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald?

A) Adeline
B) Ruby
C) Stevenson
D) Boyle
E) Mudd

Answer 3

Ruby

Question 4

What was the name of the name of the new women's group that Betty Friedan helped start?

A) Christian Temperance Union
B) Women Today
C) Nation Organization for Women
D) Emily
E) Unite

Question 5

Which of the following was a programmed aimed at providing for education in poor communities?

A) Head Start
B) AFDC
C) Medicaid
D) SSI
E) Encore

Question 6

What was the name of the United States general in South Vietnam for most of the 1960's?

A) McArthur
B) Westmoreland
C) Flora
D) Haig
E) Bailey

Question 7

Who was the Republican candidate for president in 1964?

A) Reagan
B) Goldwater
C) Rockefeller
D) Nixon
E) Eisenhower

Question 8

Which of the following was a popular sitcom housewife in the early 1960's?

A) Mildred Homestead
B) Alice Drake
C) Donna Reed
D) Rosie the Riveter
E) Merry Winters

Question 9

Who wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique?"

A) Edith Green
B) Betty Friedan
C) Elizabeth Hornsby
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
E) Susan Anthony

Question 10

Which of the following was not created during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson?

A) Peace Corps
B) VISTA
C) HUD
D) DOT
E) Medicare

Question 11

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were largely unnoticed until what event occurred?

A) RFK assassination
B) Free Speech Movement
C) ML King assassination
D) Gulf of Tonkin
E) Tet offensive

Question 12

The term used for Caucasians leaving the city for the suburbs in order to avoid integrated housing was called?

A) White Flight
B) Race to the suburbs
C) City escape
D) Rear View mirror
E) Suburbs here we come

Question 13

What was the name of the African American who was shot while "Marching to Memphis in 1966?

A) Stokely Carmichael
B) William King
C) Robert Allan
D) Allan Watts
E) James Meredith

Question 14

Approximately how many days was JFK president of the United States?

A) 2,500
B) 1,500
C) 300
D) 800
E) 1,000

Question 15

When was the second Emancipation Proclamation supposed to have issued?

A) January 1,1963
B) January, 1, 1960
C) July 4, 1963
D) July 4, 1961
E) January 31, 1963

Question 16

What was the name of the bombing operation the US used in South Vietnam?

A) Annihilation
B) All Out
C) Disintegration
D) Rolling Thunder
E) Carpet Bombing

Question 17

The anti-American forces within South Vietnam were called?

A) Southern rebels
B) Viet Cong
C) Ho supporters
D) Laotians
E) Confederates

Question 18

In what city did the Marin Luther King Jr. deliver the "I Have a Dream" speech? meet?

A) Washington, D.C.
B) Seattle
C) Los Angeles
D) New York
E) Boston.

Question 19

Which of the following were the Black panthers known for wearing?

A) Black sunglasses
B) Black leather jackets
C) Black berets
D) None of the above
E) All of the above

Question 20

Who was the catholic leader of South Vietnam that was assassinated apparently with JFK's approval?

A) Sinh Zhetung.
B) Trong Tri Wen
C) Ho Chi Minh
D) Thu Bai
E) Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 21

Who was the Latino organizer who fought for better working conditions for the agricultural workers?

A) Pedro Norez
B) Victor Salinas
C) Louis Chavez
D) Henry Martinez
E) Cesar Chavez

Question 22

The North Vietnamese offensive that took place in January of 1968 was called?

A) Ballou
B) Tet
C) Operation Surprise
D) No tomorrow
E) Victory!

Question 23

In what city was the 1968 Democrat convention?

A) Chicago
B) Detroit
C) New York
D) Boston
E) Houston

Question 24

In 1968, what state primary did RFK win the night he was assassinated?

A) Ohio
B) California
C) Indiana
D) Georgia
E) Oregon

Question 25

When enlisted US servicemen tried to kill their officers by throwing grenades at them, this was called?

A) Annihilating
B) Maiming
C) Fragging
D) Pillorying
E) Grandstanding

Question 26

What was the name of the Vietnamese village where a massacre occurred in 1968?

A) Da Nang
B) Saigon
C) Khesahn
D) Mai Lai
E) Pu Lai

Question 27

In what city was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

A) Chicago
B) Louisville
C) Memphis
D) Dallas
E) Detroit

Question 28

What year did American astronauts land on the moon?

A) 1958
B) 1966
C) 1978
D) 1969
E) 1970

Question 29

Which American president ended the draft?

A) Nixon
B) Johnson
C) Ford
D) Kennedy
E) Carter