Deck 13: 1963-1968: The Great Society and Vietnam

Question 1

Lyndon Johnson easily won the 1964 presidential election.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The success of Lyndon Johnson's domestic programs lived up to his rhetoric.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court acted as a catalyst for social change.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Betty Freidan was the first president of the National Organization for Women.

Question 5

The Women's Rights movement of the 1960s borrowed some of its impetus from the concurrent Civil Rights movement.

Question 6

Betty Freidan was a radical feminist.

Question 7

The Women's Rights movement of the 1960s failed to achieve its goals.

Question 8

Integration was the goal of the "black power" movement.

Question 9

Congress gave Lyndon Johnson nearly unlimited latitude for conducting the Vietnam War.

Question 10

Living conditions for people in the Third World were worse in the 1960s than they had been before World War II.

Question 11

In what ways did the Vietnam War counteract or conflict with Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs?

Question 12

What were Lyndon Johnson's reasons for escalating the Vietnam War in the late 1960s?

Question 13

How did the New Left and the counterculture differ from each other?

Question 14

Lyndon Johnson's domestic policies became known by what name?

A) The New Deal
B) The Square Deal
C) The New Frontier
D) The Great Society

Question 15

Who did Lyndon Johnson run against in the 1964 presidential election?

A) Richard Nixon
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Barry Goldwater
D) Robert Kennedy

Question 16

Which of the following was not one of the central concerns of Lyndon Johnson's domestic agenda?

A) Civil rights
B) Women's rights
C) Education
D) Poverty

Question 17

Which of the following Supreme Court rulings dealt with the issue of obscenity?

A) Cox v. Louisiana
B) Jacobellis v. Ohio
C) Engel v. Vitale
D) Loving v. Virginia

Question 18

The Civil Rights Act was signed by what president?

A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Richard Nixon

Question 19

Radical feminists in the 1960s did which of the following?

A) Held consciousness-raising sessions
B) Crowned a sheep at the Miss America Pageant
C) Entered all-male bars
D) All of the above

Question 20

Who coined the phrase "black power"?

A) Malcolm X
B) Stokely Carmichael
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) Roy Wilkins

Question 21

The Watts riot broke out in what year?

A) 1965
B) 1966
C) 1967
D) 1968

Question 22

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in what year?

A) 1965
B) 1967
C) 1968
D) 1972

Question 23

In the 1960s, military governments arose in which of the following Latin American nations?

A) Guatemala
B) Brazil
C) Ecuador
D) All of the above

Question 24

The Johnson administration kept secret the peace overtures of what nation?

A) The U.S.S.R.
B) North Vietnam
C) China
D) All of the above

Question 25

More bombs were dropped on Vietnam during the Vietnam War than which of the following nations during World War II?

A) Germany
B) Japan
C) Italy
D) All of the above

Question 26

In the 1960s, it became illegal to burn what?

A) The flag
B) Draft cards
C) Army uniforms
D) All of the above

Question 27

Who developed the theory of the "power elite"?

A) Lyndon Johnson
B) Robert McNamara
C) Tom Hayden
D) C. Wright Mills

Question 28

The New Left centered where?

A) Congress
B) Universities
C) California
D) The South

Question 29

Who wrote The Making of a Counter Culture?

A) Theodore Roszak
B) Benjamin Spock
C) Tom Hayden
D) C. Wright Mills

Question 30

What issue, more than any other, united the New Left and the counterculture?

A) Poverty
B) Racial equality
C) Vietnam
D) The draft

Question 31

Robert Kennedy was assassinated in what city?

A) Dallas
B) New York
C) Los Angeles
D) Boise, Idaho

Question 32

Talk About:
-apartheid

Question 33

Talk About:
-Barry Goldwater

Question 34

Talk About:
-Black power

Question 35

Talk About:
-Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 36

Talk About:
-counterculture

Question 37

Talk About:
-George Wallace

Question 38

Talk About:
-Gideon v. Wainwright

Question 39

Talk About:
-Great Society

Question 40

Talk About:
-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 41

Talk About:
-"hidden vote"

Question 42

Talk About:
-Johnson Doctrine

Question 43

Talk About:
-Leonid Brezhnev

Question 44

Talk About:
-Lyndon Johnson

Question 45

Talk About:
-Miranda v. Arizona

Question 46

Talk About:
-National Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 47

Talk About:
-"new left"

Question 48

Talk About:
-Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

Question 49

Talk About:
-Richard Nixon

Question 50

Talk About:
-Selma, Alabama

Question 51

Talk About:
-Spiro Agnew

Question 52

Talk About:
-Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Question 53

Talk About:
-"teach ins"

Question 54

Talk About:
-Tet Offensive

Question 55

Talk About:
-The Feminine Mystique

Question 56

Talk About:
-Voting Rights Act

Question 57

Lyndon Johnson compared the situation in Southeast Asia in the early 1960s to the situation in Europe in the 1930s. He thought that U.S. nonintervention in the region would amount to "another Munich." Was this view justified? Why or why not?

Question 58

Discuss the evolution of the conflict in Vietnam. What led the United States into the war? Why did it drag on for as along as it did? What did the United States hope to gain? What was at stake for the Vietnamese, both North and South?