Ch. 28

Question 1

Johnson’s “Great Society”

Answer 1

a society that has no poverty and the government saves us all

Question 2

John F. Kennedys’s assassination

Answer 2

November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Tx he shot through the head and neck by a sniper and died within the hour. Then LBJ swore into presidency

Question 3

Goldwater’s message

Answer 3

campaigned against the civil rights act and promised a more vigorous cold war foreign policy.

Question 4

Education/medicare/medicaid

Answer 4

medicare- adults

medicaid- children

Question 5

working women (and Equal Pay Act)

Answer 5

equal pay act established the principle of equal pay for equal work

Question 6

Feminine Mystique

Answer 6

The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States

Question 7

National Org. for Women (NOW)

Answer 7

organization to give women the ability to participate in full length society

Question 8

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Answer 8

claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin

Question 9

Operation Rolling Thunder

Answer 9

bombing campaign against north vietnam, but eventually helpe make them even more driven

Question 10

UC Berkeley and the Free Speech Movement

Answer 10

students pro.tested the administrations decision to ban political activity in the school plaza

Question 11

ways to avoid the draft

Answer 11

enlist as national guard or move to Canada or Switzerland

Question 12

The counterculture

Answer 12

three day outdoor Woodstocse was k concert thats main purpo “love and peace”

Question 13

The Tet Offensive

Answer 13

major campaign of attacks launched throughout South Vietnam by the north, major turning point in the war

Question 14

The Democratic National Convention of 1968

Answer 14

convention consumed of political divisions generated by the war

Question 15

George Wallace

Answer 15

famous segregationist who stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent blacks from entering.

Question 16

Miss America pageant and women’s liberation

Answer 16

women were more than looks and men were starting to understand that, they used the miss america pageant as examples of what they are perceived as.

Question 17

Title LX (9)

Answer 17

law that prohibited colleges and universities that received federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sex.

Question 18

Stonewall Inn Riots

Answer 18

two day riot after the police raided the gay bar with contributed to the rise of gay liberation movement.

Question 19

Nixon’s “silent majority”

Answer 19

those who supported Nixon but did not publicly announce it

Question 20

Vietnamization

Answer 20

polcy by Nixon of delegating the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War, american casulaties dropped.

Question 21

My Lai massacre

Answer 21

in 1968 U.S army troops had executed nearly five hundred people in South Vietnamese village My Lai

Question 22

Busing controversy

Answer 22

These gains occurred in the context of the second great controversy of the school desegregation effort – busing. THE CONTROVERSY CAME TO A HEAD in the Supreme Court’s 1971 decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, one of the first attempts to implement a large-scale urban desegregation plan.

Question 23

Election of 1972

Answer 23

47th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. The Democratic Party’s nomination was eventually won by Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, who ran an anti-war campaign against incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon,