Mr. Maurer
American Cultures 6.0
Review for Test – Chapters 28 & 29 (and a little bit of 27)
Civil Rights and the 1960s
Chapter 27 – Eisenhower and Kennedy
1. Where was Eisenhower’s “Domino Theory” first put to the test?
2. Explain the significance of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
3. What were the recommendations of the Geneva Accord in 1954?
4. Why did the U.S. want to cancel the scheduled elections in Vietnam in 1956?
5. Who was the leader of the Vietnamese independence movement under French rule and then leader of
North Vietnam?
6. What new medium helped propel John F. Kennedy to victory in the 1960 Presidential election?
7. How did President Kennedy manage to achieve a peaceful settlement to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
8. What goal did President Kennedy set for NASA in 1961?
9. What was the conclusion of the Warren Commission regarding President Kennedy’s assassination?
10. Why did the Soviets and East Germans build the Berlin Wall?
Chapter 28 – The Civil Rights Movement
11. Describe the outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case.
12. Identify the tactics used by Civil Rights leaders to end segregation in the South.
13. What was the outcome of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case?
14. How did Governor Faubus of Arkansas react to the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate the
schools?
15. Why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas in 1957?
16. How did the protests and violence in Birmingham, Alabama affect the Kennedy administration’s
approach to Civil Rights?
17. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?
Chapter 29 – The 1960s
18. What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and how did it affect America’s participation in the Vietnam
War?
19. Describe the results of the 1964 Presidential election.
20. Define the “credibility gap” that existed during the Vietnam War.
21. Demographically (race, economic status, etc.), who was most likely to serve as a combat soldier in
Vietnam?
22. What issues were college students protesting during the 1960s? (identify several)
23. Describe the Tet Offensive. What effect did it have on the U.S. war effort? What effect did it have on
President Johnson’s political career?
24. Why did conservatives criticize Johnson’s Great Society?
25. Describe Johnson’s Great Society. How successful was it? What was the major factor that prevented
him from dedicating more resources to the Great Society?
26. Identify the major events of 1968.
27. How did African-Americans react to Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968?
28. What did Nixon mean by his plan for “Vietnamization” of the war?
29. Why did anti-war demonstrations intensify in the United States in 1970?
30. How did the war in Vietnam finally end?