UNIT 7/FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Chapter 19- Terms and People
John F. Kennedy
Cuban Missile crisis
Richard Nixon
hot line
Fidel Castro
nuclear test ban treaty
flexible response
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
space race
Nikita Khrushchev
Warren Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
Medicare
Civil Rights Act
Medicaid
War of Poverty
Immigration and Nationalization Act
Economic Opportunity Act
Warren Court
Great Society
Concepts –
What were the results of the following Cold War Crisis events: Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall and Cuban
Missile Crisis?
What were the programs introduced by President Johnson’s Great Society policy and how did they affect America?
How did the Warren Court change American society? (focus on court cases)
Chapter 20
Ho Chi Minh
SEATO
domino theory
Vietcong
Dien Bien Phu
Gulf of Tolkin resolution/Operation Rolling Thunder
William Westmoreland
Hawk vs. dove
Napalm and Agent Orange
Tet Offensive
Draftee
Eugene McCarthy
SDS
Robert Kennedy
“credibility gap”
Pentagon Papers
Vietnamization
Paris Peace Accords
Kent State University
War Powers Act
My Lai
Anti-war music
Henry Kissinger
SALT
Realpolitik
Détente
Zhou Enlai
Concepts –
How did the Cold War influence the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam?
How did America’s involvement in Vietnam grow?
How did the Tet Offensive affect Americans’ view of the war? How was 1968 an important year for the US?
What were the lasting effects of the Vietnam War?
What were President Nixon’s Cold war strategies for China and the Soviet Union?
EXTRA
1972 Election
Bill Clinton
Watergate scandal
Monica Lewinsky
“All the President’s men”
Ken Starr Report
Committee to Reelect the President
Impeachment/Constitutional language
Woodward and Bernstein
Executive Privilege
ConceptsHow did the break in at Watergate create a scandal for Richard Nixon? What role did tape recordings
play in this scandal?
Why did Nixon resign from office in 1974?
What were the similarities/differences between Nixon and Clinton’s scandals?
What role does the Constitution play in a president’s impeachment?