Chapter 38 The Stormy 1960’s
1.What did Robert Kennedy focus on as he became attorney-general?
2.How did John F. Kennedy choose to attack a sagging economy?
3.What was Charles Degaulle’s opinion of America?
4.What was the 1962 Trade Expansion Act?
5.What was JFK’S flexible response?How was it received?
6.Why did America get involved in Vietnam?
7.What was the Alliance of Progress?
8.How did the television debate factor in Kennedy winning the election in 1960?
9.What was the failure of the Bay of Pigs in 1961?
10.How did JFK react to the Soviet installation of nuclear weapons in Cuba?
11.What was the Cuban Missile, Crisis ?What was the final result?
12.What was important of JFJ’s Peace Corp Program?
13.Why did JFK move slowly in the area of racial injustice entering office.
14.Why was JFK’S presidency compared to CAMELOT,but it ended in a nightmare??
15.When did JFK move to join the civil rights movement?
16.How did JFK react to the Little Rock Crisis?
17.Why did Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate JFK on November 22,1963.Why did Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey
Oswald?Conspiracy?
18.What did the Warren commission recommend on who killed Kennedy?
19.What were the major program of Kennedy’s New Frontier Program?
20.Where did Lyndon Johnson prove to be more successful than JFK?
21.What was the name of LBJ’S domestic reform program?
22.What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution importance?
23.Whay did voters select LBJ over Barry Goldwater in 1964?
24.What were the major successful programs of LBJ’s Great Society?Which were successful,and which failures?
25.Why does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 state? Voting Rights Act 1965? Civil Rights Act 1968?
26.What was the importance of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
27.What was the significance of the 24th amendment for blacks in the South?
28.What is Medicare and Medicaid?
29.Why did the Watts Riot erupt in Los Angeles in 1965?
30.What were the major ideas of Malcolm X and his movement?The Black Panthers?
31.What was Dr. Martin Luther King’s main philosophy and tactics on getting change regarding civil rights?Successful?
32.Who were othe black leaders of the the civil rights movement,and how their policies differed?
33.Who wer Freedom Riders and Freedom Summer different goals in the South?
34.How did blacks view themselves by the late 1960’s,and new terminology used to refer to black people?
35.Who were the Brown Berets,and the Los Angeles “Blowouts” or Walkouts of 1968?
36.What was the Tet Offensive,and how did it impact LBJ’s election in 1968?
37.Who landed on the moon on July 20,1969?Significance to JFK?
38.How did most American react to the film on the March on Birmingham and Selm,Alabama?
39.Medger Evers,JFK,Malcom X,Martin L.King,Robert Kennedy had what in common ?Why??
40.The Vietnam War was an undeclared war what was Agent Orange,napalm?
41.What was the U.S strategy of war in Vietnam?The Viet Congs strategy?
42.What happened to Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in June of 1968?
43.Who won the election of 1968?Who was the third party candidate?
44.What are examples of the sexual revolution of the 1960’s?
45.What musical groups had a major impact on music as the British Invasion?What was Motown?
46.Who were the counterculture?What are hippies?Who were the SDS?
47.What impact did marijuana and LSD and other substance have on 1960’s culture?
48.What was the impact of the Stonewall Inn riot?
49.Who were the “flower children”,and why head to San Francisco?
50.List early 60’s songs,surfer music,beatle songs,Motown songs,folk songs,psychedelic songs,rock songs,bossa nova etc.