APUSH
Mr. Dunn
Chapter 31 Study Guide
Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism: 1959-1968
Important Terms, people, and ideas
John F. Kennedy
George Wallace
New Frontier
March on Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
Freedom Summer
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1965
The Great Society
De facto segregation
Medicare and Medicaid
De jure segregation
The war on poverty
Watts Riots
Immigration Act of 1965
Black Power
Lunch counter sit-ins
Malcolm X
SNCC
Nation of Islam
CORE
Bay of Pigs
Freedom Rides
Berlin Wall
SCLC
Nikita Khrushchev
Birmingham
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ho Chi Minh
Vietminh
Geneva Conference
Ngo Dinh Diem
vietcong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Attrition
pacification
1968
Tet Offensive
Robert Kennedy
Democratic National
Convention
Richard M. Nixon
1. Describe the Medicare program including the reasons why it was more acceptable than welfare.
2. Describe the Medicaid program.
3. Describe what the OEO was and why it failed.
4. Describe the Immigration Act of 1965 and how it differed from the National Origins Act of the 1920s.
5. Explain the achievements of the “Great Society”
6. Describe the following civil rights groups, leaders involved and what they did.
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
7. What was the purpose of the “March on Washington?”
8. Explain the difference between de jure and de facto segregation.
9. Watts Riot
What caused it?
When:
How long did it last?
Results:
10. How did the Black Power movement relate to the ideas of Marcus Garvey?
11. Explain Malcolm X’s view on violence.
12. Why did the Bay of Pigs fail?
13. When was the Berlin Wall built and what was its purpose?
14. Describe Kennedy’s actions when he discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba.
15. Describe the decisions made about Vietnam at the Geneva Conference.
16. Why did the US reconsider its commitment to Diem?
17. Explain why Johnson expanded American involvement in Vietnam.
18. Explain the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
19. Explain the pacification program.
20. Describe the growing opposition to the war.
21. Describe the significance of the Tet Offensive.
22. Which two important political figures were assassinated in 1968? Describe the events surrounding
each of the tragedies.
23. Describe what happened at the Democratic National Convention.
When?
Where?
Leaders on both sides:
Describe in detail what transpired:
24. Describe the political platform of George Wallace.
25. What did Nixon offer to capture the presidential nomination?