Chapter-30 Study Guide
Greensboro sit-ins; 1960 campaign and elections; Kennedy’s agenda when elected;
Alliance for Progress; Nation building in Latin America; The Peace Corps;
Counterinsurgency (in nation-building); Success of nation-building
Berlin crisis; Bay of Pigs; Policy toward Cuba before and after Bay of Pigs; Operation
Mongoose – goals-success; Cuban Missle Crisis; American response to Soviet missles;
Cuban missle resolution (Quid-pro-quo); aftermath of
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; Freedom Riders – Birmingham and
Montgomery; Freedom Summer of 1964; MLK and the Children’s Crusade; James
Meredith and kennedy’s response; JFK & Civil Rights; The New Frontier;
LBJ and the Great Society; LBJ’s agenda upon entering office; Civil Rights Act of 1964provisions and discrimination based on gender; Mississippi Freedom Democratic party of
1964; Barry Goldwater & Civil Rights Act of 1964; barry Goldwater and presidential
campaign of 1964. Election of 1964.
LBJ & reform legislation; Voting Rights Act of 1965 – provisions and results;
Immigration Act of 1965; Johnson’s war on poverty – tactics and criticisms and results;
The medicare program of 1965 – provisions; War on Poverty – general; LBJ’s presidency
The Diem government in South Viet Nam and end of; Gulf of Tonkin incident and
resolution; Significance of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Americanization of the Vietnam
War; escalation of war in Vietnam; Soldiers in Viet Nam; Results of American tactics in
Viet Nam (carpet bombing, napalm, etc.); Senator Fullbright’s public hearings on Viet
Nam;
1954 Harlem Race Riot; Watts race riot of 1965 – causation; Kerner Report; Black
Muslims in the 1960’s; Malcolm-X and beliefs and death; Stokely Carmichael and call
for Black Power; CORE & SNCC and response to Black Power; Black Panthers; the
Sharon Statement & conservatism;
Port Huron Statement; Student protest movement and Berkeley and causation; Students
for a Democratic Society; Students targets and “in loco parentis”; 1960’s pop culture;
Haight-Ashbury; birth-control and trends;
Tet Offensive of 1968 – what was it, aftermath of; Race riots of 1968; Election of 1968;
the 1968 Democratic national Convention in Chicago; Nixon and election of 1968