1960s Final Review!

Questions:

• 1. What impacted the 1960s election and why?• It was televised and changed people’s view• 2. What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs

invasion?• To get rid of Fidel Castro• 3. What was J.F.K’s strategy during the Cuban

Missile Crisis?• To use a naval blockade to prevent Soviet ships

from getting to Cuba

Questions:

• 4. JFK’s organization to help developing countries was the:

• Peace Corps• 5. Who killed JFK?• Lee Harvey Oswald• 6. hat group investigated JFK’s assassination?• Warren Commission• 7. How did the NAACP fight for civil rights?• Through court cases

Questions:

• 8. What did groups like the Black Panthers and Malcolm X think about Civil Rights?

• Blacks should separate themselves form white communities

• 9. Who killed Malcolm X?• Three members of the Nation of Islam• 10. What were the strategies of the SCLC and

MLK?• Sit ins, marches, speeches, non-violence

Questions:

• 11. Who killed MLK?• James Earl Ray• 12. What was the goal of the Freedom Riders?• To end segregation at bus and public facilities• 13. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?• Ended discrimination in the work place• 14. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 do?• Ended discrimination in housing

Questions:

• 15. What amendment banned poll taxes?• 24th

• 16. What amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote?

• 26th

• 17. Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?• Ho Chi Minh18. What parallel divided Vietnam?17th

Questions:

• 19. What job did Robert McNamara have during the Vietnam War?

• Secretary of Defense• 20. What was the series of trails that brought

supplies from the north into South Vietnam?• Ho Chi Minh Trail• 21. What kind of weapons did the Vietcong use?• Homemade booby traps and guerilla tactics

Questions:

• 22. What impact did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution have?

• It allowed the president to escalate the war• 23. Which U.S. president escalated the war in Vietnam?• LBJ• 24. Before the Vietnam War, Vietnam was a colony of:• France• 25. Why was Diem a bad leader of South Vietnam?• He was too westernized and would not allow Buddhists

to practice their religion

Questions:

• 26. Who won the 1968 election for president?• Nixon• 27. What was the Silent Majority?• The average American who voted for Nixon • 28. How could you get out of the draft?• College, go to Canada, lie about being homosexual,

have a medical condition• 29. What happened at the My Lai Massacre?• American soldiers raped and killed hundreds of civilians

Questions:

• 30. Why was Vietnam called the Living Room War?

• Americans saw the horrors of war on tv and it made them against the war

• 31. What happened to public opinion of the war after the Tet Offensive?

• Americans started believing the US could not win• 32. Who did Cesar Chavez help fight for rights?• Migrant farm workers

Questions:

• 33. Which region of the US had Jim Crow laws?• The south• 34. Why did Muhammed Ali lose his boxing title?• He refused to be drafted• 35. Which court case legalized abortion?• Roe V. Wade• 36. What was Nixon’s policy of Vietnamization?• Slowly pulling US troops out of Vietnam and

returning the war to the south

Questions:

• 37. What were characteristics of the counterculture in the 60s?• Long hair, drug use, free love, peace• 38. What was Woodstock?• A concert for hippies about peace• 39. What was the capital of South Vietnam?• Saigon• 40. What year of the height of the wra in Vietnam?• 1968• 41. What candidate was shot and killed during the 1968

election?• Robert Kennedy

Questions:

• 42. What was Agent Orange?• A herbicide to show Vietcong hiding places• 43. What were nicknames for the Vietcong?• Black pajamas, VC, gook, Charlie• 44. How did the police try to stop civil rights

protests?• Fire hoses, dogs, clubs• 45. What did Apollo 11 achieve?• Landed on the moon