REVIEW FOR QUIZ VIETNAM THRU REAGAN In table groups…one answer per table…one person only with notes…the one who’s least prepared!

CATEGORY - VIETNAM

WHICH PEOPLE WERE NORTH VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST TROOPS?  Vietminh

WHICH PEOPLE WERE SOUTH VIETNAMESE, REBELLING AGAINST THE CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP AND FOREIGNERS IN THE SOUTH?  Vietcong

WHICH MAN LED THE COMMUNIST COUNTRY OF NORTH VIETNAM, AND WAS A NATIONAL HERO?  Ho Chi Minh

WHICH MAN LED A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH VIETNAM, RESTRICTING BUDDHISM?  Ngo Dien Diem

WHAT WAS EISENHOWER’S IDEA THAT IF ONE COUNTRY IN ASIA FELL TO COMMUNISM, THE REST WOULD FALL AS WELL?  Domino Theory

WHAT AGREEMENT TEMPORARILY DIVIDED VIETNAM INTO NORTH AND SOUTH AT THE 17 TH PARALLEL??  Geneva Accords

WHICH PRESIDENT GOT AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING IN VIETNAM?  Lyndon B. Johnson

WHICH PRESIDENT GOT AMERICAN TROOPS REMOVED FROM VIETNAM?  Richard Nixon

WHAT ALLOWED FOR AMERICA TO FIGHT IN VIETNAM WITHOUT HAVING TO DECLARE WAR, NAMED AFTER AN INCIDENT WITH ONE OF OUR DESTROYERS??  Tonkin Gulf Resolution

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE TURNING POINT IN VIETNAM, WHERE THE VIETNAMESE LED A MASSIVE ATTACK AGAINST AMERICAN TROOPS ON THEIR NEW YEAR?  Tet Offensive

WHO LED AMERICAN TROOPS IN VIETNAM?  William Westmoreland

WHAT TRAGEDY LED AMERICAN PEOPLE TO TURN AGAINST THE SOLDIERS RETURNING FROM VIETNAM, CALLING THEM BABY KILLERS?  My Lai Massacre

WHAT STUDENT LED DEMONSTRATION TURNED VIOLENT WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD, LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 4 STUDENTS?  Kent State Massacre

WHAT WAS NIXON’S PLAN TO REMOVE TROOPS FROM VIETNAM CALLED? IT REQUIRED US TO TURN THE WAR BACK OVER TO THE VIETNAMESE.  Vietnamization

WHAT LEGISLATION PASSED AFTER VIETNAM TO STOP THE PRESIDENT FROM TAKING TROOPS TO WAR WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL?  War Powers Act 1973

WHERE WERE FRENCH TROOPS FINALLY DEFEATED IN THE 1 ST VIETNAM WAR, LEADING TO AMERICAN INTERVENTION?  Dien Bien Phu

CATEGORY – RIGHTS GROUPS

WHICH PERSON LED THE LATINOS TO BOYCOTT GRAPES, ASKING FOR BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS?  Cesar Chavez

TITLE IX, ERA, NOW AND THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE WERE ALL STEPS FORWARD FOR WHAT GROUP?  Women

WHAT INCIDENT LED TO THE START OF THE MODERN LGBT MOVEMENT?  Stonewall Riots

WHICH GROUP PUT TOGETHER PROTESTS LIKE WOUNDED KNEE 1973 AND THE TRAIL OF BROKEN TREATIES?  AIM – American Indian Movement

THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS SUCCEEDED IN MAKING AMERICA AWARE OF CONSERVATION BY INSTITUTING WHAT NATIONAL HOLIDAY?  Earth Day (April 22)

THIS EVENT WAS THE ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT STOOD FOR – SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL (IN A PEACEFUL MANNER).  Woodstock

CATEGORY – NIXON/FORD

WHICH ORGANIZATION, CONTROLLED BY NIXON’S REPUBLICAN PARTY, IS THIS MEAN TO REPRESENT?  CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President)

WHO WAS NIXON’S PARTNER IN TRAVEL, HELPING HIM NEGOTIATE DÉTENTE, PICTURED HERE?  Henry Kissinger

WHAT WAS NIXON’S PLAN FOR AMERICA TITLED, AS SHOWN IN THIS CARTOON?  New Federalism

WHAT WAS THE AGREEMENT CALLED, THAT IS REPRESENTED IN THIS PICTURE?  Salt I

WHAT COUNTRY DID NIXON RELAX TENSIONS WITH, USING THE ILLUSTRATED METHOD?  China

WHAT INCIDENT IS REPRESENTED IN THIS CARTOON?  Watergate (tapes)

WHAT HAPPENED TO NIXON, AS REPRESENTED IN THIS CARTOON?  Resignation

WHO REPLACED NIXON AS PRESIDENT, THOUGH HE NEVER HAD TO EVEN GET ELECTED AS VICE PRESIDENT?  Gerald Ford

WHAT WAS FORD’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL DECISION, WHICH HE MADE VERY EARLY IN HIS PRESIDENCY?  Pardon of Nixon

CATEGORY – CARTER/REAGAN

CARTER WAS CALLED THE GREAT NEGOTIATOR FOR SUCCESSFULLY NEGOTIATING PEACE BETWEEN WHICH TWO COUNTRIES?  Egypt and Israel

WHAT WAS JIMMY CARTER’S FOCUS AS PRESIDENT, WHICH FORCED US TO END OUR RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION?  Human Rights

WHAT DID CARTER’S ADMINISTRATION RETURN CONTROL OF TO THE PEOPLE OF CENTRAL AMERICA?  Panama Canal

WHICH LEADER WAS ALLOWED TO COME TO THE US, LEADING TO A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN IRAN?  Shah of Iran

HOW MANY AMERICAN HOSTAGES WERE TAKEN IN TEHRAN?  52

LIST ONE THING THAT CHANGED THAT LED TO THE RELEASE OF HOSTAGES IN IRAN?  Reagan was elected  Shah died  Shi’ites legally took power in Iran

WHO WAS THE NEW LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1980S, WHO TRIED TO RESTRUCTURE, BUT LED THEM TO COLLAPSE?  Mikhail Gorbachev

WHAT WAS NANCY REAGAN’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUGS CALLED?  Just Say No

WHAT RELIGIOUS GROUP ROSE TO PROMINENCE UNDER REAGAN, LED BY TELEVANGELISTS LIKE JERRY FALWELL?  Moral Majority

REAGAN’S ECONOMIC PLAN TO PUT MORE MONEY IS PEOPLE’S POCKETS WAS CALLED SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS, AND NICKNAMED WHAT?  Reaganomics

WHAT DEADLY HEALTH DISEASE DID AMERICA BECOME AWARE OF DURING REAGAN’S PRESIDENCY?  AIDS

WHAT WAS REAGAN’S BIGGEST STEP IN CHANGING THE MAKE-UP OF THE SUPREME COURT?  1 st Woman – Sandra Day O’Connor

WHAT WAS REAGAN’S DEFENSE PLAN FOR THE COLD WAR, REQUIRING SATELLITES IN SPACE TO SHOOT SOVIET MISSILES AND NICKNAMED “STAR WARS”?  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

IN WHICH COUNTRY DID MORE THAN 100,000 STUDENTS PROTEST FOR FREEDOM, BUT WERE PUT DOWN VIOLENTLY BY THEIR GOVERNMENT?  China

IN WHICH COUNTRY DID REAGAN’S ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT REBELS BY GIVING THEM WEAPONS AND MONEY FROM IRAN?  Nicaragua

THE NEW RIGHT GREW IN REAGAN’S ADMINISTRATION…GIVE 2 THINGS THEY WANTED TO CHANGE.  Abortion  Affirmative Action  Prayer in schools  ERA  Taxation  Homosexuality