Quarterly 2 Jeopardy Review “Initial” Vocabulary Civil Rights Crisis Abroad Presidential Programs & Policies VietnamMix Of Questions

Women’s rights organization founded in 1966 home

National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) home

Frequently militant organization that was formed in 1968 to work for Native American Rights. home

AIM: American Indian Movement home

an area separating hostile nations where neither side is allowed to have military forces. home

DMZ: Demilitarized Zone

This proposed addition to the U.S. Constitution to protect women’s rights was never ratified home

ERA: Equal Rights Amendment home

thermo-nuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. home

H-Bomb (Hydrogen Bomb) home

Programs that make special efforts to hire or enroll minorities home

Affirmative Action home

This court case gave women the right to an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy home

Roe v Wade home

Non-violent civil rights leader for Latino rights and farmer’s rights. home

Cesar Chavez home

Prohibited discrimination because of race, gender, religion & national origin home

Civil Rights Act of 1964 home

These groups were responsible for the turn in the Civil Rights Movement from non-violent to more militant home

AIM (American Indian Movement) Black Panthers/ Black Power home

This Asian nation was divided following the departure of the French in 1954 home

Vietnam home

The U.S.S.R. put up a wall in this city to keep Communists from fleeing to a democracy home

Berlin, Germany home

This improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during Kennedy's administration by barring nuclear testing in the atmostphere home

Limited (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty home

Extremely tense time when a nearby country had nuclear weapons facing toward us home

Cuban Missile Crisis home

When JFK approved an invasion of Cuba to “take out” communist leader Fidel Castro home

Bay of Pigs Invasion home

President Kennedy increased funding for this agency to push forward the U.S. space program home

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) home

President Johnson’s Great Society programs focused on protecting civil rights and fighting this home

Poverty home

Nixon’s plan for the gradual withdraw of U.S. troops in order for the South Vietnamese to assume more responsibility for the war. “Peace with Honor” home

Vietnamization home

This program begun by President Johnson provides health care for the elderly home

Medicare home

A policy developed during the Kennedy administration, that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons. home

Flexible Response home

This massive Communist attack in Vietnam in 1968 was a military victory for the U.S. but a political defeat home

Tet Offensive home

the difference between what was being reported by the Johnson administration about the war and what was really happening. home

Credibility Gap home

South Vietnamese communists who used guerilla warfare against Americans and South Vietnamese troops home

Vietcong home

Due to the impact television had on Vietnam, it was given this nickname home

The Living Room War home

This provided President Johnson the power to expand the war in Vietnam without the approval of Congress and this took that power away home

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution & War Powers Act home

The government’s investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. home

The Warren Commission home

the increase and spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world. home

Proliferation home

Nickname applied to President Kennedy’s administration because of its youth, energy, & idealism home

Camelot home

The legislation that sought to end the disenfranchisement of African Americans by eliminating literacy tests. home

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 home

The term for the young people of the 1960s that adopted values different from those of mainstream society home

Counterculture home