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Test Review
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LBJ wins the presidency.
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MLK is shot
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JFK is assassinated
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RFK is assassinated
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The Tet Offensive takes US forces by surprise
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Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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SDS is founded
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The Woodstock Festival occurs in Bethel, NY
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Nixon wins the presidency.
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My Lai Massacre occurs.
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Cronkite predicts a stalemate in the Vietman War.
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Jane Fonda shows support for the NVA.
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Nixon authorized bombing in Cambodia to knock out the VC supply line
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Ms. Barker is born
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Blacks and Hispanics were drafted at a proportional rate to their ratio in the general population.
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The US military was severely defeated during the Tet Offensive.
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Women and children were used by the VC to damage efforts to keep out communism.
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Veterans felt compelled to travel in civilian clothes when returning home to avoid being spat at.
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Ho Chi Minh used portions of the Declaration of Independence when separating from France to get the US on his side.
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Ngo Dinh Diem was a well loved South Vietnamese leader whose sudden death saddened much of his country.
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MLK believed that the Vietnam War would give Blacks the opportunity to earn respect and gain civil rights.
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The body count was an effective measure of success in the Vietnam War.
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The moonwalk happened the same summer as the Woodstock Festival.
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The more radical acts of the counterculture helped usher conservatives like Nixon and Reagan into office.
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The counterculture rejected all forms of religion as oppressive.
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The pill enabled the freer sexual tendencies of the counterculture.
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How many Congress people voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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What was the primary supply route to deliver weapons to the Viet Cong?
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What student organization was created in the 60s for general protest against corporations, but later encouraged anti-war protests at US universities?
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How did Generals start to measure success in battles in Vietnam?
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Who was president when combat troops entered Vietnam?
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Who was president when Vietnam was divided in two?
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Who was president when combat troops were brought home from Vietnam?
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Who was president when the helicopters were needed to evacuate the remaining personnel in Saigon in 1975?
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At what university did the National Guard overreact during an anti-war protest?
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Who burned himself in downtown Saigon?
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The two birds that are used to represent war and peace?
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How did the press refer to the documents that Daniel Ellsburg leaked?
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What musical artist protested the War with these songs: Masters of War and A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall ?
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Whose campaign slogan was “peace with honor”?
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What specific recent activity taken on by Nixon were students protesting at Kent State in 1970?
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What is the full name of the leader of North Vietnam?
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Who was the news anchor who mentioned a sense of lost cause regarding the Vietnam War during his coverage of the Tet Offensive?
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Who was JFK and LBJ’s Secretary of Defense who helped to escalate the Vietnam War, much to his embarrassment later on in life?
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Who did Nixon send to negotiate peace with North Vietnam in 1969 and 1972?
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What was the name for someone who avoided service in Vietnam by going to Canada or faking homosexuality?
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Who was the creator of the idea of containing communism who ended up condemning the Vietnam War?
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Who manipulated events in August 1964 to gain support for increased military action in Vietnam?
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What was the name for someone who got out of the draft for religious or moral reasons?
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Who was the supreme commander for the US military during the Vietnam War?
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Which musical group helped America recover from the tragedy of the JFK assassination in February 1964?
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What were the street names that represented the “hip” part of San Francisco in the late 60s?
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Who was testing LSD on co-eds at Harvard until he was relieved of his duties and took off for California?
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What Act did Nixon veto after the Vietnam War because he felt it took too much power away from the President?
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What 1968 event hurt the reputation of US soldiers in Vietnam?
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