1. 1960s & 1970s Review Game Essential Question:
What were the major domestic & foreign themes in U.S. history from ?
Cuban Missile Death Match!

2. Unit 13 Review Game
In groups of three, respond to each prompt presented:
For each series of prompts, students will earn between points per correct answer
For each incorrect answer, groups will earn 0 points if incorrect

3. Name 1 way each helped Civil Rights from : Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower Lyndon Johnson Supreme Court CORE SNCC

4. Truman: Desegregated military in 1948
Ike: Enforced school integration at Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957
LBJ: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment
Supreme Court: Brown v. BOE in 1954 overturned Plessy
CORE: Freedom Rides in 1961
SNCC: College students inspired by MLK began the sit-in; Later became militant under Stokely Carmichael

5. Identify Each: Dixiecrat Black Power Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Thurgood Marshall Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

6. Civil Rights Act: ended segregation laws
Dixiecrat: Southern Democrats who splintered from the party in opposition to civil rights position of JFK & LBJ
Black Power: led by SNCC & Stokely Carmichael, advocated economic equality with whites; often militant
Civil Rights Act: ended segregation laws
Voting Rights: ended literacy tests & allowed for federal voting registrars
Marshall: Lead NAACP attorney in the Brown case; 1st black Sup.Court justice
Nation of Islam: Led by Malcolm X, advocated a militant, pro-Africa position
Dixiecrat Black Power Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Thurgood Marshall Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

7. What Event Caused Each?
The beginning of the civil rights movement in 1954
The emergence of Martin Luther King as a national civil rights leader in 1955
March on Washington in 1963 by CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

8. Brown v BOE → Civil Rights Movement
Success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott → MLK as leader (& SCLC)
National attention generated by Birmingham march → March on D.C.
Birmingham violence on TV and/or March on D.C. → Civil Rights Act
Violence at Selma march → Voting Rights Act
The beginning of the civil rights movement in 1954
The emergence of Martin Luther King as a national civil rights leader in 1955
March on Washington in 1963 by CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

9. Identify Each JFK Concept: “Best & the Brightest” “New Frontier” “Flexible Response” Bay of Pigs Warren Commission

10. Bay of Pigs: Failed invasion of Cuba 1961
“Best & Brightest”: Term for JFK’s White House staff; He increased power of prez by using his staff more than the Cabinet
“New Frontier”: JFK’s domestic policy, called for liberal reform in education, poverty, & strong stand against USSR
“Flexible Response”: JFK’s foreign policy of using a variety of tactics, increased nuclear missiles, CIA, Green Berets
Bay of Pigs: Failed invasion of Cuba 1961
Warren Commission: Gov’t investigation of JFK’s assassination (“Oswald did it“)
“Best & the Brightest” “New Frontier” “Flexible Response” Bay of Pigs Warren Commission

11. Name 6 components of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”

13. Identify Each Vietnam Concept: Ho Chi Minh Ngo Dinh Diem Vietcong Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 Tet Offensive, 1968 Pentagon Papers Vietnamization

14. Ho Chi Minh: Communist leader in North
Diem: Democratic leader in South; JFK gave OK for his assassination in 1963
Vietcong: Communists in the South
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Congress gave LBJ all necessary steps to win Vietnam; led to full deployment of U.S. troops
Tet Offensive: Communist invasion into South; showed that USA wasn’t winning
Pentagon Papers: Military docs showed U.S. gov’t was distorting truth about war
Vietnamization: Nixon’s gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops; Let Vietnamese fight
Ho Chi Minh Ngo Dinh Diem Vietcong Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 Tet Offensive, 1968 Pentagon Papers Vietnamization

15. Name 5 ideas, events, or people associated with “counter-culture” or the “youth movement” of the 1960s & 1970s

16. Timothy Leary “tune in, turn on, drop out” Woodstock concert, 1969
Mario Savio, “Free Speech” movement, Students for a Democ Society (SDS)
“Sex, drugs, rock n roll”
Protest of the Vietnam War; Kent State & Jackson State violence in 1970
Timothy Leary “tune in, turn on, drop out”
Woodstock concert, 1969
“Hippies” & alternative communities
Any of the “power movements”
Political activism; Dem Convention 1968
Name 5 ideas, events, or people associated with “counter-culture” or the “youth movement” of the 1960s & 1970s

17. Name 3 reasons 1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American history

18. Assassination of MLK
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Student protests in Chicago during Democratic National Convention (Humphrey vs. McCarthy)
Height of the Vietnam War with 500,000 U.S. soldiers deployed
North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive
“Black Power” silent protest at Mexico City Olympics

19. Identify Each Civil Rights Concept from : Stonewall Riot ERA Roe v. Wade La Raza Cesar Chavez Alcatraz Island, 1969

20. Stonewall Riot: Arrests in NY began the gay liberation movement (GLF)
Equal Rights Amnd: failed amendment to end sexual discrimination; Supported by Freidan & Steinem; Opposed by Schlafly
Roe v Wade: Supreme Court upheld abortion rights as a matter of privacy
La Raza: Mexican-American movement dedicated to awareness
Cesar Chavez: Mexican-Am leader of United Farm Workers of America
Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes seized the prison to bring awareness to Indian rights
Stonewall Riot ERA
Roe v. Wade La Raza Cesar Chavez Alcatraz Island, 1969

21. Name the 3 components of Nixon’s détente foreign policy

22. Détente: Nixon’s Cold War foreign policy involved:
Easing tensions with USSR
Better relations with China
A gradual withdrawal from Vietnam (Vietnamization)

23. Identify Each Nixon Concept: “The Great Nixon Turn-Around” “Silent Majority” Ping-Pong Diplomacy SALT War Powers Act (1973) Watergate

24. SALT: nuclear arms limitation with USSR
Nixon Turn-Around: 90-day freeze on wages helped end a recession in 1971
Silent Majority: Conservative minded Americans fed up with liberal reform, Cold War foreign policy, & student protests
Ping-Pong Diplomacy: beginning of Nixon’s official recognition of China
SALT: nuclear arms limitation with USSR
War Powers Act: Restricted military power of president; Congressional approval to send troops for more than 90 days
Watergate: biggest prez scandal ever
requiring Congress’ approval to send U.S. forces into combat for more than 90 days & must inform Congress within 48 hours as to the reasons for military intervention