1. 1960s Final Review!

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Questions: 15. What amendment banned poll taxes? 24 th 16. What amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote? 26 th 17. Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam? Ho Chi Minh 18. What parallel divided Vietnam? 17th

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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