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- Many historians believe the decisive element of the 1960 election was:
- the candidates appearance in a series of televised debates
- What was true about Ngo Dinh Diem?
- He was a Catholic leading a Buddhist country; He was educated in the US; He was selected by the US for leadership in Vietnam because he was an anticommunist
- Black Power leaders argued that African Americans should:
- act to gain control of political and economic power
- The decisions of the Warren Court focused on:
- strengthening individual rights
- What were results of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; removal of Soviet missile bases from Cuba; a "hot line" between the US and the Soviet Union
- Cesar Chavez
- led a labor union; practiced non-violence protest; worked to improve civil rights for Mexican-Americans
- Which Secretary of Defense was relieved of his duty when he reversed his position on the Vietnam War?
- Robert McNamara
- A way the US army measured its success in Vietnam was according to:
- the enemy body count
- Tet Offensive
- military defeat for the Viet Cong; shook American confidence; increased citicism of the war
- Who tried to hurt the Civil Rights Movement by ordering that police dogs and firemen with fire hoses attack demonstrators in Birmingham?
- Bull Connor
- Which of the following would be considered the biggest foreign policy failure John Kennedy?
- Bay of Pigs invasion
- Who urged blacks to use any means necessary to fight for their rights?
- Malcolm X
- 5 Goals of the modern women's movemnent
- equal rights with men; higher job promotions; equal pay for equal work; the right to choose to have an abortion; longer maternity leave
- In what year were Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robret Kennedy assassinated? In the same year ws the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago and the Tet Offensive.
- 1968
- Stokely Carmichael
- Coined the phrase, "Black Power"
- William Westmoreland
- Commander of US forces in Vietnam
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- South Vietnamese leader supported by the US that was assassinated
- Bao Dai
- puppet leader of Vietnam used by France and Japan
- George Wallace
- ran for president in 1968; "Segregation now. Segregation Forever."
- Neil Armstrong
- First man to step on the moon
- William Fulbright
- Led Congressional opposition to the Vietnam War
- Henry Kissinger
- Nixon's Secretary of State
- Robert Kennedy
- Led Congressional opposition to the Vietnam War; ran for US President in 1968
- James Meredith
- ran for President in 1968