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What was the civil rights campaign to increase black voter registration in Mississippi called? | Freedom Summer (1964) |
Which legislation banned segregation in public accomodations and discrimination in the workplace? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Which legislation resulted in more federal protection for African-American suffrage? | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Which African-American leader is an example of radicalism in the civil rights movement? | Malcolm X |
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC is associated with promoting which radical civil rights movement? | Black Power |
Which civil rights group promoted militant actions against racism and police brutality? | Black Panthers |
Which reform movement was Betty Friedan associated with? | Women's liberation/Feminism |
Which organization played a leading role in the women's liberation movement? | National Organization for Women (NOW) |
Which Supreme Court decision supported the constitutional right to have an abortion? | Roe v. Wade |
The women's liberation movement campaigned to ratify which failed constitutional amendment? | Equal Rights Amendment |
Which federal law requires schools to provide equal access for women to educational and athletic opportunities? | Title IX |
What were some of the results of environmentalism in the 1960s and 1970s? | Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
What was the goal of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society? | end poverty and racial discrimination |
What programs were created under Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" legislation to aid the poor? | Medicaid Medicare, Food stamps, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Head Start |
What was the goal of American military involvement in Vietnam? | containment |
Which resolution enabled President Lyndon Johnson to increase America's involvement in Vietnam? | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Which nuclear arms reduction treaty was signed between Richard Nixon and the Soviet Union in 1972? | SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement) |
What was the turning point that resulted in a loss of public support for President Johnson's handling of the Vietnam War? | Tet Offensive |
Which group organized protests against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam? | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
Which 1960s social movement is associated with the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, sex, drugs, and rock music? | counter-culture or "hippies" |
Which event is associated with the counter-culture? | Woodstock |
Riots at which event demonstrated the division in American society created by the Vietnam War? | the Democratic National Convention of 1968 |
Which presidential candidate was elected in 1968 by promising "peace with honor" in Vietnam and "law and order" at home? | Richard Nixon |
What was President Richard Nixon's strategy in Vietnam? | Vietnamization |
What military action did Richard Nixon take that resulted in massive anti-war protests in the United States? | invading Cambodia & Laos |
Which incident did the anti-war movement use to focus on atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam? | My Lai Incident |
Which war-time issue was involved in the case of NY Times v. U.S.? | freedom of the press (to publish the Pentagon Papers) |
Which classified documents damaged American credibility in the Vietnam War after they were released to the public? | Pentagon Papers |
In which event did anti-war protests against Nixon's invasion of Cambodia result in the killing of student protestors by Ohio national guardsman? | Kent State |
Which constitutional amendment resulted in suffrage for 18-year olds? | 26th Amendment |
Which act was passed by Congress to limit President Nixon's ability to use the U.S. military in Vietnam? | War Powers Act (1973) |
Which theory resulted in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam? | Domino theory |
What was President Nixon's foreign policy to improve relations with the Soviet Union and China called? | Detente |
What event symbolized the failure to prevent the spread of communism in Vietnam? | Fall of Saigon (1975) |
Whose policy is associated with "New Federalism" involving the return of some powers to the states? | President Richard Nixon |
Which practice was upheld by the Supreme Court's decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (1971)? | forced busing/integration programs |
Which practice was upheld by the Supreme Court in the case of Bakke v. University of California Board of Regents (1978)? | affirmative action |
Which movement was a result of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"? | environmentalism |
What economic problems did the United States face during the 1970s? | energy crisis, stagflation |
What problem was President Ford addressing with his WIN program? | inflation/stagflation |
What was a result of the energy crisis during the 1970s? | high energy prices, energy conservation |
Which incident resulted in increased fears of using nuclear power in the United States? | Three Mile Island |
Which scandal resulted in the resignation of President Nixon? | Watergate |
Which court decision ordered President Nixon to release the White House tapes to the Senate Watergate committee? | U.S. v. Nixon |
Who became the president of the United States after Nixon resigned from office? | Gerald Ford |
Which candidate won the presidential election of 1976 by promising to restore faith and honesty in government again? | Jimmy Carter |
What peace treaty was negotiated between Israel and Egypt by President Jimmy Carter? | Camp David Accords |
Which event resulted in a loss of public confidence in President Carter's foreign policy? | Iran Hostage crisis |