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A Decade of Turmoil

(Civil Rights)

Identify:

Thurgood Marshall (pg.696)

 

sit-in

 

freedom riders (pg.704)

 

de facto segregation (pg.711)

 

de jure segregation

 

Black Panthers (pg.714)

 

1. How did the methods of the SNCC protestors differ from those of the boycotters in Montgomery ? (pgs.702-703)

 

 

2. How did the tactics of Malcolm X differ from those of Martin Luther King Jr. ?

 

 

 

(Vietnam)

Identify:

Ho Chi Minh (pg.725)

 

Vietminh (pg.725)

 

Domino Theory

 

Dien Bien Phu

 

Geneva Accords

 

Ngo Dinh Diem (pg.726)

 

Vietcong

 

Ho Chi Minh Trail (pg.726)

 

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (pg.728)

 

Robert McNamara (pg.730)

 

Dean Rusk

 

General William Westmoreland

 

napalm (pg.732)

 

Agent Orange

 

search-and-destroy missions

 

the "maniputable" draft (pg.735)

 

Students for a Democratic Society (pg.737)

 

hawks and doves (pg.739)

 

Eugene McCarthy (pg.743)

 

Bobby Kennedy

 

Sirhan Sirhan (pg.744)

 

Hubert Humphrey

 

George Wallace (pg.746)

 

3. Why did the US provide military assistance to the French in Vietnam ?

 

 

4. Why did the Geneva Accords of 1954 fail to bring lasting peace to Vietnam ?

 

 

5. Why was the Diem regime so unpopular ? (pg.727)

 

 

6. How did the expansion of presidential powers granted by the Gulf of Tinkin Resolution lead to greater U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ?

 

 

7. Why were the Vietcong able to sustain themselves underground for such long periods of time ? (pg.731)

 

 

8. What factors led to the low morale of U.S. troops ? (pg.732-733)

 

 

9. What factors led to the growing concern and eventual lack of support for the war in America ? (pgs733-734)

 

 

10. Why did Martin Luther King call the disproportionate participation of African Americans in Vietnam a "cruel irony? (pg.736)

 

 

11. What were the main reasons student protestors opposed the war ? (pg.738)

 

 

12. Why did Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara resign from Lyndon Johnson's cabinet in 1968 ?(pg.740)

 

 

13.Why did American support for the war change after the Tet offensive ? (pg.742)

 

 

14. Why was 1968 characterized as a year of "lost control" in America ? (pg.744)

 

 

15. How did Mayor Daley deal with protestors at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago ? (pg.745)

 

 

16. What factors led to Nixon's victory in 1968 ?