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1960’s Visual Vocabulary Quiz. Chapters 20, 22, 23. 1. Youngest American president; legislative program called the “New Frontier”; participated in the first televised debate with Nixon; assassinated in 1963. 2. Required enrollment in the armed services.
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1960’s Visual Vocabulary Quiz Chapters 20, 22, 23
1. Youngest American president; legislative program called the “New Frontier”; participated in the first televised debate with Nixon; assassinated in 1963.
3. President John F. Kennedy’s legislative program, which included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, to rebuild blighted urban areas, to aid education, to bolster the national defense, to increase international aid, and to expand the space program.
4. A San Francisco district that became the “capital” of the hippie counterculture during the 1960’s
5. A person who supported U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should use increased military force to win it.
6. A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969.
7. A law enacted in 1973, limiting a president’s right to send troops into battle without consulting Congress.
8. A resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.
10. An Ohio university where National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970.
11. The South Vietnamese communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
12. The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960’s, seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love, and individual freedom.
13. An anti-establishment New Left organization that originated in a 1964 clash between students and administrators at the University of California at Berkley
14. A policy, developed during the Kennedy administration, that involved preparing for a variety of military responses to international crises rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons.
15. The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
16. John Kennedy’s younger brother; Attorney General; assassinated while running for president in 1968.
17. The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men.
18. The Supreme Court during the period when Earl Warren was chief justice, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech.
19. A federal program, established in 1965, that provides health insurance and low-cost medical insurance to Americans aged 65 years and over.
20. Texan that succeeded Kennedy after his death; created the “Great Society” and launched a “war on poverty”.
21. A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by the Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.
22. President that succeeded Johnson; part of the first televised debates with Kennedy; resigned due to the Watergate Scandal.
23. Author of The Feminine Mystique; “she addressed the problem that had no name”; leader of the women’s rights movement.
24. A person who opposed the Vietnam War and believed that the United States should withdraw from it.
25. A proposed and failed amendment to the Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of sex.
