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Did Nixon
do well in the first televised presidential debate in American history?
Why or why
not?
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No. Nixon suffered more from unattractive image than what he said.
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With
regard to military spending, what did the Kennedy administration authorize?
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Large increases in the defense budget.
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What was
the Bay of Pigs fiasco?
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Kennedy wanted containment of communist Cuba. Cuban exiles "freedom fighters" invaded Bay of Pigs and were defeated.
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What was
the Cuban Missile Crisis? How did it
end?
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Nuclear weapons buildup by Soviets in Cuba. peacefully ended between JFK and Khruschev. Soviets would extract missles, US never invade Cuba.
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Who were
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby?
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Oswald - assassinated JFK in Dallas
Ruby - assassinated Oswald Abraham Zapruder film |
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What did
the 1964 Civil Rights Act do?
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Illegalize segregation, lessons racial discrimination in employment, protected voting rights
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What did
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
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Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States
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What did
LBJ settle for with regard to health care?
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Medicare and Medicaid
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In the
fall 1965 session Congress passed 89 bills that provided for money to go to
what programs?
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Created 2 new cabinet departments (Transportation, Housing and Urban Affairs); highway safety, ensure air and water; higher education, public housing, war on poverty
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How did a
full-scale American involvement in Vietnam begin in 1965?
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Series of steps designed primarily to prevent a NV victory
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What
factors helped persuade American youth to create a “counterculture”?
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Vietnam war. against middle class values, increase in college enrollment, against materialism of affluent society
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What was
the SDS, and how did it operate?
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Students for a Democratic Society. wanted to rid Am poverty, racism, and violence. participatory democracy - personal control of one's life and destiny, not creation of new bureaucracies. seized 5 buildings at Columbia Univ. led to many more marches and sit-ins.
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What book
did Betty Friedan write and what did she call for?
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The Feminine Mystique - freedom of choice to a career (instead of the homemaker) and sex outside of wedlock.
Gloria Steinem bra-burnings etc. |
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What was the Tet Offensive, and what were the
results of this action?
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Vietcong attacked many of the populated cities and began siege of Am marine base at Khe Sanh. LBJ wanted peaceful ending to war. LBJ didn't run for the next presidential race.
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What
happened at the Democratic Convention in Chicago
in 1968?
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SDS and other protestors asked permit to protest in park. Mayor Charles Daley refuses. Protestors took to the streets. Daley gives cops "carte blanche" - can do whatever they want. beatings, German shepards, etc.
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