The student group called JOIN in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, wanted to mobilize the community to * demand an end to poverty and to build a decent social order. demonstrate against the 1968 Democratic Convention. have "be-ins" in the Summer of Love. extend the civil rights movement to the North. Northern college students addressed all of the following problems except: demonstrate against the 1968 RepublicanConvention. * poverty the bureaucracy of the welfare offices police brutality Why did Johnson not want his administration to lose in Vietnam? * It would hurt him in the upcoming election. Johnson was a warmonger. Johnson understood the political price Eisenhower paid over losing China. The Democratic Party wanted a war to help the economy. All of the following were successes of groups like SDS except: College students realized their political power. They encouraged the poor to take action. They popularized a new style of activist politics. * They allied with liberal Democrats. Why did Johnson not want to inform the people about the realities of the Vietnam War? * He feared losing support for his domestic programs. He was secretive by nature. The Republicans demanded it. He feared public protest. Operation Rolling Thunder was an attempt by Johnson to bombard North Vietnam from ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. * use air power to avoid sending in ground forces. keep Cambodia from supplying the North Vietnamese. round up Vietcong sympathizers in South Vietnamese villages. All of the following resulted from the Vietnam War except: * Social Security deductions increased. Ten percent increase in corporate and individual taxes. The Social Security fund was tapped. Inflation increased. The following was true of the 1960s generation: * They were highly educated. They agreed with their parents. They were conservative. They were apathetic about politics. The 1964 Berkeley student protests focused on * free speech. the war in Vietnam. civil rights. antipoverty programs What was the consequence of the free speech movement? * Students demanded more educational rights. Students dropped out of school. Students demanded more universities. Students turned to drugs instead of education. This was the trilogy of the counterculture: * sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll sex, drugs, and politics communes, politics, and drugs education, politics, and conservatism Student protesters concentrated on this company, the maker of Napalm: Union Carbide DuPont * Dow Exxon All of the following were involved in antiwar protests except: * conservative Democrats college students Vietnam veterans clergy The average age of an American soldier in Vietnam was * 19. 21. 23. 26. Which one of the following was LEAST likely to be a soldier in Vietnam? a high school dropout * a college student a working class African American male a poor male Which one of the following accurately describes the composition of the military during the Vietnam War? * Soldiers were young and minorities were disproportionately represented. Soldiers came from the middle class and were well-educated. Soldiers were WWII veterans. Soldiers were old and minorities were under-represented. Which one of the following was a likely experience for a U.S. soldier in Vietnam? * Vietnamese civilians attacked American soldiers. Superior military power overwhelmed the Vietnamese. African American soldiers felt welcome. Veterans received a hero's welcome home. Upon their return to the United States, veterans experienced all of the following except: * welcome home ticker tape parades physical injuries post-traumatic stress disorder a feeling of betrayal The people in the communities of Harrington's Other America suffered from all of the following except: malnutrition * steady income growth bad housing poor medical care Why did big city mayors denounce the Office of Economic Opportunity? * They could not completely control its funding. They felt the communists controlled it. They did not feel the federal government should run such a program. They feared the loss of votes in the coming election. How did changing residential patterns affect many big cities? * The housing stock deteriorated. The urban centers developed into office complexes without residential neighborhoods. Traffic thinned out. Urban conditions improved. All of the following were problems for urban centers except: * Income for white Americans declined dramatically. housing shortages for the poor low wages for the poor an increase in pollution By the time of his death in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. * openly opposed the Vietnam War. abandoned his nonviolent philosophy. lost hope to bring about change. had transferred control of the movement to younger leaders. This 1968 presidential candidate was so popular on campuses that his campaign was called the "Children's Crusade": Robert Kennedy Hubert Humphrey * Eugene McCarthy Abbie Hoffman Where did the first major urban uprising occur? * Watts Newark Chicago Birmingham All of these are consequences of the Tet Offensive except: * The Vietnam War ended. Public support for the war declined. Congress refused to allow troop increases. Johnson withdrew from his re-election campaign. Most of the activism of young women in the women's liberation movement was in flamboyant radical activities. * consciousness raising groups. anti-war protests. writing. Which one of the following was a consequence of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination? * Blacks developed deep feelings of mistrust for whites. Johnson attended the funeral. Banks issued loans to rebuild inner city neighborhoods. Southern congressmen understood their black constituents. What was Hubert Humphrey's greatest liability in the 1968 presidential campaign? * his reputation as a Cold War Democrat his reputation as a liberal Democrat his reputation as a civil rights advocate his reputation as a Cold War Republican Mayor Richard Daley sent undercover police into street crowds surrounding the convention hall of the 1968 National Democratic Convention * to justify police retaliation against demonstrators. to identify Communist troublemakers. to identify civil rights agitators. to identify Yippies. The Black Panthers organized * for self defense against police harassment and brutality. to help keep their young out of the Vietnam War. as apolitical activist groups. under the CAA program of the Great Society. What was the major activity of the Black Panthers? * patrolling the police opening soup kitchens providing information to the police educating children What was the most enduring component of Black Power? * cultural nationalism a militant leadership self-help programs scholarship money for African American youth The Rev. Jesse Jackson promoted * African American-owned businesses in African American neighborhoods. the idea that African Americans should turn to the church for their support. the idea that African Americans should resort to violence if their voice is not heard. voluntary segregation. In 1970, hoping to deliver a knockout blow to the North Vietnamese, Nixon launched the Vietnamese Plan. * ordered the bombing and invasion of Cambodia. announced a cease fire in Laos and Cambodia. began Operation Rolling Thunder. The most dramatic foreign policy move of the Nixon Presidency involved negotiating an Arab-Israeli peace accord. reopening diplomatic relations with Cuba. * his visit to the People's Republic of China. signing a comprehensive atomic test ban treaty with the Soviets. The CREEP-hired team that broke into the Democratic Party headquarters was trying to find evidence to discredit Pentagon paper publisher David Ellsberg. * install listening devices. locate documents that showed McGovern was inciting campus rioting. find those responsible for foreign policy leaks. All of the following happened in 1968 except Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are assassinated. The Tet Offensive begins. The American Indian Movement is founded. * Lt. William Calley Jr. is court-martialed for the My Lai Massacre. Vietnam Veterans against the War was formed in 1964. 1965. * 1967. 1969. In this year, the United States moved into Cambodia and campus demonstrations occur with students being killed at Kent State and Jackson State: 1967 1968 1969 * 1970 Ohio and New York experienced the * largest number of urban uprisings from 1965 to 1969. smallest number of urban uprisings from 1965 to 1969. largest number of campus protests from 1967 to 1969. smallest number of campus protests from 1967 to 1969. Which one of the following groups was the last to be formed? Black Panthers American Indian Movement Asian American Political Alliance * Gay Liberation Front