Unit 13 Review Game■Essential QuestionEssential Question:

–What were the major domestic & foreign themes in U.S. history from 1960-1974?

■Cuban Missile Death Match!

Unit 13 Review Game ■In groups of three, respond to

each prompt presented:

–For each series of prompts, groups will earn points per correct answer

–For each incorrect answer, groups will earn 0 points

–Groups will earn 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 bonus points based on scores

What Event Caused Each?1. The beginning of the civil rights

movement in 1954 2. The emergence of Martin Luther

King as a national civil rights leader in 1955

3. March on Washington in 1963 by

CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP4. Civil Rights Act of 19645. Voting Rights Act of 1965

■ Brown v BOE → Civil Rights Movement

■ Success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott → MLK as leader (& SCLC)

■ National attention generated by Birmingham march → March on D.C.

■ Birmingham violence on TV and/or March on D.C. → Civil Rights Act

■ Violence at Selma march → Voting Rights Act

Identify Each JFK Concept:“Best & the Brightest”

“New Frontier”“Flexible Response”

Bay of Pigs Warren Commission

■ “Best & Brightest”: Term for JFK’s White House staff; He increased power of prez by using his staff more than the Cabinet

■ “New Frontier”: JFK’s domestic policy, called for liberal reform in education, poverty, & strong stand against USSR

■ “Flexible Response”: JFK’s foreign policy of using a variety of tactics, increased nuclear missiles, CIA, Green Berets

■ Bay of Pigs: Failed invasion of Cuba 1961■ Warren Commission: Gov’t investigation

of JFK’s assassination (“Oswald did it“)

Name 6 components of Lyndon Johnson’s

“Great Society”

Identify Each Vietnam Concept:Ho Chi Minh

Ngo Dinh Diem Vietcong

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964Tet Offensive, 1968Pentagon PapersVietnamization

■ Ho Chi Minh: Communist leader in North■ Diem: Democratic leader in South; JFK

gave OK for his assassination in 1963■ Vietcong: Communists in the South ■ Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Congress gave

LBJ all necessary steps to win Vietnam; led to full deployment of U.S. troops

■ Tet Offensive: Communist invasion into South; showed that USA wasn’t winning

■ Pentagon Papers: Military docs showed U.S. gov’t was distorting truth about war

■ Vietnamization: Nixon’s gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops; Let Vietnamese fight

Name 1 way each helped Civil Rights from 1948-1965:

Harry TrumanDwight Eisenhower

Lyndon JohnsonSupreme Court

CORESNCC

■ Truman: Desegregated military in 1948

■ Ike: Enforced school integration at Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957

■ LBJ: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment

■ Supreme Court: Brown v. BOE in 1954 overturned Plessy

■ CORE: Freedom Rides in 1961

■ SNCC: College students inspired by MLK began the sit-in; Later became militant under Stokely Carmichael

Name 5 reasons 1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American history

■ Assassination of MLK■ Assassination of Robert Kennedy■ Student protests in Chicago during

Democratic National Convention (Humphrey vs. McCarthy)

■ Height of the Vietnam War with 500,000 U.S. soldiers deployed

■ North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive ■ “Black Power” silent protest at

Mexico City Olympics

Name 5 ideas, events, or people associated

with “counter-culture” or the “youth movement” of the 1960s & 1970s

■ Mario Savio, “Free Speech” movement, Students for a Democ Society (SDS)

■ “Sex, drugs, rock n roll”

■ Protest of the Vietnam War; Kent State & Jackson State violence in 1970

■ Timothy Leary “tune in, turn on, drop out”

■ Woodstock concert, 1969

■ “Hippies” & alternative communities

■ Any of the “power movements”

■ Political activism; Dem Convention 1968

Identify Each:Dixiecrat

Black PowerCivil Rights Act

Voting Rights Act Thurgood Marshall

Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)

■ Dixiecrat: Southern Democrats who splintered from the party in opposition to civil rights position of JFK & LBJ

■ Black Power: led by SNCC & Stokely Carmichael, advocated economic equality with whites; often militant

■ Civil Rights Act: ended segregation laws■ Voting Rights: ended literacy tests &

allowed for federal voting registrars■ Marshall: Lead NAACP attorney in the

Brown case; 1st black Sup.Court justice■ Nation of Islam: Led by Malcolm X,

advocated a militant, pro-Africa position

Identify Each Civil Rights Concept from 1965-1974:

Stonewall RiotERA

Roe v. Wade La Raza

Cesar ChavezAlcatraz Island, 1969

■ Stonewall Riot: Arrests in NY began the gay liberation movement (GLF)

■ Equal Rights Amnd: failed amendment to end sexual discrimination; Supported by Freidan & Steinem; Opposed by Schlafly

■ Roe v Wade: Supreme Court upheld abortion rights as a matter of privacy

■ La Raza: Mexican-American movement dedicated to awareness

■ Cesar Chavez: Mexican-Am leader of United Farm Workers of America

■ Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes seized the prison to bring awareness to Indian rights

Name the 3 components of Nixon’s détente

foreign policy

■ Détente: Nixon’s Cold War foreign policy involved:

–Easing tensions with USSR

–Better relations with China

–A gradual withdrawal from Vietnam (Vietnamization)

Identify Each Nixon Concept:“The Great Nixon Turn-Around”

“Silent Majority”Ping-Pong Diplomacy

SALTWar Powers Act (1973)

Watergate

■ Nixon Turn-Around: 90-day freeze on wages helped end a recession in 1971

■ Silent Majority: Conservative minded Americans fed up with liberal reform, Cold War foreign policy, & student protests

■ Ping-Pong Diplomacy: beginning of Nixon’s official recognition of China

■ SALT: nuclear arms limitation with USSR■ War Powers Act: Restricted military power

of president; Congressional approval to send troops for more than 90 days

■ Watergate: biggest prez scandal ever