Deck 29: A Time of Upheaval

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Woodstock festival

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Robert Kennedy

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Counterculture

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Henry Kissinger

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Anti-War Movement ("Make LoveNot War")

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, New Left

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Richard Nixon

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
1968 Election Campaign

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Hippies, Yippies, Flower Power

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Gay Liberation Movement

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Shootings at Kent State and Jackson State

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Sexual Revolution

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Roe v. Wade

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Baby Boom Generation

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Equal Rights Amendment

Question 17

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Streaking

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Beatles, Rolling Stones

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Eugene McCarthy

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
George McGovern

Question 22

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Jimmy Carter

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency

Question 24

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and "Deep Throat"

Question 25

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Pentagon Papers

Question 26

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Committee to Re-Elect the President

Question 27

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Women's Liberation

Question 29

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Saturday Night Massacre

Question 30

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
détente

Question 31

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Stagflation

Question 32

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
SALT I, ABM Treaty

Question 33

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Spiro Agnew

Question 34

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
National Organization for Women

Question 35

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Gerald Ford

Question 36

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Love Canal

Question 37

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Shuttle Diplomacy

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Camp David Accords

Question 39

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Huston Plan, The plumbers

Question 40

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Watergate

Question 41

Why was Apollo 11 significant to Americans at the time?

A) It provided hope to Americans in difficult times.
B) It showed the dangers of space flight.
C) It pointed to the close relationship between civilian and military space flights.
D) It captured the futility of the space race.
E) It marked the first successful launch of the space shuttle.

Question 42

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
"The British Invasion"

Question 43

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Silent Majority

Question 44

How did Gerald Ford become president?

A) He was elected in 1972.
B) He was nominated by Nixon as vice president, confirmed by Congress, and became president when Nixon resigned.
C) He was appointed by Congress after Nixon and his vice president resigned.
D) He bribed the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve his presidency.

Question 45

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Southern Strategy

Question 46

Which of the following statements concerning the birth control pill is true?

A) It was accepted because by the time it was introduced most states had repealed their restrictions on contraceptive use.
B) It was hailed as technology that would end welfare and poverty.
C) It was widely available to college women via campus health centers.
D) It provided women with reliable birth control that removed the prospect of unwanted pregnancies.
E) It caused the 1960s' sexual revolution in the United States.

Question 47

Which of the following was not one of the developments of the early and mid-1960s that tended to radicalize thousands of American students?

A) The American government refused to pursue total victory in Vietnam.
B) Students saw campus administrators as impersonal and rigid.
C) The Port Huron Statement galvanized many students
D) Students wanted more Americans included in the decision making process.
E) Students were concerned by the inability of mainstream liberalism to achieve swift, far-reaching change.

Question 48

Which of the following singers or musical groups is not representative of the trends in popular music during the 1960s?

A) Woody Guthrie
B) Bob Dylan
C) Motown
D) Rolling Stones
E) Janis Joplin

Question 49

How did Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward influence the American presidency?

A) They exposed the Watergate scandal and presidential abuses.
B) They advocated for and achieved new election rules, particularly around campaign finance.
C) Through their connections with the Castro regime, they hired Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President Kennedy.
D) They served as the independent prosecutors in the Watergate scandal.
E) They ran the Nixon re-election committee for the 1972 presidential election.

Question 50

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
the Pill

Question 51

Which of the following best describes American youth of the 1960s?

A) Most followed conventional paths and sought a secure place in the system.
B) They were radicals who were deeply involved in political action and espoused cultural and political revolution.
C) They generally preferred drugs to beer.
D) As their numbers dwindled, they developed increasing uncertainty about their own collective identity.
E) They longed to be back in the days of President Eisenhower, when things were simple and young people had no responsibilities.

Question 52

When he used "shuttle diplomacy," where was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attempting to achieve a peace settlement?

A) Southeast Asia
B) Eastern Europe
C) Middle East
D) South America
E) Africa

Question 53

What happened at Kent State University in May 1970?

A) Campus radicals ambushed National Guard Troop G, wounding eleven and killing four.
B) Ohio governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to shoot all campus radicals.
C) National Guard troops fired at student antiwar protesters, wounding eleven and killing four.
D) A distraught student stood in the window of the library tower and shot professors walking on the main quadrangle below.
E) Campus police fired into a women's dormitory, accidentally killing two male students who were in the midst of a panty raid.

Question 54

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

Question 55

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
The "Me Decade"

Question 56

What were the goals of the Students for a Democratic Society?

A) a society in which democratic institutions were fully protected from subversion by the international communist conspiracy.
B) the Democratic party in control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
C) 100 percent participation from American colleges in the 1968 national Model Congress to be held in Chicago.
D) a society in which the votes of college-age Americans would be weighted more heavily than the votes of retirees.
E) the transformation of the United States into a "participatory democracy" in which citizens would have direct control over decision making.

Question 57

How did most Americans react to the campus demonstrations of 1970?

A) They criticized campus protesters for undercutting the nation's foreign policy.
B) They blamed the Nixon administration for widening the war, and they applauded the goals of the campus demonstrators.
C) They retreated from traditional American policies and sought new answers in mystic cults, communes, or the ecology movement.
D) They became increasingly radicalized and in the November election voted for radical or left-wing Democratic candidates.
E) They launched counter protests against the students.

Question 58

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
George Wallace

Question 59

Which of the following was not a consequence of the actions of the New Left during the 1960s?

A) Increased opposition to the war in Vietnam.
B) A conservative reaction against radicals.
C) Permanent radicalization of a large portion of American workers and students.
D) Major reforms on American college campuses.
E) Energized campuses and made students a major voice in politics.

Question 60

The Gay Liberation movement became more publicly militant in reaction to

A) the Saturday Night Massacre.
B) police raid on the Stonewall Inn.
C) the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade .
D) the refusal of the Nixon administration to appoint an openly gay jurist to the Supreme Court.
E) the torture of a gay youth in Montana.

Question 61

Which of the following is true about Henry Kissinger?

A) He believed that human nature was basically good and that people would do the right thing if left alone.
B) He believed in Realpolitik .
C) He came to his foreign-policy post in Washington with little knowledge of international relations.
D) He served as the president's national security adviser but failed to become secretary of state because he lacked the willingness to act ruthlessly when opponents placed obstacles in his path.

Question 62

Which of the following did Richard Nixon not do early in his presidency?

A) reduce the regulatory powers of the federal government.
B) institute wage and price controls.
C) inaugurate affirmative action policies.
D) approve the vote for 18 year olds.
E) begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.

Question 63

What was the cause of the 1973-1974 oil embargo?

A) The United States was providing Israel with military equipment to repel the attack by Syria and Egypt.
B) Western Europe refused to agree to new OPEC price increases.
C) The Palestine Liberation Organization attempted to establish an independent Arab-Palestinian nation.
D) Egypt abandoned its alliance with Moscow and forge an alliance with Washington.
E) The United States refused to withdraw missiles from Turkey in exchange for Soviet withdrawal of missiles from Cuba

Question 64

Which of the following did not occur during the Nixon presidency?

A) Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency.
B) Environmentalists sponsored the first Earth Day.
C) The government initiated the Interstate Highway System.
D) Nixon proposed the Family Assistance Program.
E) Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Question 65

Richard Nixon's foreign-policy accomplishments included all of the following except

A) beginning negotiations to end the war in Vietnam.
B) checking Soviet expansionism.
C) limiting the nuclear-arms race.
D) overthrowing the communist government of Red China.
E) détente.

Question 66

If you were in San Francisco in 1966, what would you have found if you went to Haight Street?

A) The army recruiting office.
B) The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.
C) Macrobiotic food, LSD, and psychedelic music.
D) The headquarters of Young Americans for Freedom.
E) Students for a Democratic Society's main branch.

Question 67

What percentage of the American population was under the age of 30 in the 1960s?

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%
E) 50%

Question 68

In Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court ruled that

A) busing should be used to desegregate schools.
B) racial quotas are only applicable under limited circumstances.
C) school-sponsored prayer is unconstitutional.
D) states could not restrict women's constitutional right to abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy.
E) the death penalty was unconstitutional.

Question 69

Which of the following did not contribute to the "sexual revolution" during the 1960s?

A) The elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.
B) The waning fear of unwanted pregnancy because of the availability of contraceptives, particularly the Pill.
C) Greater permissiveness and openness about sexual activity.
D) The counterculture's "do your own thing" attitude.
E) New attitudes toward cohabitation and open marriage.

Question 70

Which music festival came to symbolize the 1960s counterculture?

A) Haight-Ashbury
B) Greenwich
C) Woodstock
D) Castle Rock
E) Carnegie Hall

Question 71

What did the experiences of late 1960s communes demonstrate?

A) Attempting to go against the Establishment led communal residents to drugs, venereal disease, and crime.
B) Most Americans would have accepted the communal ethic if the news media had portrayed it favorably.
C) Countercultures in the United States never can succeed or gain much following because of the power of the American ideology of family and sharing.
D) Groups that try to live a life of sharing closer to nature on rural communes will inevitably turn an urban neighborhood into an overcrowded, over-commercialized slum.
E) Some people sought to escape the urban-corporate world and live more naturally, but most communes were short-lived.

Question 72

Which of the following statements accurately describes the "Yippies"?

A) They were second highest grossing band from Great Britain in the 1960s.
B) They were a group of hippies who lived in a commune in New Mexico that practiced free love.
C) They part of the counterculture movement that wished to disrupt the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
D) They were a group of Nixon supporters who attempted to infiltrate the anti-war protest movement.
E) They were the remnants of a once proud Native American tribe that called for their independence from the United States.

Question 73

Which of the following statements correctly summarizes Richard Nixon's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China?

A) He opened up new initiatives with the Soviet Union in an effort to isolate the People's Republic, capitalizing on the Sino-Soviet split.
B) He listened to his hard-line anticommunist advisers and initiated a new and more hostile era of the Cold War against both powers.
C) He capitalized on their widening split by playing one power off against the other.
D) He attempted to improve relations with each country by offering to pull out of Vietnam.
E) He had ICBM missile bases built around the globe, within striking range of both t he Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

Question 74

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was ground-breaking because the book

A) argued that women were superior to men.
B) claimed that women should have more opportunities than only being a housewife.
C) asserted that women should be able express their sexuality freely and openly.
D) proposed that marriage as a legal institution be abolished.
E) challenged the Supreme Court's ruling that the birth control pill should only be made available to married women.

Question 75

From 1966 to 1968, students on campuses across America

A) transformed campus protests for curricular reform, less restrictive rules and freedom of speech into mass social movements.
B) shifted from protest to resistance.
C) demonstrated against the war and racism.
D) inspired protests among students in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico and South Korea.
E) All of these choices.

Question 76

Which of the following was not one of the approaches President Nixon took in an attempt to solve the nation's economic problems?

A) He expanded deficit spending.
B) He tried to reduce government expenditures.
C) He increased interest rates.
D) He imposed wage-and-price controls.
E) He implemented a huge corporate tax cut.

Question 77

Which of the following issues was not on the agenda of the National Organization for Women in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

A) Women should have equal employment opportunities.
B) Child care needed to be regulated and more readily available.
C) Abortion rights should be legalized.
D) Government programs should make it easier for women to remain at home with their children.
E) All of these were part of NOW's agenda.

Question 78

What did the SALT I agreement do?

A) It arranged for the Soviet Union's purchase of at least $750 million in American grain over a three-year period.
B) It brought about the end of the OPEC oil embargo.
C) It called for a phased withdrawal of American missiles and troops in Europe, in exchange for a comparable Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
D) It banned all chemical and biological weapons.
E) It froze each side's offensive nuclear missiles for five years.

Question 79

John Mitchell, E. Howard Hunt, and G. Gordon Liddy arranged the break-in at the Watergate complex in order to

A) find information about Daniel Ellsberg that would discredit him in the eyes of the peace movement.
B) destroy the Democratic National Committee's files of potential campaign contributors.
C) wiretap the telephone of the Democratic National Committee.
D) play a harmless prank on their political rivals.
E) retrieve evidence that Spiro Agnew had had an affair with an intern.

Question 80

Which of the following events did not occur in 1968?

A) The nomination of an antiwar Democratic candidate for president
B) The assassination of a prominent civil-rights leader
C) Violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
D) A political comeback by a Republican politician
E) The assassination of a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination