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.

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.

9. Communist dictator of Cuba that took power in

1959.

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.