Study Guide

for

Final Exam Spring 2009

Joseph McCarthy

“Beats”

America, Allen Ginsberg

GI Bill

Levittown

Duck and Cover

NAACP

CORE

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Brown v Board of Education

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creative tension

Jackie Robinson

Emmett Till

Rosa Parks

Thurgood Marshall

Southern Manifesto (Massive Southern Resistance)

“Little Rock Nine”

Orval Faubus

Greensboro Sit-In

March on Birmingham 1963

March on Washington 1963

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act 1965

Malcolm X

Nation of Islam

Elijah Muhammed

Watts riot 1965

Vietnam
What were the policies of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson regarding the conflict in Vietnam?

Ho Chi Minh

Viet Minh

Dien Bien Phu

Geneva Accords 1954

Ngo Dinh Diem

Strategic hamlets

Viet Cong

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Lyndon Johnson

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Operation Rolling Thunder

Tet Offensive 1968
John F. Kenney
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
LBJ
VISTA

Medicaid
student loans

Richard Nixon

“Vietminization”

Nixon Doctrine

Bombing of Cambodia 1969

Kent State protest

Withdrawal 1973
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Mario Savio
Columbia University protest 1968

War protests

Counter-culture

Timothy Leary

Summer of Love 1967

“Be-in”

Election 1968

Robert Kennedy

George Corley Wallace

Curtis LeMay

Richard Nixon

Spiro Agnes

1972 election

1972

China visit

SALT with Soviet Union

Watergate

G. Gordon Liddy

E. Howard Hunt

Gerald Ford

1973 Arab-Israeli War

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations)

Inflation

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Roe v Wade