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Name___________________________ Chapter 29 Study Guide Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism Learning Objectives Describe the political effects of the assassination of JFK? Weigh the influence of increasing radicalism on the success of the civil rights movement? Assess the reasons behind and strength of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, and explain the reasons behind the ultimate defeat of the United States there? Explain the reasons for growing opposition to the Vietnam War? Assess the importance of the year 1968 in the world, and its effects on U.S. politics? How were the first three years of Johnson’s presidency legislatively one of the most productive periods ever? How did Lyndon Johnson use the legacy of John Kennedy plus his own political skill to erect his Great Society? How did the civil rights movement finally generate enough sympathy among whites to accomplish the legal end of segregation? How did containment and the U.S. preoccupation with communism lead the nation to use military force against leftist nationalist movements in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and, most disastrously, Vietnam? Name___________________________ How by looking at the Nixon- Kennedy debates does the theme of the 1960s become recognized? . Will history eventually weigh Lyndon Johnson’s successes more heavily than his shortcomings? Vocabulary Bay of Pigs Black Power Community Action Program Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Cuban missile crisis Dien Bien Phu Freedom rides Freedom summer George Wallace Great Society Gulf of Tonkin resolution Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh trail Immigration Act of 1965 Malcolm X March on Washington Medicaid Medicare New Frontier Name___________________________ Ngo Dinh Diem Richard Nixon Robert F. Kennedy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Tet offensive Viet Cong