UNIT 9 QUICK SHEET – VIETNAM AND SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
IDENTIFICATIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Ho Chi Minh
“Domino Theory”
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietcong
Napalm and Agent Orange
Tet Offensive
Hawks and doves
Kent State Shooting
My Lai Massacre
Students for a Democratic
Society
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Vietnamization
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act
26th Amendment
Counterculture
Woodstock
National Organization for
Women
18. Title IX
19. Office of Equal Opportunity
20. Equal Rights Amendment
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
Roe v. Wade
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
Stonewall Riots
HIV/AIDS epidemic
Miranda v. Arizona
white flight
Affirmative action
University of California Regents
v. Bakke
30. Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Huerta
La Raza Unida
American Indian Movement
Wounded Knee (1973)
Silent Spring
Environmental Protection
Agency
36. Three Mile Island
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
QUESTIONS
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
What happened at the Gulf of Tonkin? What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
What were some of the main arguments for and against America’s involvement in Vietnam?
What impact did the Pentagon Papers have on public opinion?
How did the SDS and Free Speech Movement show the frustration of America’s youth with the status quo?
What were some of the core beliefs of the counterculture? How is this different from previous generations?
In what ways did new legislation change women’s lives during the 1960s and 1970s?
What were the goals of the ERA? What were some of the reasons people opposed it?
How did Americans originally view the AIDS epidemic? What event helped change that view?
What was the reason behind the creation of the United Farm Workers and their strike in the late 1960s?
Why did the AIM occupy Alcatraz and Wounded Knee? What was the long-term result of these protests?
Why was Rachel Carson so worried about the use of DDT? How did her book usher in the environmentalist movement?
What were the goals of affirmative action policies? How did this negatively affect Allan Bakke?
UNIT 9 QUICK SHEET – VIETNAM AND SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
IDENTIFICATIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Ho Chi Minh
“Domino Theory”
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietcong
Napalm and Agent Orange
Tet Offensive
Hawks and doves
Kent State Shooting
My Lai Massacre
Students for a Democratic
Society
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Vietnamization
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act
26th Amendment
Counterculture
Woodstock
National Organization for
Women
18. Title IX
19. Office of Equal Opportunity
20. Equal Rights Amendment
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
Roe v. Wade
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
Stonewall Riots
HIV/AIDS epidemic
Miranda v. Arizona
white flight
Affirmative action
University of California Regents
v. Bakke
30. Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Huerta
La Raza Unida
American Indian Movement
Wounded Knee (1973)
Silent Spring
Environmental Protection
Agency
36. Three Mile Island
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
QUESTIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
What happened at the Gulf of Tonkin? What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
What were some of the main arguments for and against America’s involvement in Vietnam?
What impact did the Pentagon Papers have on public opinion?
How did the SDS and Free Speech Movement show the frustration of America’s youth with the status quo?
What were some of the core beliefs of the counterculture? How is this different from previous generations?
In what ways did new legislation change women’s lives during the 1960s and 1970s?
What were the goals of the ERA? What were some of the reasons people opposed it?
How did Americans originally view the AIDS epidemic? What event helped change that view?
What was the reason behind the creation of the United Farm Workers and their strike in the late 1960s?
Why did the AIM occupy Alcatraz and Wounded Knee? What was the long-term result of these protests?
Why was Rachel Carson so worried about the use of DDT? How did her book usher in the environmentalist movement?
What were the goals of affirmative action policies? How did this negatively affect Allan Bakke?
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