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American History: From Rolling Thunder to Persian Gulf War and Beyond, Quizzes of World History

Significant historical events in american politics and foreign policy from the vietnam war to the persian gulf war, including operation rolling thunder, the impact of the black power movement, the tet offensive, the watergate scandal, and the fall of the soviet union. It also highlights key figures such as martin luther king jr., malcolm x, and ronald reagan.

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TERM 1
Operation Rolling Thunder
DEFINITION 1
Began a full scale U.S. air offensive against North Vietnam
TERM 2
President Johnson's advisers convinced him
that
DEFINITION 2
Controlled military escalation could secure Vietnam
TERM 3
President Carter
DEFINITION 3
Most brilliant foreign policy
Victory was in mediating peace between Israel and Egypt
TERM 4
High- Ashbury
District
DEFINITION 4
Center of radical counter culture
1967's "summer of Love" brought thousands
Radicals preached a pro-drug message
Spurred growth of hippie districts on college campuses
TERM 5
Black Power/ Speeches of
DEFINITION 5
Celebrating African-American heritage
Controlling black communities through political activism
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
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Operation Rolling Thunder

Began a full scale U.S. air offensive against North Vietnam

TERM 2

President Johnson's advisers convinced him

that

DEFINITION 2

Controlled military escalation could secure Vietnam

TERM 3

President Carter

DEFINITION 3

Most brilliant foreign policy

Victory was in mediating peace between Israel and Egypt

TERM 4

High- Ashbury

District

DEFINITION 4

Center of radical counter culture

1967's "summer of Love" brought thousands

Radicals preached a pro-drug message

Spurred growth of hippie districts on college campuses

TERM 5

Black Power/ Speeches of

DEFINITION 5

Celebrating African-American heritage

Controlling black communities through political activism

Stokely Carmichael

Malcolm X

Black Power

Christian virtue in civil-rights strategies

Martin Luther King

TERM 7

Malcolm X

DEFINITION 7

Rivals within the Black Muslims

Considered limited acceptance of white culture

TERM 8

Impact of the "Tet Offensive" was magnified

by:

DEFINITION 8

T.V. initially showed a NVA (North Vietnamese Army)

victory

U.S. prediction American was near victory

U.S. embassy momentarily taken by NVA

TERM 9

The Tet Crisis

DEFINITION 9

Advisers told Lyndon Johnson the war was unwinnable

TERM 10

President Johnson did not run for reelection

DEFINITION 10

Overwhelmed by the war

Challenges within his party

Detente describes President Nixon's foreign

policy which eased tensions with

China

Soviet Union

TERM 17

The 'plumbers'

DEFINITION 17

members of Nixon administration engaged in illegal

acivities

TERM 18

Vietnam

DEFINITION 18

North Vietnam's representatives finally brought to

negotiating table after devastating U.S. bombing raids in

North Vietnam

TERM 19

DEFINITION 19

Nixon defeated the liberal candidate Gorge McGovern

White House tapes revealed President Nixon lied about

the Watergate cover up

TERM 20

Jimmy Carter won election of 1976

DEFINITION 20

Viewed as an alternative to Washington insiders

Order of Events

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Tet Offensive

LBJ drops out of presidential race

TERM 22

Headlines

DEFINITION 22

1968: Tet offensive stuns Army and American public

1974: Nixon to announce resignation tonight

1975: South Vietnamese Government is Saigon

surrenders

1979: Began Historic Accord at Camp David

TERM 23

Ronald Regan's Nickname

DEFINITION 23

Teflon President

TERM 24

Some of Regan's most articulate support

DEFINITION 24

feared the U.S. was losing influence

anti-communists from both parties

TERM 25

President Regan's strategic Defense

Initative

DEFINITION 25

Expensive defense plan was based on superlasers and

satellites

Results of Persian Gulf War

Civil War in Iraq

American military technology superior

Bush's goal to restore status qup

TERM 32

Persian Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet

Union

DEFINITION 32

U.S. must be the leader in maintaining an orderly world

TERM 33

Roman Catholic Church

DEFINITION 33

John Kennedy

TERM 34

Political stance safest in 1990's

DEFINITION 34

was in the center

TERM 35

Republicans contract with

America

DEFINITION 35

after they won the 1994 elections

CNN started in 1980

24 hour News Coverage began

TERM 37

Internet

DEFINITION 37

Concerns about defense and national security

TERM 38

1st Black Governor

DEFINITION 38

Douglas Wilder from Virginia

TERM 39

1st Woman named to the Supreme Court

DEFINITION 39

Sandra Day O'Connor

TERM 40

1st female Attorney General

DEFINITION 40

Janet Reno