Name: ________________________________________ Date: __________________
Civil
Rights and The Stormy Sixties: The New Frontier, the Great Society, and
1) Describe the effects of the “Jim Crow” laws as they still existed in the early 1950s.
2) Describe the goals of Wendell Wilkie as outlined in his book One World.
3) What was the SCLC, and what were its methods? Who/what kinds of people joined it?
4) What was SNCC, and what were its methods? Who/what kinds of people joined it?
5) Skip
to page 898. What were the provisions of
the Geneva Accords regarding
6) Skip to page 900. Describe the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959. What were its goals?
7) What events led to “rocket fever,” or as it was known then, the “Space Race?”
8) Explain the U-2 incident, and its impact of US foreign relations.
9) Why
did Castro win in
10) Describe the possible impact of the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates.
11) Read the section An Old General Fades Away carefully. Why is appreciation for President Eisenhower growing as time passes?
12) You will need to familiarize yourself with both the authors and the books/plays, etc that are listed on pages 906 - 908.
‚ Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
‚ John Steinbeck;
East of
‚ Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead
‚ James Jones: From Here to Eternity
‚ James Gould Cozzens: Guard of Honor
‚ Joseph Heller: Catch-22
‚ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Slaughterhouse 5
‚ John Updike: Rabbit, Run; Couples
‚ Gore Vidal:
‚ Robert Lowell: For the Union Dead
‚
‚ Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
‚ Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
‚ Richard Wright: Native Son
‚ Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
‚ James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
‚ LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka: Dutchman
‚ Robert Penn: All the King’s Men
‚ William Styron: The Confessions of Nat Turner
‚ J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the
‚ Bernard Malamud: The Assistant
‚ Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog
‚ E.L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel (Ragtime and World’s Fair, although written well after the 1950s and 1960s, are also on the “need to be familiar with” list.)
Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties
1)What was the role of the FBI under RFK’s leadership? What did it leave out? Why?
2)Explain President Kennedy’s tax policies as outlined by his actions early in his Presidency.
3)What were President DeGaulle’s main objections to the “Atlantic Community?” Do you think that they were justified - why or why not?
4)What
was the
5)Why
did the
6)Explain
the Cuban Missile Crisis and President Kennedy’s solution. Was this “game of
nuclear chicken” a good policy for the
7)Looking back - was James Meredith’s degree worth the price; or were there other ways to achieve integration?
8)What events prompted President Kennedy to move toward a Civil Rights bill? What was its fate - why?
9)What was President Johnson’s reputation in the Senate? How did the practices that got him the name help or hinder his abilities as President?
10)What were the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
11)What was Barry Goldwater’s platform in 1964? How and why did it turn off voters?
12)Explain how the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was “Grandma’s nightshirt.”
13)Describe the major provisions/bills passed to fight the “War on Poverty.” What were the collective goals - more than eradicate poverty - but how?
14)Explain the provisions and impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
15)Describe and compare/contrast the vision and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and Malcolm X.
16)Why
did President Johnson intervene in the
17)How was the Vietnam war becoming more “Americanized?” Why?
18)What
were the international results of our frustrations in
19)What
were the domestic results of our frustrations in
20)What
was the CIA’s role in the domestic unrest in the
21)What were the political results of the Tet Offensive - in detail, please!
22) On page 932 is a section entitled “The Obituary of Lyndon Johnson.” What happened to Johnson’s major dreams – the Great Society and maintaining “Containment?”
23) Who were the major democratic candidates of the 1968 presidential primary season? What did they stand for?
24) Who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy – and why?
25)Describe the atmosphere and the sad irony of the Democratic Convention in 1968.
26)Explain the ideas and ideals that made Richard M. Nixon the “ideal” Republican candidate in 1968. What did he stand for, what did he promise?
27)Explain
the platform and campaign of George Wallace of
28)What was Nixon’s “mandate” resulting from the 1968 election? Why was this a problem?
29)What is the legacy of President Johnson? (Civil Rights, War)?
30)What did the “Free Speech Movement” stand for - beyond free speech?
31)Explain the “Counterculture.”
32)How would you answer the question on page 936: The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive? Explain your answer.