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1 | | Describe John F. Kennedy's background and his plans for domestic legislation. How did Congress react to his New Frontier? |
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2 | | Describe the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination. What did the Warren Commission conclude? What doubts remain? |
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3 | | How did Lyndon Johnson differ from Kennedy in personality and in the ability to influence Congress? |
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4 | | What was the purpose of Medicare? Why was it controversial? |
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5 | | What agency was the "centerpiece" of the Great Society? What new approach to fighting poverty did it bring? |
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6 | | What were the main arguments against federal aid to education? How did Johnson's legislation manage to circumvent much of the opposition? |
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7 | | How did the effort to fund both the Great Society and a great military establishment affect the federal budget? |
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8 | | What did the Great Society accomplish? |
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9 | | Describe the increasing civil rights activism of the early 1960s. How did this protest movement lead to "the most important civil rights bill of the twentieth century"? |
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10 | | What events prompted passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 (Voting Rights Act)? |
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11 | | How did the focus of racial issues and the locus of the civil rights movement change in the mid- to late-1960s? |
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12 | | Describe the race riots of 1964 to 1967. What response did the Commission on Civil Disorder suggest? What response did many white Americans prefer? |
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13 | | What did "black power" mean? What impact did it have on the civil rights movement and on the attitudes of American blacks in general? |
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14 | | How did John F. Kennedy's approach to foreign policy contrast with Eisenhower's? What specific programs illustrated that difference? |
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15 | | What were the purpose and the result of the Bay of Pigs invasion? |
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16 | | What precipitated the Cuban missile crisis? How was it resolved? What was its legacy? |
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17 | | Why did Lyndon Johnson send troops to the Dominican Republic? Was the action reminiscent of the interventions in the days of the Roosevelt Corollary? |
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18 | | Describe the Diem regime and its war effort up to 1963. What led to the coup and assassination that ended his rule? |
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19 | | Recount the stages of Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War up to 1967. Why did the conflict become a "quagmire"? |
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20 | | Why did America's two-fold strategy of "attrition" and "pacification" fail? |
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21 | | Describe the war protest movement. How did it move from the streets into Congress and the administration? |
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22 | | How did involvement in Vietnam affect the American economy and the Great Society? |
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23 | | Why can the Tet Offensive be characterized as "a military victory for the United States, but...a political defeat for the administration"? |
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24 | | How did the nation respond to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.? |
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25 | | Describe the turmoil within the Democratic Party in 1968. How did Richard Nixon and George Wallace exploit this turmoil and the general national mood in the 1968 presidential election? |
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26 | | How have historians differed in their explanations for the involvement of the United States in Vietnam? |
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27 | | Why was 1968 such a tumultuous year around much of the world as well as in the United States? |
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