Civil+Rights,+Vietnam,+and+More+Test+Study+Guide+11-12



__**POTENTIAL ESSAYS/DISCUSSION QUESTIONS**__ __**Miscellaneous**__ ***BE SURE TO CONSIDER the importance of context when experiencing something*** __**Civil Rights**__
 * Essays analyzing and interpreting the song lyrics to any of the songs listed later are fair game. (These songs are listed at the bottom of this page)
 * How do all of the events in April 1968 mentioned on this website demonstrate the major issues in America in the time before, during, and after that month?
 * What was the role of televised debates in 1960 Nixon/Kennedy presidential election?
 * Describe and analyze the ideology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in the Civil Rights Movement.
 * What was the impact of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert F. Kennedy on the Civil Rights Movement?
 * Assess the roles of the judicial branch, legislative branch, and executive branch in promoting civil rights during the Civil Rights Movement.
 * Compare and contrast the methods, goals, and outcomes of at least four different methods of Civil Rights protests in the 1950s and 1960s. (consider the map activity)
 * What were some primary ways resistance to the Civil Rights Movement occurred in the South between in the 1950s and 1960s? (read the question carefully)

__**Vietnam and/or Hippies**__
 * What was the impact of the media in the Vietnam War?
 * Assess the Vietnam policy of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations and the shift of public opinion about the war.
 * Analyze the socio-economic composition of the American forces recruited and/or drafted to fight in the war.
 * Analyze the impact that the Vietnam War left on the United States.
 * Be able to interpret any of the quotes from the Shmoop readings.
 * Analyze the societal/cultural factors that led to the counterculture movement.
 * Analyze the reality of hippie life in 1960s San Francisco.

__**TIMELINE: Know these dates/events by heart!**__ 1954 - Brown v. Topeka Board of Education 1959(1964)-1973(5) – 2nd Indochina War (Vietnam War) 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, JFK Assassinated 1964 – Civil Rights Act 1968*** -- Know the major events from this year (again see this website for more information on 1968) 1969 – Woodstock, US lands on the moon

**SOME KEY TERMS (p. numbers in parentheses) Civil Rights**
 * 1954 - Brown v. Topeka Board of Education – “Separate but Equal is Inherently Unequal” (911, 913)
 * Definitions and examples of de jure and de facto (definitions on p. 933, examples have to be from outside book)
 * NAACP (909)
 * Civil Rights Act of 1964 (923)
 * Freedom Summer, 24th Amendment (926-927)
 * Voting Rights Act of 1965 (930)
 * Black Power (934-935)
 * Civil Rights Act of 1968 (940)
 * Affirmative action (940-941)
 * Vietnam (several definitions already in Keynote)
 * Defoliant (986)
 * “on paper”
 * Vietnamization (973)
 * Ho Chi Minh Trail (map on 965)
 * Agent Orange
 * Tet Offensive (965-966)
 * Tonkin Gulf Incident & Resolution (954-955)
 * Hawks & Doves (989)
 * War Powers Act (979)
 * Hippies & Counterculture
 * Generation gap (970)
 * Haight-Ashbury
 * Woodstock

__**BE SURE TO STUDY:**__ p. 909: School segregation, 1952 p. 918: Freedom Rides, 1961 p. 940: African-American Gains in the Civil Rights Movement p. 940: busing p. 961 - US Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1972 p. 1004-1005 – Hippie Counterculture
 * Vietnam Keynote
 * Book - Chapter 28 Section 1 questions along with the following:

Shmoop! -- In addition to quote analysis, know the following stats from http://www.shmoop.com/vietnam-war/statistics.html
 * the percentage of Americans who thought the U.S. made a mistake sending troops to fight in Vietnam: What year did a majority of Americans 1st think the US had made a mistake?
 * American v. Vietnamese deaths (consider all estimates)
 * Year in which the highest number of American deaths were reported in Vietnam: 1968 (16,592 deaths reported)
 * The age at which a U.S. serviceman was most likely to die in the Vietnam War: 20


 * MR. MAP: Be able to recognize the cities from the Civil Rights Movement activity on a map and be able to explain their significance to this unit in US History.***

__**SONGS**__ Listen to the songs here!-** Music From This Time Period -** This site has a link to all of the "required" songs for this unit with the exception of "Imagine," "[|Yellow Submarine]" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."
 * Students will need to recognize the song and then describe the historical context of each song.***

__**Civil Rights**__ “Blowin’ in the Wind” or “The Times They Are a Changin” “Abraham, Martin, and John” “Say it Loud” or “Fight the Power” “Oxford Town”

__**Vietnam**__ “Fortunate Son” “Give Peace a Chance” “War” “Ohio”

__**Hippies**__ “San Francisco” “Okie from Muskogee” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” or “Yellow Submarine” “Imagine” (only need to know this one if taught in class before the test)