FLASH CARD I.D.'S - define and state the significant causes and effects of each term.

 

1. Bay of Pigs
2. Flexible Response
3. New Frontier
4. War on Poverty
5. Great Society
6. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
7. Civil Rights Act of 1964
8. Cuban Missile Crisis
9. Voting Rights Act
10. Tet Offensive

SOCRATIC SEMINAR PROMPTS - select three of the following prompts and write a one paragraph response for each promt you select.

 

1.       What successes and failures did Kennedys New Frontier experience at home and abroad?

2.        How did the Civil Rights Movement progress from difficult beginnings to great successes in 1964-1965?  

3.   Why did the Civil Rights Movement encounter increasing opposition from both black militants and white back-lash after 1965?

4.       How did the assassination of John F. Kennedy is change American History in the 1960's?

5.   What were Lyndon Johnsons major domestic achievements, and why did they become overshadowed?

6.       What led the Unites States to become so deeply involved in the Vietnam War?  

7.   Why did the Vietnam War, and the domestic opposition to it, come to dominate American politics by the election of 1968?

8.       What were the long-term results of the counter-culture movement and how was the cultural upheaval of the 1960s related to the political and social changes of the decade?

9.   If you had been a "young person" in the 1960's, what would you have been involved in?  Who would you associate with and why?  What things would you be opposed to and why?