![]() Nixon Incumbent president who was beset by growing anti-war sentiment and chose not to seek his party's nomination for re-election. Wallace Victorious Republican candidate who promised that his plan to end the Viet Nam War would bring the US "peace with honor" Richard M. ![]() B Segregationist and former Alabama Governor who won 5 states in the lower South when he ran as a third party candidate on the American Independent ticket George C. Youngs relates all of the following EXCEPT:Ī) When the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) barred African American singer Marian Anderson from singing in their auditorium, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her DAR membershipī) In the 1928 election, Eleanor Roosevelt proved true to her Republican roots by supporting Herbert Hoover for the presidencyĬ) Eleanor Roosevelt accepted President Truman's invitation to join America's UN delegation because she believed the UN offered the hope of a peaceful worldĭ) When Eleanor was younger, she found it both useful and personally gratifying to work among the poor in settlement houses. Board of Education and later became an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court was _.Į) Thurgood Marshall E In Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, author J. William Westmoreland, included: pacifying the countryside, training the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN), and conducting a war of attrition (killing more of "them" than they kill of "us").Į) All of the above are true E The African American lawyer who successfully argued the case of Brown v. Barry Goldwater Which statement is TRUE about the American War in Viet Nam?Ī) Although the 1968 Tet offensive was a serious military setback for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, they won a psychological victory because it eroded US public support for the war.ī) US military leaders conducting the war in Viet Nam believed that success would hinge, at least in part, on the principle of WHAM: Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Vietnamese people.Ĭ) The battle of Ia Drang (1965) was significant because it was one of the earliest battles that pitted US combat units against regular North Vietnamese forces.ĭ) Principle elements of the US strategy in Viet Nam, as voiced by Gen. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election. Board of Education decision, signed the 1956 "South Manifesto" Strom Thurmond US Senator (R-AZ), considered to be the first truly conservative presidential candidate, proposed increased bombing of North Viet Nam, and opposed Lyndon B. Joseph McCarthy US Senator (D-SC) was the 1948 States' Rights Party ("Dixiecrats") candidate and later, in reaction to the Brown v. Kennedy's presidential administration?Į) Cuban missile crisis B US Senator (R-WI) who conducted a campaign to identify and prosecute communists and communist sympathizers alleged to have infiltrated the US government. Paul Robeson In the 1968 Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attacked provincial capitals and seized the former imperial capital _, which remained in enemy hands for a month until US and Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) forces drove them out.Į) Hanoi E Which of the following did NOT occur during John F. He toured the world as a singer and actor and was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his activism against US racism. Medgar Evers A Rutgers University scholar and athlete, he earned a law degree at Columbia University. ![]() Malcom X A World War II veteran and civil rights activist who became the NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi and was murdered in a 1963 hate-crime. 14 year-old African American from Chicago who, while visiting family in Mississippi, was murdered for making a comment to a white woman Emmett Till African American civil rights leader who said African Americans needed to defend their lives and property if the government was unable or unwilling to do so.
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