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Assessment 19.

1a. NVA and Vietcong forces attacked the U.S. military base at Khe Sanh because they were in conflict with
them.
1b. The Tet Offensive differs from previous fighting in Vietnam because they fought in a different area then
before.
1c. Yes, because many major events happened during the Tet Offensive.

2a. Walter Cronkite's views on the war after the Tet Offensive was that he wanted to stop fighting.
2b. President Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968 because he wasn't doing much to improve
conditions with Vietnam.
2c. Robert S. McNamara changed his mind about the Vietnam War because of all of the events happening
there.

3a. Americans did not like him because he opposed the civil rights movement and school desegregation.
3b. I don't know what I would have done if I could have given President Johnson advice.

4a. Nixon won the election of 1968.


4b. The goal of the protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention was civil rights and school
desegregation.
4c. It will either prolong it or end it.

Asessment 19.4

1a. President Nixon's Madman Theory was a theory about the vietnam war.
1b. Henry Kissinger was Richard Nixon's key foreign policy adviser, a Harvard history professor. Kissinger
was prepared to use force to compel the North Vietnamese to reach a peace agreement. He believed North
Vietnam had a breaking point. Together Nixon and Kissinger were to extend the war before achieving a peace
settlement.
1c. I think Nixon's Vietnamization did not work that well.

2a. The silent majority was the majority of people who didn't voice their opinions.
2b. Americans viewed the My Lai massacre as a horrific event.
2c. Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers because he craved fame.

3a. President Nixon won re-election in 1972 because his opponent opposed major issues such as desegregation
and civil rights.
3b. Nixon defeated George McGovern by so wide a margin in the 1972 election because Nixon promised an
end to the war.
3c. No, it just caused more tension with Vietnam.

4a. The War Powers Act was a law which reaffirmed Congress's constitutional right to declare war.
4b. So many people left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon because they were afraid of another bombing by the
U.S.

Assessment 18.4

1a. Jackie Robinson was the first black MLB player.


1b. The NAACP and CORE were similar because they both were fighting for civil rights.
1c. I think segregated education will come to an end.
2a. Brown vs. Board of Education
2b. African American students want to be treated equally.
2c. They were very successful in desegregating schools.

3a. The goal of the SCLC was civil rights in a peaceful way.
3b. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white person on the bus.
3c. Yes it did because it made it visible to the nation that African Americans were going to continue to fight for
their equal rights.

Asessment 18.5

1a. The task fell to his successor as the head of the SCLC, Ralph Abernathy.
1b. The Poor People’s Campaign failed because it wasn’t a well thought out plan.
1c. Martin Luther King Jr. saw that poverty was also something unequal between not just blacks but every race.

2a. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI weakened the Black Panthers because they turned their leader against them.
2b. The Cold War influenced them because they wanted to make the blacks equal as much as they wanted to be
equal.

3a. Busing was boycotting the bus system.


3b. It was much more physical.
3c. Many people oppose affirmative action because they don’t want change and they don’t want to look at the
fact that they were wrong and pay reparations for what America has done in the past.

Assessment 20.1

1a. The Feminine Mystique was a movement for women’s rights and the equality of women.
1b. The Feminine Mystique inspired the women’s movement because it gave women inspiration and drive to
keep fighting for equality.
1c. Women were expected to do the laundry, cook, and care for the children and the home as a whole.

2a. Feminism is the conviction that women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal.
2b. Roe v. Wade was controversial because abortion is a topic that is still debated today.
2c. The women’s movement was a success because it is a step in the right direction.

3a. The Declaration of Indian Purpose was a declaration which marked the beginning of what became known
as the Red Power movement. A new sense of unity.
3b. Native Americans disliked greatly the federal government’s termination policy.

4a. The American Indian Movement was American Indian’s fight for equality with the rest of the nation.
4b. The occupation of Alcatraz affected AIM because the government came and forced them off the land.
4c. It was not successful.

Assessment 20.2

1a. Hispanic encompasses all people of Spanish-speaking ancestry whereas Latinos are strictly from Mexico.
1b. They didn’t get equal education, economic, and political opportunities.
1c. In the 1960s it was a drawback.

2a. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta helped migrant workers in American and mostly California.
2b. Farmworkers pressured grape growers to address their demands.
2c. Yes, it would have been worse.

3a. Chicano and boricua are both slang turms for Hispanic people in America.
3b. Jose Angel Gutierrez was not doing well in his situation.
3c.I think they had the most success with The Crusade for Justice.

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