Pages 693-699 Chapter 28

1. In what ways did the presidential election of 1960 dramatize the new trend in American politics and government? What did John Kennedy have to over come to be elected President? What did Kennedy's New Frontier try to do? What factors limited his success?

2. What was going on in the Space race?

Pages 708-709

1. What explains President Kennedy's actions in the Bay of Pigs?

2. In the Cold War two major events happened during the Kennedy years: the Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crises. What were the causes of these and the effect?

Pages 701-707

1. What were the major accomplishments of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society? How did the Great Society compare with the reforms of the progressive era and the New Deal?

2. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and voting Rights Act of 1965 do? What does Malcolm X stand for? Who are SNCC and the Black Panthers?

3. Why was the Warren Court called an activist court? What areas did it rule on the make it an activist court? Why do some people today disagree with many of its rulings?

4. What were the problems of the Great Society?

Pages 710-717
1. Why and how did Presidents Kennedy and Johnson escalate the United States' involvement in Vietnam? What was the significance of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in the process of escalation?

2. What was the importance of the Tet Offensive, My Lai, Kent State and the Pentagon Papers on the course of the war and/or the American perception of it? What do you think the textbook is trying to do with the pictures in this part (pages 710 and 713)?

3. What did the New Left try and change? What was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) all about? What is happening at Universities between January and June of 1968?

4. What characterized the "counterculture"? What was "Tune in, turn on, drop out" all about? What do you see as results of the "counterculture"? Who is assassinated in 1968? What happen at the Chicago Democratic convention? Why did it happen? Why does Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew win the 1968 election?