American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 30: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY

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This 1964 dispute over the rights of students to engage in political activities on campus, otherwise known as the Free Speech Movement, touched off nearly a decade of turmoil on college campuses across the nation. At what college did this occur?
A)Kent State
B)University of Michigan
C)University of California at Berkeley
D)Harvard
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Here, angry student protestors convene at the Pentagon. Two years before the Free Speech Movement of 1964, a group of mostly white students gathered in Michigan and made an influential declaration of their disillusionment with society and their plans to build a new politics. This declaration was called the
A)"Silent Majority."
B)Raza Unida.
C)Pentagon papers.
D)Port Huron Statement.
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Guard and protestors face off at the 1967 Pentagon march. While most student protests were relatively peaceful, some small groups of especially dogmatic radicals splintered off from mainstream organizations and began to advocate violent tactics. Among these groups were the
A)Beatles.
B)"Silent Majority."
C)Weathermen.
D)Counterculture.
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With its upfront political content, transcendent spiritual message, and imagery of doves, this anti-war poster shares much in common with the aesthetic of
A)Altamont.
B)Woodstock.
C)Watergate.
D)Dali.
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Despite the change in leadership in Washington in 1968, the war dragged on. In this picture, U.S. troops patrol the Vietnamese jungle. Which of the following was not part of President Nixon's Vietnam strategy, as devised by National Security advisor Henry Kissinger?
A)escalation
B)Vietnamization
C)"peace with honor"
D)termination
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In this photograph, an American B-52 bomber takes off from the Marianas Islands to bomb targets in Vietnam. Into which nation did Richard Nixon extend the American bombing campaign in 1970, much to the dismay of the student antiwar movement?
A)Cambodia
B)Chile
C)East Timor
D)North Korea
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Richard Nixon meets with key aides in the Oval Office, among them H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman—both of whom later went to prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate matter. While Haldeman and Ehrlichman fell on their swords for Nixon when asked, the White House counsel did not and instead reported Nixon's misdeeds to the Ervin committee. Who was he?
A)Daniel Ellsberg
B)John Sirica
C)John Dean
D)Spiro Agnew
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In the end, Richard Nixon escaped impeachment and conviction for the Watergate affair by becoming the first President in American History to resign from the office. What was the "smoking gun" that ensured Nixon's fate?
A)the "Saturday Night Massacre"
B)the resignation of Spiro Agnew for bribes and tax evasion
C)the testimony of John Dean before the Ervin Committee
D)the tape of Nixon stopping the FBI investigation into Watergate
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