Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
JetPunk Shop
Dark Mode
1970s US Quiz
This was made to study a test. You know the drill by now.
Rate:
Last updated: May 17, 2024
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | May 17, 2024 |
| Times taken | 9 |
| Average score | 70.6% | Report this quiz | Report |
20:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1.
Lyndon Johnson faced limited options during Vietnam. They failed to understand the extent of popular opposition to the official government in Saigon and the willingness of North Vietnam to sacrifice to achieve national unity.
True
✓
False
✓
2.
The US strategy on the ground was to search and destroy. As concieved by Westmoreland, it used sophisticated surveillance and heavily armed patrols to locate enemy detachments, which could then be destroyed by randomly placed landmines and nukes.
True
✓
False
✓
3.
The popular media also portrayed the conflicting visions of Vietnam War. Barry McGuire's "Eye of Destruction." climbed the charts. Folksinger Phil Ochs sang "I Ain't Marching Anymore." Supporters countered with an aging John Wayne in the movie The Green Berets.
True
✓
False
✓
4.
The Stonewall Rebellion was a catalyst for homosexuals to assert themselves as a political force. During the rebellion, patrons fought back when police raided the gay Stonewall Inn in New York. Soon after, they staged "gay pride" days and marches. The American Psychiatric Association decided to make homosexuality become part of the list of mental disorders.
True
✓
False
✓
5.
There were many other protests specifically attacking the Selective Service system. As the war expanded on and on, the administration tried to hold the allegiance of the middle class finding ways to exempt their sons from the service in Vietnam. As a result of this, most of the draftees were most of the upper class and rich guys.
True
✓
False
✓
6.
Which group/organization thought of itself as the "New Left"?
Students for a Democratic Society
✓
Women's Rights Society
✓
Black American Organization
✓
The Mexican Cartel
✓
7.
What movement was made to protest limitations on political activities on campus?
The Mount Lebanon March Movement
✓
The Counterculture Movement
✓
Women's Rights Movement
✓
Free Speech Movement
✓
8.
Which program invited residents to poor neighborhoods to write their own plans for using Federal funds to create better housing, education, health services and job opportunities?
Corporal Works of Mercy
✓
Jewish Defamation Program
✓
Model Cities Program
✓
Malcom X Marshall Arts
✓
9.
What was the main urban problem during the Urban Crisis
Minorities and the poor were concentrated in urban centers
✓
Postwar black immigrants to the north found themselves with limited access to better housing, should and jobs
✓
Cities faced decaying infastructure and high taxes
✓
All of the above
✓
10.
Johnson ordered a full-scale air offensive code-named _________
Rolling Thunder
✓
Operation Paper Trail
✓
Operation Flaming Dart
✓
Blitzkreg
✓
11.
Which book argued that the United States needed to recognize limits on its vast political and military power?
The Highest of the High
✓
The Political Power Book
✓
The Influence of Naval Sea Power
✓
Arrogance of Power
✓
12.
Which 2 movies took moviegoers through the twilight world of prostitution?
Stoner and Fugal
✓
Jack in the Box and Al Capone
✓
Klute and Taxi Driver
✓
Bladen and John C Callhoon
✓
13.
Which movie followed a drug dealer from Fifth avenue to empty and menacing warehouses?
The French Connection
✓
The Catcher In The Rye
✓
Blade Runner
✓
Frankenstein
✓
14.
Which movie showed a Los Angeles driven mad by corporate violence and isolation.
The French Connection
✓
Blade Runner
✓
King Kong
✓
Sanford and Son
✓
15.
Which book compared the American Military to big-game trophy hunters?
The Arrogance of Power
✓
Wizard of Oz
✓
Why Are We in Vietnam?
✓
Realists
✓
16.
What term came from a frustrated SNCC Leader Stokely Carmichael?
Bulgarian Power
✓
Green Power
✓
White Power
✓
Black Power
✓
17.
What developing movement was newly media oriented and used the term Red Power?
The Black American Movement
✓
American Indian Movement
✓
Nation of Islam
✓
Brown Power Movement
✓
Comments
No comments yet
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Mobile Site