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The draft, campus protest, the credibility gap and the counterculture of the Vietnam years.
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On March 24 and 25, 1965, faculty at the University of Michigan set aside regular classes for an all-night program of lectures and debate about the war in Vietnam for about 3,000 students. What was this new form of campus protest called?
On October 15, 1969, an estimated two million Americans took the day off work and school for rallies, vigils and marches against the war in towns and on campuses across the country. What was this nationwide day of protest called?
A 47-volume Defense Department history of American decision making in Vietnam, ordered by Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967 and classified secret, was leaked to newspapers in 1971. By what name are those documents known?
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an antiwar demonstration on an Ohio campus, killing four students and wounding nine others. At which university did the shootings happen?
Congress proposed it on March 23, 1971 and the states ratified it by July 1, 1971, the fastest ratification in US history. It answered the complaint that a man could be drafted at eighteen but could not vote. Which amendment was it?
Founded in 1960, this campus organization issued the Port Huron Statement in 1962 and grew into the largest New Left student group of the decade, organizing early national protests against the war. Which organization was it?
In the debate over Vietnam, members of Congress who pushed for more troops and heavier bombing were called hawks. What were those who pressed for withdrawal and a negotiated settlement called?
In April 1971 about a thousand veterans of the war camped near the Lincoln Memorial and ended their week of protest by throwing medals, ribbons and discharge papers onto the Capitol steps. Which organization staged this protest?
Under the II-S deferment, a man enrolled full time at a college could postpone induction for as long as he stayed in school. Which men did that rule leave most exposed to being called up?
On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service drew 366 capsules of birth dates on live television and gave each date a number fixing the order of call. Which earlier practice did this drawing replace?
In April 1967 the heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali reported to the induction center in Houston and refused three times to step forward, citing his religious beliefs. What happened to him within hours of that refusal?
On April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced on television that American ground troops had crossed into Cambodia to attack enemy bases there. What followed on American campuses over the next days?
The leaked Defense Department study of Vietnam showed that officials had privately doubted claims about the war's progress that they were making in public. Which problem, already named by reporters in the 1960s, did its publication deepen?
The War Powers Resolution, passed over President Nixon's veto in 1973, orders the president to report to Congress within 48 hours of sending armed forces into hostilities. What must happen if Congress does not authorize the deployment?
A federal study team led by Daniel Walker reviewed statements from more than 3,000 witnesses to the street clashes outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. What term did its December 1968 report use for the police response?
Officers fired for about thirty seconds at students and a women's dormitory at Jackson State College in Mississippi on May 15, 1970, killing two young men. What did the President's Commission on Campus Unrest later call the shooting?
In a televised address on November 3, 1969, President Nixon said: "North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that." What position does that line state?
A student organization's 1962 founding statement opened: "We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." What does that sentence say about its authors?
Weeks after a surprise enemy offensive during the lunar new year holiday, CBS anchor Walter Cronkite said on February 27, 1968: "To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion." What was he telling viewers?
On April 22, 1971, a decorated Navy veteran speaking for an organization of antiwar veterans asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" What position does that question state?
Ruling in June 1971 against the government's effort to stop newspapers printing the leaked Vietnam study, Justice Hugo Black wrote: "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." What position does the line state?
In the late 1960s groups of young Americans left cities for shared rural households where land, work, housing and income were held in common instead of each family keeping its own job and home. What were these settlements called?
Papers such as the Berkeley Barb, the Los Angeles Free Press and the East Village Other printed cheaply, ran antiwar reporting and rock criticism the daily papers would not carry, and traded articles freely. What was this network called?
In August 1969 roughly 400,000 people gathered for four days of music on Max Yasgur's dairy farm near Bethel, New York, after two nearby towns refused the promoters a permit. By what name is that festival known?
Timothy Leary, a psychologist dismissed from Harvard over his drug research, promoted LSD and told a crowd of about 30,000 in Golden Gate Park in January 1967 to "turn on, tune in, drop out." What was he urging his listeners to do?
Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 single "Fortunate Son," written by John Fogerty, sets the men sent to fight against the sons of senators and the wealthy. Which complaint about the draft does the song voice?
Put these three in order: Congress authorizes the president to take all necessary measures after reported attacks on US destroyers; the first national antiwar march on Washington; the surprise enemy offensive during the lunar new year.
Which came first: the televised drawing of birth dates that fixed the order of induction; the clashes between police and demonstrators outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention; or Nixon's address asking the "silent majority" for support?
Put these three in order: the shooting of students by police at Jackson State College in Mississippi; the passage of the War Powers Resolution over a presidential veto; the ratification of the amendment that lowered the voting age to eighteen.
Which of these came last: veterans throwing their medals onto the Capitol steps in Washington; the four-day music festival on a dairy farm near Bethel, New York; the nationwide day of rallies and vigils against the war held in October 1969?
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