POINTS TO KNOW    Chp. 29

 

AP History Students should be able to explain:

 

1. Kennedy’s failure to enact significant domestic legislation.

 

2. Kennedy’s approach to foreign policy.

 

3. The origins and evolution of a grass-roots movement for racial equality.

 

4. Johnson’s approach to his war on poverty.

 

5. The results of the Great Society’s legislative program.

 

6. The growing American military commitment in Vietnam.

 

7. The positions and arguments of Hawks and Doves.

 

8. The factors contributing to Nixon’s victory in 1968.

 

9. Nixon’s domestic program.

 

10. The policy of “Vietnamization.”

 

11. Domestic events following Nixon’s incursion into Cambodia.

 

12. The policy of détente.

 

13. The reasons for Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972.

 

14. The sequence of events, beginning with the Watergate break-in, which led to Nixon’s resignation.

Define the following:

  1. “sit-in”
  2. freedom rides
  3. “search and destroy”
  4. “superpower mentality”
  5. executive privilege
  6. “the best and the brightest”
  7. “expletive deleted”

Describe the following:

  1. Vietcong
  2. Warren Commission
  3. Montgomery bus boycott
  4. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  5. Job Corps
  6. Head Start
  7. SALT I
  8. CREEP
  9. Medicare/Medicaid
  10. Operation Mongoose
  11. Minutemen
  12. “I Have a Dream”

Identify the following:

  1. Robert S. McNamara
  2. Lee Harvey Oswald
  3. Malcolm X
  4. Barry M. Goldwater
  5. Eugene McCarthy
  6. Robert F. Kennedy
  7. Hubert H. Humphrey
  8. George C. Wallace
  9. George Ball
  10. Henry A. Kissinger
  11. George S. McGovern
  12. John J. Sirica