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Then we will return to Don't Know Much About History.

Make sure you have turned in these questions

 Read Don't Know Much About History pages 476-496

Answer the following questions:

1) Who killed JFK and what are the theories around the assassination.

2) Discuss who Malcolm X was and how did he become a spokesperson for African-Americans? Who assassinated him?

3) What was Johnson's Great Society?

4) Discuss Nixon's Checkers speech. Why did he give it? How did the public respond?

5) What was the Bay of Pigs?

6) What was the Tonkin Resolution? Why is it important?

7) Why did Nixon lose the 1960 election?

8) Discuss the Feminine Mystique. 

 New Questions

9) Give some milestones of the Vietnam War. Why did the U.S. lose the war? 

10) What where the Wyatts Riots?

11) Discuss the Miranda law.

12) What did Muhammad Ali do in the 1960s to protest Vietnam?

13) Discuss the My Lai Massacre. 

14) What were the Pentagon Papers?