Study questions for this week:
Chapter 18: The Impossible Victory
1. (pgs. 475-477) What was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
2. (pgs. 478-481) What was the My Lai massacre and its aftermath?
3. What were the Pentagon Papers and their significance?
4. (pgs. 493-496) Describe the grassroots anti-war efforts made by (former) GIs during the Vietnam War.
In preparing for the exam, you should know the dates, significance and relevance to other events of the following two dozen US historical milestones:
Plymouth, Bacon's Rebellion, Declaration of Independence, War for Independence, US Constitution, "Second War of Independence", Monroe Doctrine, Indian Removal Act, US-Mexican War, Civil War, Reconstruction Amendments, Compromise of 1877, Spanish-American War, US entry into WWI, US entry into WWII, Cold War, Civil Rights Act, Vietnam War, Equal Rights Amendment, Roe vs. Wade, Americans With Disabilities Act, Patriot Act, Affordable Care Act, Oberfell vs. Hodges
For the exam, please review your answers to the study questions from this blog over the course the semester, Mr. Lowman's slides, and the dates featured above. Please bring any questions you have to class for clarification.
Trump's Inaugural Speech: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript.html
Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddam": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM
Malcolm X "Ballot or the Bullet" 1964: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oVW3HfzXkg
Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms
My former university's president, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, speaking on civil rights and education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGaDlTKEx2E
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