Expansion of the Vietnam War

Question 1

Identify each statement as being an example of mainstream society or the counterculture.Breaking laws you feel are wrong Adopting a popular hairstyle trendSharing a communal farm with many other people Building a fence around your house to keep out strangers

Revolt · Accepted Answer

mainstream; counterculture

Question 2

Which of these ideas were part of the hippie movement?Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

peace and love; flower power; free love

Question 3

Which Beat ideal is reflected in the passage?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

wanderlust - the desire to travel

Question 4

How does the song reflect the counterculture’s ideas?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The singer wishes for an end to conflict, but does not know when it will come.

Question 5

Using what you have just learned, select the reasons why American sentiment turned against the war in Vietnam over the course of the 1960s.Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

More and more Americans were killed in Vietnam.; The enemy in Vietnam was unclear.; The draft disproportionately targeted low-income men.; US goals in Vietnam were uncertain and hard to achieve.

Question 6

Which of the following tactics were used by people who protested the Vietnam War?Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

sit-ins; joining student groups like SDS; burning draft cards; marching on Washington, DC

Question 7