THESE LAWS enforced segregation between the races in the South prior to the civil rights movement.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
President Kennedy ran against this REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE in the presidential election.
Who is Nixon?
100
John became president after THIS EVENT.
What is the assassination of JFK?
100
The war in Vietnam was a proxy war of this LARGER CONFLICT between the US and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
100
This FORM OF PROTEST is when a group of people stops buying or using a service or product to economically hurt a company or system they oppose.
What is a boycott?
200
President Eisenhower sent troops into THIS SOUTHERN CITY to enforce the desegregation of a high school there.
What is Little Rock?
200
Kennedy approved this poorly-planned CIA INVASION of Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
200
Despite his positive record on civil rights, President Johnson's is often remembered negatively for increasing US involvement in THIS COUNTRY.
What is Vietnam?
200
US leaders justified involvement in Vietnam with THIS THEORY, which said that is Vietnam fell to communism, it's neighbors would fall after it.
What is domino theory?
200
This type of historical source is created during the time period of the event.
What is a primary source?
300
This civil rights LAWYER from the Brown v. Board of Education case became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This INVESTIGATION into the assassination of President Kennedy concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy.
What is the Warren Commission?
300
THIS RESOLUTION allowed President Johnson to send troops to Vietnam without ever officially declaring war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
The US sprayed THIS HERBICIDE over Vietnam's forests in an effort to disrupt the enemy's food supply, with devastating effects on plant life and human health.
What is Agent Orange?
300
You need to use at least THIS MANY sources in your research paper.
What is 5?
400
During Freedom Summer, student activists traveled to THIS STATE, which was particularly brutal for African-Americans, to help register voters and open Freedom Schools.
What is Mississippi?
400
During THIS CRISIS, Kennedy publicly blamed Khrushchev and implemented a naval blockade of Cuba, but also made a secret agreement to remove US missile sites near the Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban missile crisis?
400
Although President Johnson was a white Southerner, he worked hard behind the scenes to get Congress to pass these TWO ACTS (name one) in 1964 and 1965.
What are the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act?
400
Although THIS ATTACK by the Vietcong failed, its size shocked Americans because it showed how committed the communists were to their cause.
What is the Tet Offensive?
400
Americans who supported the war in Vietnam were known as THIS.
BONUS: Why did they support the war?
What are hawks?
BONUS:
--They believed in containment and domino theory (and therefore that it was necessary to keep spending money and lives).
--They believed it was unpatriotic to protest the war.
500
THIS PROTEST focused on interstate transportation (buses going between states) because it was regulated by federal law and therefore should not have allowed segregation.
What are the Freedom Rides?
500
Kennedy created THIS POLICY because he wanted the country to be ready to fight any size conflict, not just nuclear war.
What is "flexible response"?
500
Johnson created a set of programs, including Headstart, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamps, as part of his vision for America, which he NAMED THIS.
What is the Great Society?
500
Nixon tried to end with the war with THIS PLAN, in which US forces pulled out and allowed Southern Vietnamese forces to fight its own battles.
What is Vietnamization?
500
Americans who opposed the war in Vietnam were known as THIS.
BONUS: Why did they oppose the war?
What are doves?
BONUS:
--They believed it was a civil war that the US had no business interfering in. It was not a Cold War battleground.
--They believed it distracted attention and drained resources from problems at home, such as civil rights and poverty (Great Society programs)