Civil Rights Leaders
This woman’s arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation by overturning “separate but equal” in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
This 1963 protest is famous for MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
March on Washington
This idea claimed that if one nation fell to communism, nearby nations would follow.
Domino Theory
This movement protested U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Anti-war movement
This leader promoted nonviolent civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This law ended segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Arkansas event required Eisenhower to send troops to enforce desegregation.
Little Rock 9 / Little Rock Crisis
This resolution gave the president broad military power in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18 during the Vietnam era.
26th amendment
This NAACP attorney argued Brown v. Board of Education.
Thurgood Marshall
This law ended literacy tests and protected African American voting rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This group used militant tactics and armed patrols to defend Black communities.
Black Panthers
This surprise 1968 attack weakened American support for the war.
Tet Offensive
This term describes the gap between what officials said about the war and what Americans saw in the news.
Credibility gap
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and became a key Chicano movement figure.
Dolores Huerta
This federal agency was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to stop workplace discrimination.
EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
This movement promoted Mexican American civil rights and better working conditions.
Chicano Movement
This Nixon policy shifted combat responsibility from U.S. troops to South Vietnamese forces.
Vietnamization
Nixon used this phrase to describe Americans who supported his Vietnam policy.
Silent Majority
This governor resisted school desegregation in Arkansas during the Little Rock Crisis.
Orval Faubus
This Supreme Court case said segregation was constitutional if facilities were “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
This philosophy, used by MLK, involved breaking unjust laws peacefully to demand change.
Civil disobedience
This 1975 event marked the end of South Vietnam and the end of the war.
Fall of Saigon
This law limited the president’s ability to send troops into combat without congressional approval.
War Powers Resolution