Key Events
The purpose of the March on Washington by Martin Luther King Jr was to...
Get Congressional approval and support for the Civil Rights bill/act
This court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Name the court case that says you must be aware of your rights before an official statement can be taken.
Miranda v. Arizona
The other name for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that began under Johnson... that concluded that long-term racial discrimination stood as the single most important cause of Violence.
Kerner Commission
Explain how differences in generational beliefs established a counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s?
Younger generations wanted change and adaptation while the older generations wanted to stick to traditional gender roles, family and religious values.
A contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr, this Muslim minister and civil rights activist pushed for a more aggressive response against white oppressors.
Malcolm X
This supreme court case ended up saying that a defendant is guaranteed the right to counsel or assistance of counsel by the 6th amendment in all criminal proceedings.
Gideon v. Wainwright
"… For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington. It must be won in the field, in every private home, in every public office, from the courthouse to the White House.…"
Poverty was a key focus of Lyndon B. Johnson's main domestic policy program called...?
Great Society
The name of this major campaign on behalf of the SNCC that was to go to Mississippi and register African Americans to vote. Early on, the disappearance of three civil rights workers occurred, and found murdered. Despite this, the campaign still happened... it was called what?
Freedom Summer
"I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" is a quote by which Alabama Governor?
George Wallace
This supreme court case where which established a clearer definition of the exclusionary rule and against unlawful search and seizure.
What is the name of the case and the amendment involved?
4th amendment
Mapp v. Ohio
“Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere. . . .”
What was JFK's military response to Cuba after making this statement? What did he do to Cuba?
Ordered a Naval blockade of Cuba
Which congressional bill gave President Johnson unprecedented power and the ability to use whatever means necessary to protect American interest & military bases in Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This man won a federal court case that ordered the all-white University of Mississippi to accepted him even though he was black.
James Meredith
Students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam war... went to the Supreme Court.
What's the name of the case, the outcome, and what amendment did it deal with?
Tinker v. Des Moines, Tinker won, 1st amendment
Explain the correlation between the Vietnam War & domino theory.
Domino theory suggested that if one country fell to a communist country then the surrounding countries would be more likely to become communist.
...Vietnam was partially Communist because China was communist and they were neighbors...
Therefore, if Vietnam fell to Communists, then so would Laos, Cambodia, India, the Philippines, etc.