Cold War
The dramatic rise in the birthrate after World War II:
Baby Boom
Person who advocates immediate firm action, including the use of force, to resolve international crises
Hawk
In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote
Freedom March
In 1969, President __________ announced a new policy known as Vietnamization. This policy called for the stepped-up training programs for South Vietnamese forces and the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam
President Nixon
Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations
Dove
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation
The United Nations
leader of the Communist Party in Indochina after WWII; led Vietnamese against the French, then North Vietnamese against the United States in the Vietnam War.
Ho Chi Minh
The Assisination of Martin Luther King Jr. took place on April 4,______
1968
was the first president of South Vietnam (1955-1963). Anti-communist dictator who repressed all opposition; backed by the U.S. until assassinated in a coup de tat.
Ngo Dinh Diem
1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Little Rock “9”
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
Communism
President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
Vietnamization
A 50-mile march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery was going to take place to protest the denial of Voting Rights. People were beat up and tear gassed.
The 1965 Civil Rights Protest in Selma
Attorney General who fought for Civil Rights in the 1960’s
Robert Kennedy
A state of tension between two superpowers with no actual fighting; power struggle between the soviet union and the United States after World War II:
Cold War
A military alliance of 12 nations for the common defense against the Soviets:
NATO
A massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968
Tet Offensive
King was arrested. He wrote his famous Letter. Demonstrators faced police beatings, attack dogs, and imprisonment. It was all televised so the nation could see. It helped bring about the Civil Rights Bill of 1964
Th 1963 Civil Rights Protest in Birmingham
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States; an advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS, 1954
Name for the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II because they were the two strongest countries in the world
Super Powers
Agent Orange sprayed by the Americans in Vietnam had what type of effects on anyone who came in contact with it?
liver problems, skin disease, disfigurations
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation; leaders Jim Farmer and Jim Peck.
Freedom riders
Form of government that the Soviet Union practiced. It’s an economic system based on the theories of __________and________ in which the means of production are owned by the government and the government decides what will be produced and where people will work. There are no Free Elections held.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles
A village in South Vietnam where more than 200 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were massacred by U.S. troops in May 1968
My Lai