Civil Rights Part 1
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Bus
Rosa Parks
In which city was MLK assassinated?
Memphis, TN
Communist leader in Vietnam who led Vietnamese fighters against Japan and France
Ho Chi Minh
North and South Vietnam were divided along the ____ parallel
17th
Explain why Vietnam was called a "living room war"
Combat footage that appeared nightly on the news in millions of homes
This court case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education
Which piece of legislation banned literacy tests to make voting more accessible?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Ho Chi Minh wrote a Declaration of Independence for Vietnam and took a lot of inspiration from...
The U.S. Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
Anti-communist leader of South Vietnam at the start of the war, refused to participate in the planned 1956 nationwide election
Ngo Dinh Diem
A network of paths through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia used for N. Vietnam to get weapons to S. Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Which group tried to integrate public schools in Arkansas?
Little Rock 9
What is De Jure segregation?
Segregation that exists legally such as Jim Crow Laws
The Vietnam war was extremely important as our previous proxy war in ____ ended in a stalemate
Korea
Communist group that attacked South Vietnam
The Vietcong
On the Vietnamese equivalent of New Years Eve, the Vietcong launched an overwhelming attack on over 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam. This was known as the ___ ___.
Tet Offensive
This young man was found dead after he was kidnapped, taken, and beaten for speaking to a white woman who was working the counter of a corner store
Emmett Till
This group were civil rights activists who traveled by bus through the American South in 1961 to challenge local segregation laws
Freedom Riders
Why was Ho Chi Minh popular?
War hero, fighting the Japanese and French, redistributed land to peasants
U.S. strategy was to wear down the enemy by continuous harassment. This is called a war of _____
attrition
Who won the 1968 election?
Nixon
What is the name of the group of college students whose sit-in inspired other groups to try to integrate lunch counters nationwide?
Greensboro 4
This student integrated Ole Miss
James Meredith
In 1964, a North Vietnamese patrol boat fired a torpedo at an American destroyer within what body of water?
The Tonkin Gulf
Explain why the Vietnam war was a "working class war"
Because university students during the 1960s tended to be white and financially well-off, many of the men who fought in Vietnam were lower-class whites or minorities
Explain what Vietnamization is.
Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger created a plan to end America’s involvement in Vietnam