Civil Rights
In 1954, the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education ended segregation in these.
What are schools?
Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huerta fought for Latino Rights, part of the _____ Power Movement.
What is Brown?
The US fought a war in Vietnam to stop the spread of _______.
What is Communism?
This president created the idea of the Great Society.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
Ernest Green and the Little Rock Nine helped to integrate one of these in 1957.
What is a school (high school)?
Rachel ______'s book Silent Spring showed why using chemicals can negatively effect the environment.
Who is Carson?
Hippies, also known as _______, protested the war and demanded peace.
What is the counterculture?
He wanted to put an American on the moon by 1970.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
His Letter from a Birmingham Jail explained why the fight for civil rights meant so much.
Who is MLK?
The Feminine Mystique, a book by Betty Friedan, demanded better treatment for this group in America.
Who are women?
About one third of those who fought in Vietnam were drafted. The draft is also known as the _____ service.
What is selective?
He demanded lower taxes and created the Peace Corps to help poor countries around the world.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The Greensboro Four, a group of college students, used nonviolence to integrate these in 1960.
What are lunchcounters?
Many of the rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s were inspired by the actions and writings of this famous American.
Who is MLK?
In 1968, the ___ Offensive proved that America was not going to be able to win the war.
What is Tet?
He received unlimited power to fight a war in Vietnam through the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
The shift to black power in the mid 1960s happened when the civil rights movement ignored the needs of people living in these.
What are cities?
This is the name of the Communists in North Vietnam who followed Ho Chi Minh.
Who are the Vietminh?
The Vietnam War started when Communists shot at an American _______.
What is a ship?
Johnson was born in this state and Kennedy died in this state.
What is Texas?