Key Vocab
In civil rights cases, this term describes the feeling of being "lower in status" or "less than" others. (Hint: starts with an "I")
inferiority
This 1964 law officially ended segregation in all public places like restaurants and hotels.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This major world power was the U.S.'s main rival in the UN Security Council during the Cold War.
Soviet Union (USSR)
Incident that provided a pretext for American military involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
He was the most famous leader of the movement, known for his philosophy of non-violence and his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This term describes the practice of separating people by race, which the Supreme Court eventually ruled caused psychological harm to children.
segregation
The social protest of the public transit system in order to fight racial segregation.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Confrontation between the US and USSR over ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the name of the system used by the government to randomly select young men for mandatory military service during Vietnam.
Draft (or Selective Service System)
Person who refused to give up a seat on the bus, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Stopping the spread of Communism, but not eliminating it from already communist countries.
Containment
This 1965 Act banned the use of race-based "prerequisites" for voting.
Voting Rights Act
This military alliance was formed by the U.S. and its allies to defend against a Soviet attack.
NATO.
The turning point of the war against the United States
What is the Tet Offensive?
This Senator from Wisconsin claimed to have a list of 57 Communists working in the State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
To prevent nuclear missiles from reaching Cuba in 1962, the U.S. established this naval "line."
Blockade (or quarantine)
Supreme court case that had allowed segregation leading up to the Civil Rights Movement with it's phrase "separate but equal".
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This theory says "If one country converts to communism, neighboring countries will follow and convert to communism as well."
Domino Theory
These were the Communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam who fought against the U.S. military.
Viet Cong.
This 35th President stood against the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis but was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
John F. Kennedy
This term refers to the practice of making public accusations of communist or "un-American" activities without providing actual evidence during the second red scare.
McCarthyism
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools and finally overturned the Plessy decision.
Brown v. Board of Education
This 1947 plan aimed to revive the European economy to ensure that "free institutions" could exist.
Marshall Plan
Nixon's policy for ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam by handing over the fighting back to the South Vietnamese Army
What is Vietnamization?
This President took over after JFK and signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson