Vocabulary
This was a massive National Security Threat to the nation in the 1960s. Delt with a small country off the coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
This area was long desegregated since WW2 and gave poeple hope that Civil Rights were possible
What is the Military
When did the Vietnam War Start for the US?
What is 1961
This powerhouse concert took place in 1969 and definded an era of cultural changes
What is Woodstock
What is the Bay of Pigs
Daily Double
This was the court case that desegregated the schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
What are the Black Panthers
In the beinging of the war the US was acting in what facet?
What is Military advisors
This became a popular slogan during the 1960s used to refer to their opinion on the wars the US had entered during the decade.
What is make love not war
This is the Court battle that established that women had a right to abortion
This was the movement to leave or fight against the current national culture
What is Counterculture
This was the most impactful speech for Civil Rights delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial
What is the I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
This program was designed to increase educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities
What is Affirmative Action
This is a common item that was becoming more and more accepted and used by the majority of Counterculture members.
What is Drug use
What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Soviets pulled their missiles out of Cuba, and the US promised to remove their missiles from Turkey
This is a form of protesting where you break the law in a peaceful form of political protes
What is Civil Disobedience.
Daily Double
This Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was LBJ's biggest controbution to the Vietnam War
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This is what the democratic party started to move towards from a major influence of the New Left.
What is an Absence of Idivual Freedom
Who is credited with assassinating JFK
Lee Harvey Oswalt
the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Virtnamization
This bill was created to eliminate all the discriminatory voting practices in states
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the most controversal item that college students protested in Vietnam?
What is the Draft?
This was a college group estbalished to protesting item like the Vietnam War and other cultral issues
What is the Students for a Democratic Society
The great society was labeled this because of what reason?
What are The most liberal Poltcal reforms since the New Deal?