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Who's Who?
Protest Movements
The Vietnam War
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Trivia
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The president who came in office after John F Kennedy was assassinated
Lyndon B Johnson
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Movement of mainly young people that took shape following a protest at the Miss America Beauty Pageant. This collection of protests intended to challenge gender inequality in America.
What is Women's Liberation
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Why did Johnson's popularity decline during the latter half of the 60's?
His support of the Vietnam War
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LBJ is mostly remembered for this set of programs
The Great Society
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Counter culture group know for long hair, rock'n roll and peace and love
What are Hippies
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Founded by 1966 - A Black nationalist party who believed that black people should govern and defend themselves against racism in America.
What is The Black Panther Party
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Advocated opposition to US involvement in South East Asia. By 1970 a national mobilizing committee organized a demonstration of half a million protesters in Washington, DC.
What is Anti- Vietnam Protest
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Why did the US join the Vietnam War
The US entered the Vietnam War in an attempt to prevent the spread of Communism.
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Supreme Court held that criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police (Warren)
What is Miranda v. Arizona
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The belief that women have the same rights and intellectual capacity to be equal to men
What is feminism
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His court sought equality in criminal justice and the defense of human rights.
Who is Chief Justice Earl Warren
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A movement to protest discrimination against those who did not fit America heterosexual norms that emerged after the Stonewall Riots in New York City.
What is the Movement for Gay Rights
300
1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
What is The My Lai Massacre
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Decision holding that school segregation was inherently unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection - marked the end of legal segregation in the United States
What is Brown v. Board of Education
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Author of the book "Feminine Mystique"
Who is Betty Friedan
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He called for "Law and order" and promised America's silent majority an end to the social upheaval and protest culture in America.
Who is Richard Nixon
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Militant movement that emerged from the civil rights campaigns to advocate independent institutions for African Americans and pride in black culture and African heritage.
What is The Black Power Movement
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A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to instigate rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive
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The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
What is the Domino Theory
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Tactic used by black activists where they use whites only amenities
What are sit-ins
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communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it un-winnable
Who is Ho Chi Minh
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Intended to overthrow or shed light on the farm labor system in the US nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings or human beings at all.
What is the Migrant Workers Movement
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The effort to build up South Vietnamese troops while withdrawing American troops, it was an attempt to turn the war over to the Vietnamese. Supported by Nixon.
What is Vietnamization
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law-abiding middle-class Americans who supported both the Vietnam War and America's institutions of racism and discrimination. Believers in "traditional" American Values who helped Nixon come to power.
What is the Silent Majority
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What member of the Black Panther Party said this and what is he referring - "IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us."
Who is Huey P Newton and he is referring to the ways in which using intelligence/literacy tests against Black people work to feed the belief that Black people are inferior to white people and do not deserve the same resources and rights.