Cold War
Name of a series of unmanned satellites launched by the Soviets
Sputnik
leader of the Communist Party in Indochina after WWII; led Vietnamese against the French, then North Vietnamese against the United States in the Vietnam War.
Ho Chi Minh
1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Little Rock 9
Mississippi 14-year-old ___________an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier
Emmett Tills
A time from 1946 to 1964 where about 76 million children were born.
The baby Boom
They guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in South Vietnam
Vietcong.
Protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Lunch counter sit ins
Militant founder/leader of the Black Panthers
Bobby seale
What is a deal that created jobs, public housing, and needed job discrimination.
Trumans Fair Deal
President Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Vietnamization
A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically
Voting rights act
An act that outlawed walkouts by workers in support of strikers in other industries
The Taft-Harley Act
North Vietnamese boats supposedly attacked a U.S destroyer
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed
Brown vs. board of education
Gave veterans preference for federal and state jobs
The G.I. Bill of Rights
Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War and other conflicts.
Napalm
What section of the bus was Rosa Parks sitting when she was arrested
Colored Section
Attorney General who fought for Civil Rights in the 1960's.
Robert Kennedy