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Civil Rights
Life in the 50s
1960s
The Cold War
Civil Rights and Social Movements
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Preacher who founded the SCLC and made the civil rights movement a church based movement

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

100

 Innovation that became more affordable that brought pictures and information to American households

television

100

Young president elected in 1960 who represented idealism and known as the New Frontier

John F. Kennedy

100

He led the Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro

100
Organization that sought the equality of women

NOW - the National Organization of Women

200

Her refusal to give up her seat led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks

200
Large suburban housing developments that provided affordable homes for families; however, were racially segregated

Levittown

200

Music festival in upstate New York in 1969, that reflected the counterculture movement

Woodstock

200

U.S. policy of containment to keep Communism from spreading

the Truman Doctrine

200

He fought for the rights of farmworkers

Cesar Chavez

300

Supreme Court decision that overtuned Plessy vs. Ferguson and made racial segregation illegal

Brown vs. the Board of Education

300

Music that became the symbol of rebellion in the 1950s

Rock and roll

300

President known for his War on Poverty and for signing major Civil Rights legislation

Lyndon B. Johnson

300

Failed attempt to overthrown Fidel Castro

the Bay of Pigs

300

Movement of Native American youth with demonstrations and fought against discrimination and poverty

AIM - American Indian Movement

400
He encouraged African Americans to pursue freedom by any means necessary

Malcolm X

400

Form of housing discrimination by the HOLC that restricted loans and devalued areas where people of color lived

Redlining

400
Another name given to Johnson's support for federal legislation passed that provided Medicare for seniors, federal financial aid for students and food assistance for families, civil rights and voting rights

the Second New Deal

400
Alliance formed by the U.S. and western European nations to counter the threat of communism 

NATO

400

Political party that fought for Mexican American civil rights

La Raza Unida

500

City where firehoses and dogs were used against peaceful civil rights marchers

Birmingham, Alabama

500

Space program started as a result of the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite

NASA

500

Movement that focused on youth, against societal norms, experimentation with drugs and the study of non-Western religions

the counterculture movements

500

Incident that led to the escalation of the Vietnam War

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

500

She wrote The Feminine Mystique that addressed the needs of women

Betty Friedan