Module 15A
He created the SCLC to fight for Civil Rights.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This person started the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The French finally surrendered to the Viet Minh at this battle.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
This idea suggests that if one country becomes communist then other nearby countries will become communist.
What is the domino theory?
This 1969 festival brought people together to symbolize counterculture and call for peace & unity.
What was Woodstock?
This Supreme Court decision ended "separate but equal."
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
What did Eisenhower do to integrate schools in Little Rock?
He sent the army.
This temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel. A election to reunify the country was supposed to take place in 1956.
What was the Geneva accords?
This was a Communist opposition group in the South.
Who are the Vietcong?
Started by Betty Friedan and 27 other women, this became the largest women's rights organization in the U.S.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This is segregation by law.
What is de jure segregation?
This event convinced President JFK that there was a need for a Civil Rights Act.
What were the Birmingham riots?
This political activist organization believed corporations and large government institutions had taken over America, and called for a restoration of “participatory democracy” and greater individual freedom.
Who were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
What happened at Kent State University during an antiwar protest?
The National Guard fired upon students. 4 were killed.
This would guarantee that both men and women would enjoy the same rights and protections under the law.
What was the Equal Rights Amendment?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
This eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters. It also stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials.
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What did the Gulf of Tonkin resolution do?
It grants president Johnson broad military powers in Vietnam.
He won the presidential election of 1968.
Who is Nixon?
What group of people were primarily involved in the counterculture?
middle class young people
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 do?
Ended discrimination in housing
He coined the idea of "Black Power."
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This was Nixon's strategy for ending the war.
What was Vietnamization?
Why was the Tet offensive significant?
the Tet offensive changed millions of minds about the war
What issue does Betty Friedan address in The Feminine Mystique?
The dissatisfaction of housewives.