Civil Rights Movement
Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders worked with this organization to coordinate the youth march in Montgomery and the march from Selma to Birmingham
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The French left Vietnam following this battle in 1954
What is Dien Bien Phu?
The CIA under Eisenhower developed this plan to depose Castro using Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala. It was a total failure.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
LBJ defeated conservative Barry Goldwater in the greatest majority in history (up to that point) in this election
What is the presidential election of 1964?
Hippies, Yippies, and Beats were all a part of this broader movement
What is the counterculture?
The legislative outcome of the march from Selma to Montgomery
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
City where the French surrendered Vietnam, diplomatically, and the countries of North and South Vietnam were designed w/ a promise of free-elections and unification within two years (didn't happen)
Geneva
Settled diplomatically. Soviets removed missiles in Cuba and the U.S. agreed to remove obsolete Juneau missiles in Turkey through secret negotiations between RFK and a Soviet KGB agent.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Johnson increased immigration quotas in this act which increased global immigration at the expense of Europe
What is the Immigration Reform Act of 1965?
He was assassinated in a hotel kitchen in Los Angeles by Palestinian national Sirhan Sirhan
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
The Supreme Court in the case of Regents of the University of California v Baake decided that race, ethnicity, and gender can all be deciding factors in admission as long as they aren't the ONLY factor. This is called:
What is affirmative action?
U.S. involvement in Vietnam was a part of this larger theory (the spread of Communism in Asia)
What is the Domino Theory?
The Soviet success of Sputnik led to the development of this U.S. science program
What is NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration)?
Johnson's Great Society programs including government programs that addressed many poverty issues in the U.S. including the CPB (Corporation of Public Broadcasting) which developed this show that was to be preschool for inner city kids who would otherwise not be able to afford it
What is Sesame Street?
Mayor Daly of this American city refused to grant permits for protest during the Democratic National Convention (1968)
What is Chicago?
In 1963 college students rode through the south registering African-Americans to vote in what was called:
What is Freedom Summer?
This resolution essentially gave President Johnson war powers in Vietnam
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
JFK put his uncle Seargent Shriver in charge of this organization which was developed to combat communism by providing support to developing countries
What is the Peace Corps?
Sometimes to get what Johnson wanted from the political establishment he would give them this
What is the "Johnson Treatment"?
General in charge of American troops stationed in Vietnam
Who is General Westmoreland?
This group was formed in Oakland, CA to confront maltreatment of the black community by a predominately white police department (as well as addressing other racial and economic issues in the city)
What is the Black Panther Party?
North Vietnamese attacks on South Vietnamese cities in 1968 that turned the "court of American opinion" against the conflict
What is the Tet Offensive?
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald on this date
What is November 22, 1963?
Following the publishing of Green Spring Johnson pushed for legislation like the Clean Air Act and created greater awareness of pollution in America. Those actions spurred this movement
What is the Environmental Movement?
The U.S. ended its involvement in Vietnam in 1973 following accords in this European city?
What is Paris?