Vocabulary
This was a congressional resolution that gave President Johnson the power to send troops to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Martin Luther King Jr. was well known for encouraging this form of protest during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is non-violent or peaceful protest?
This led to the improvement of technology in the lives of the American public through things like GPS and infrared.
What is space exploration?
These were two chemical agents used against the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
What were Agent Orange and Napalm?
American's distrust in the government and the antiwar movement were all responses to this event.
What is the Vietnam War?
This man was the leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This event lasted 13 days in 1962 and was the closest moment to nuclear war between the US and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark court case that overruled this other significant court case related to segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This landmark event occurred in 1969.
What is the moon landing?
What is domino theory?
The 26th Amendment made this landmark change to voting.
What is changed the age from 21 to 18?
This was the name given to Kennedy's programs, which he would not be able to enact.
What is the New Frontier?
This group of students showed that the government would uphold the court's decisions and were the first integrated students in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Martin Luther King Jr. gave this famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
This program ensured that universities and employers have to hire more women and minority candidates.
What is Affirmative Action?
Americans who were NOT protesting the war were coined this term by President Nixon.
What is the silent majority?
Protests at this university ended with four students shot and weakened support for the Vietnam War.
What is Kent State University?
This woman worked with Cesar Chavez to secure civil rights for Mexican American farmworkers in California.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This man was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This act officially got rid of things like poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This man became the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Harry Truman issued this to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.
What is Executive Order 9981?
This event caused the American public to lose faith in the cause in Vietnam when they realized the Vietcong were a real enemy.
What is the Tet Offensive?
President Nixon's policy of removing American soldiers from Vietnam was called this.
What is Vietnamization?
This organization AND this individual figure believed that more was needed than just peaceful protest to ensure civil rights change occurred.
Who are the Black Panthers and Malcolm X?
This was the Supreme Court decision that changed the segregation laws at UT Law School.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
These 3 governors from the South believed that different races shouldn't be forced to mix in public places. (I need at least 2.)
Who are Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, and George Wallace?
Lyndon B. Johnson's plan, called this, was designed to develop social reform programs in the US.
What is Great Society?
This government act limited the ability of the President to get involved in war without Congress' consent.
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
This was the term given to the differences between what the government said and the media said about the war.
What is the Credibility Gap?
This is the phrase Kennedy used to describe why "we choose to go to the moon".
What is "not because it is easy, but because it is hard"?