Civil Rights Movement
This Supreme Court case was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
This North Vietnamese offensive took place during the Vietnamese New Year in 1968.
The decision that affirmed the rights of all citizens to be counted as equal under the law, regardless of race.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was the temporary partition of Vietnam along the 17th parallel as outlined in a 1954 agreement
Geneva Accords
Emmett Till, accused of whistling at a white woman, was beaten and killed. His killers were
acquitted by an all-white jury
The group of students who first tested the Brown v. Board decision.
Little Rock Nine
Nixon's Vietnamization did what two things?
1. Trained South Vietnamese to fight for themselves.
2. Brought American soldiers home.
This group of Americans were described as Nixon’s “silent majority.”
Working Americans who didn’t protest, obeyed the law, and voted their consciences
This unpopular Vietnamese leader outlawed Buddhism, leading to many protests.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Richard Nixon’s early success in politics was largely based on this stance
anticommunism
This law outlawed racial discrimination in all places of public accommodation in 1964.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
When did the Vietnam War end (what event)?
The North Vietnamese army successfully captured South Vietnam
Two major events of the 1968 Presidential Election
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Election of Richard Nixon
ML King felt alone among other spiritual leaders and wrote this in prison
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The nomination of Barry Goldwater for President in 1964 indicated that
There was strong support for escalation of the war in Vietnam
The civil rights leader who fought for desegregation, AND his counterpart supported a separate identity for African-Americans.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcom X
Which president escalated military aid (sent advisors) to the region to keep communism out? Did his successor increase or decrease invovlement?
Kennedy
Johnson increased invovlement
The Nixon-Kennedy Debates of 1960 were significant because (3 reasons):
1. First nationally televised presidential debates (70 million viewers)
2. Kennedy allowed makeup – looked confident, while Nixon looked stiff, tired
3. Kennedy won by one of the narrowest margins in history.
Which pair of events best illustrates the incongruence of the domestic trends of the 1950s?
The emergence of rock n’ roll and the emergence of televangelists
William J. Levitt helped the expansion of the American suburbs by
introducing mass-produced housing developments
The year-long protest in Alabama which marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, the person who initiated it, and HOW she did it.
Rosa Parks - refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus
Purpose: help with inflation & the post-war economy
What it did: temporarily froze wages and prices; created a system of regulation
Choose one decision of the Supreme Court of the 1960s. Describe the case and its outcome. Explain its enduring influence. Give a biblical justification or refutation of the principles in the case.
1. Name the decision –
2. Outcome –
3. Influence –
4. Biblical justification –
Three provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act include:
1. Limited the power of unions
2. Outlawed “closed shop” unions (forced companies to hire only union workers)
3. If a strike threatened the nation’s health or safety, an injunction (order to stop the strike) could be issued
The chief goal of African Americans in the civil rights movement
Name two of their leaders - Which was more effective? Why?
obtain the practical right for blacks to vote
MLK; Malcom X; Rosa Parks; Medgar Evers