- Main Focus: Working in the courts to overturn unjust laws/court rulings
- helped Africa Americans end segregation
Name this organization
What is NAACP?
100
name of group during Vietnam War that believed America should stay and fight
What is Hawks?
100
group during the Vietnam War that believed America should leave the war
What is Doves?
200
Kennedy’s domestic policy
What is the New Frontier?
200
this woman refused to give up her seat on a bus
What is Rosa Parks?
200
Nine Africa American children should be allowed to enter central high
-governor prevented them from entering
-Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the children
Where did this happen?
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
200
people of the counterculture
What is hippies?
200
surprise attack in January 1968, by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese of all American airbases in South Vietnam and most of the nation’s major cities
-militarily victory of U.S./ Psychological victory for Vietcong
What is the Tet Offensive?
300
an organization that sent young Americans to perform humanitarian services in less developed nations (JFK)
What is the Peace Corps?
300
-Martin Luther king jr. “I have a dream” speech
- Used to lobby support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- supported by JFK
What is the March On Washington?
300
court case that overturned (separate but equal ok)
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
300
helped girls have the right to play school sports
What is Title IX (9)?
300
movement to protect the environment, Earth Day
- Clean air/Water Acts, Endangered Species Act
- EPA- Environmental Protection Agency
What is Environmentalism?
400
a program of foreign aid presented by President Kennedy to help solve the economic and social problems of Latin America
What is the Alliance for Progress?
400
Kennedy's foreign policy: the United States could call on Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMS) or Special Forces, including the newly created Green Berets, to battle communist aggression
What is the Flexible Response?
400
The court case that declared separate, but equal not ok
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
-helped African Americans achieve equality
- Used Sit-ins (de-segregating restaurants)
What is CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)?
400
a law that outlawed paying men more than women for the same job
What is the Equal Pay Act?
500
JFK established this commission to advise the President of the United States on issues concerning the status of women.
What is Presidential Commission on the Status of Women?
500
On July 29, 1958, Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing _____
What is NASA?
500
-African American voting rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964: law that made segregation illegal in most public places
-end racial segregation
- NAACP worked in the courts to overturn unjust laws
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
500
-African Americans boycotted the Montgomery bus system
-she would not give up her seat to a white man
- MLK helped lead the movement
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
500
the belief that men and women should be equal politically, economically, and socially