Civil Rights
This was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. The main points included Employment/Unemployment benefits, Federal support for education, Healthcare, and Civil Rights.
What is the Fair Deal?
This was the name of the alliance between the ARVN and the US forces.
What is Diem?
This was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who the support of the Viet Minh and Viet Cong in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This president is often associated with Civil Rights. He was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Who is Kennedy?
This was the group of ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
What is ARVN?
This was an African-American non-violent civil rights organization for students lead by MLK.
What is the SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This was is an intergovernmental military alliance between three of the five official nuclear-weapon states.
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This man was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
Who is MLK?
This man was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He also sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders that integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This was Nixon's secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.
What is "Vietnamization"?
This was the Supreme Court case decided in 1955 that required public schools to desegregate with "all convenient speed," which allowed southern schools to make no progress towards desegregation.
What is Brown II?
This is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement (also known as Congress of Racial Equality).
What is CORE?
This was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy during the 2nd Red Scare and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Who is Alger Hiss?
This president was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam where French forces were destroyed by Vietnamese forces, This loss forced France to pull out of Vietnam.
What is Diem Bien Phu?
This was the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
This is was NAACP stands for.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This man was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement who's march on Washington resulted in the creation of the FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission).
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
This was the first president who resigned from office and permanently changed American sentiments towards the government.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched before the Vietnamese New Year. The result was a win for Northern forces who successfully breached the US Embassy in Saigon.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main points included accessible public education, a civil rights act, a voting act, VISTA, Medicare/Medicaid, and the war on poverty.
What is the Great Society?
This was was a fundraising organization of Richard Nixon's administration to get him re-elected. It used $500,000 in funds raised to re-elect President Nixon to pay legal expenses for the five Watergate burglars after their indictment in September 1972, in exchange for their silence and perjury.
What is CREEP, the Committee to Re-elect the President?
This man is known for alleging that numerous Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This president served as the 36th President of the United States who designed the "Great Society" and was left to deal with Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed this, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?