Laws
Law ending segregation in "public accomadations" nationwide.
Civil Rights Act 1964
What is the international organization that was formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation?
World War 2
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
MLK
What was the social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities? People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts.
Civil Rights Movement
What is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Also known as a free market system.
Capitalism
This City was cut off from the West by the Soviets, but supplied from the air by the US Air Force.
What is (West) Berlin.
Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama
Bus Boycott
Law enforcing constitutional right to vote.
Voting Rights Act
Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the . In 1965, Congress passed many of this program's measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
Great Society
President from 1961-1963. Most known for Cuban Missile Crisis and being assassinated.
John Kennedy (JFK)
This Rachel Carson book is credited with starting the Enviromental Movement.
Silent Spring
What do we call the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II, fought through proxy wars like Korea and Vietnam?
The Cold War
What political theory in which it is believed theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control, became US foriegn policy in the 1950s-1970s?
Domino Theory
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, AL, and so triggered the national civil rights movement
Rosa Parks
The Federal Law setting a national goal of making all natural surface water fit for fishing and swimming by 1983, banned polluted discharge into surface water and required the metals be removed from waste was called the?
Clean Water Act
What we call the events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
Watergate
What US President approved the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, committed the United States to defending South Korea, and announced a doctrine that the United States would give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection?
Harry Truman
This Betty Freidan book is credited with kicking off the Women's Movement
Feminie Mystique
The name for the strategy and tactics of the Civil Rights Movement.
Non-violence
What military alliance was created due to concern over an attack by the Soviet Union on Western Europe, and in which members (US, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Norway) agreed to defend any member if attacked?
NATO
A series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961
Freedom Rides
Following an attack on US Navy ships by North Vietnamese torpedo boats, Congress passed this legislation to give the President the power to respond as he saw fit to an attack on US forces.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
He was the first President to resign his offoce, in spite of having won reelection in a landslide. d
Richard Nixon
What President signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965? He had a war on poverty as his agenda, but his presidency was bogged down by Vietnam, where he greatly increased US troop levels.
Lyndon Johnson
This movement started with the Stonewall Riot in NYC.
Gay Rights Movement
The North Vietnamese Ofensive that convinced American that we were not wining Vietnam.
The Tet Offensive
Explain 2 similarities between the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
North v. South
Capitalists v. Commies
Proxy War, US v. China/USSR
Civil rights organization founded by MLK Jr., to fight segregation; stressed passive resistance, nonviolence, and peaceful confrontation; leadership for this part of the movement came from churches.
Southern Christian Leadership Council
In 1954 the Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, and declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. What was the name of this case?
Brown v. Board of Education
What economic/political system derived from Karl Marx, advocates class war leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person theorectically works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Communism
This US Senator had just secured the deomcratic nomination when he was assassinated in 1968.
Robert Kennedy
The event where 200,000 demonstrators converged on the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. King's speech and to celebrate Kennedy's support for the civil rights movement. (putting pressure on the federal government to pass civil rights legislation)
March on Washington (1963)
What Nixon said he would achieve in Vietnam.
Peace with honor.
Explain 2 differinces between the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Set battles v. Guerilla War
US would not invade N. Vietnam, did invade N. Korea
Stalemate v. US/S. Vietnam Lost
leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee, preached black power and wanted to destroy everything the western civilization has created. Quit SNCC and joined Black Panthers.
Stokeley Carmicheal