People
President from 1960 - 63; he was assasinated.
Who is John F. Kennedy
Place where JFK was obsessed with going; he felt that landing here would give the U.S. an advantage in the Cold War.
What is the moon?
Group that bussed protesters to perform sit ins and infiltrate communities where segregation was encourages.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This exists when there is a difference in what the government says that what the people believe.
What is a Credibility Gap?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Leader of the Non-Violent resistance to discrimination based on race.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Country that was harboring missiles for the Soviet Union and had a communist dictator in the 1960s.
What is Cuba?
The communist enemies in Vietnam.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Chemical used to burn the tree canopy in the Vietnamese jungle. It gave people cancer for years.
What is Agent Orange?
White man is the devil.
Who is Malcolm X?
His death, while happening in the 1950s, was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. His mother made sure everyone saw his mutilated body in an open casket.
Who is Emmit Till?
The march for voting rights in Alabama that crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge and was lead eventually by Dr. King went from ____ to _____?
What is Selma to Montgomery
Militant advocates for racial justice, this group took their cue from Malcolm X.
Who are the Black Panters?
This was Nixon's plan to return the the war back into the hand of the Vietnamese people and get the U.S. out of the war.
What is Vietnamization?
Who is JFK?
Leader of the communist, North Vietnamese forces.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The campus where protester were mowed down by the National Guard after burning the ROTC building in response to the invasion of Cambodia.
What is Kent State?
JFK created this group in order to provide support for struggling, third world nations, so that they would not become communists.
What is the Peace Corp?
It lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th amendment?
During his campaign for president, "I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam"
Who is Richard Nixon?
The super pro-segregation governor of Alabama during the 1960s.
Who is George Wallace?
Cuban port where the U.S. failed to assassinate Fidel Castro and instead looked foolish and paid them money.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Who are Hippies?
During Chinese New Year, the Vietnamese launched this attack that severely hit U.S. forces, especially the U.S. embassy.
What is the Tet Offensive?
"We are willing to remove from Cuba the Missiles... to the effect that the U.S. will remove its missiles from Turkey"
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?