Age of Affluence
This set of programs, launched by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice in America.
Question: What is the Great Society?
This civil rights leader, associated with the Nation of Islam, promoted Black nationalism and argued for self-defense rather than nonviolence.
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that “separate but equal” public schools were unconstitutional, helping to end legal school segregation in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1964 incident involving reported attacks on U.S. naval ships in Southeast Asia led Congress to pass a resolution greatly expanding presidential war powers in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1970 event occurred when Ohio National Guard troops fired on student protesters, killing four and intensifying opposition to the Vietnam War.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
This post–World War II economic trend saw Americans increasingly buying mass-produced goods, fueled by advertising, credit, and rising incomes during the Age of Affluence.
What is consumerism?
This strategy of nonviolent resistance involves intentionally breaking unjust laws, such as participating in sit-ins at segregated lunch counters during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is civil disobedience?
This landmark 1965 law, passed after events like the Selma marches, outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests and protected Black Americans’ right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This 1968 coordinated surprise attack by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces targeted major cities and U.S. positions during the Vietnam War, shifting American public opinion against the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This 1968 Vietnam War incident involved U.S. soldiers killing hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a major symbol of the war’s brutality.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This post–World War II trend saw millions of Americans move from cities to newly built communities like Levittown, fueled by affordable housing, cars, and highway expansion.
What is the rise of the suburbs?
This 1963 document, written by Martin Luther King Jr. while jailed in Alabama, defended nonviolent protest and argued that individuals have a moral duty to oppose unjust laws.
What is the Letter from Birmingham Jail?
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the American South, restricting Black Americans’ rights in schools, transportation, housing, and public life until the Civil Rights Movement.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This leader of North Vietnam directed the communist effort against South Vietnam and became a symbol of Vietnamese resistance and independence.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This 1973 law was passed by Congress to limit the president’s ability to send U.S. forces into combat without congressional approval, in response to Vietnam-era concerns over executive war powers.
What is the War Powers Act?
This Great Society program, created under Lyndon B. Johnson, provides health insurance specifically for Americans age 65 and older.
What is Medicaid?
This civil rights organization, often led by student activists, organized sit-ins, Freedom Summer, and voter registration drives using nonviolent direct action.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This group of nine Black students integrated Central High School in 1957 after being escorted by federal troops sent by President Eisenhower.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This Vietnam War policy, introduced by President Richard Nixon, involved gradually withdrawing U.S. troops while increasing South Vietnamese responsibility for fighting the war.
What is Vietnamization?
This 1960s youth movement rejected mainstream American values, opposed the Vietnam War, and was expressed through music, art, and alternative lifestyles.
What is the Counterculture?
This author challenged traditional gender and family roles in her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, helping spark second-wave feminism.
Who is Betty Friedan?
This political and social movement of the 1960s emphasized racial pride, self-determination, and sometimes militant resistance, and was associated with groups like the Black Panther Party.
What is Black Power?
This discriminatory housing practice denied loans and insurance to residents of certain neighborhoods—often based on race—helping create segregated communities like Levittown.
What is redlining?
This 1971 leaked government study revealed that U.S. leaders had misled the public about the Vietnam War and expanded the conflict beyond what was publicly admitted.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This constitutional amendment, passed during the Vietnam War era, lowered the voting age in the United States from 21 to 18, partly due to the argument that if you could be drafted, you should be able to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?