Civil Rights Movement
Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
Name for JFK's domestic policy
What is the New Frontier?
Name for LBJ's domestic programs
What is the Great Society?
Idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its neighbors would follow
What is the domino theory?
Organization formed to advance the rights of Indian peoples
What is AIM?
Major protest strategy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Greensboro 4 (Hint: think sit-in)
What is civil disobedience?
Name for JFK's foreign policy
What is flexible response?
Main goal of LBJ's Great Society
What is the war on poverty?
Communist leader in North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Author of The Feminine Mystique – the book that sparked the women’s movement
Who is Betty Friedan?
Groups of civil rights activists who took bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Assassinated JFK
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
Name for sustained bombing campaign in Vietnam under LBJ
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
Site of a massacre of Vietnamese citizens mistaken for the Vietcong by U.S. troops |
What is My Lai?
"These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes—nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in the soil—all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides."
What is Silent Spring?
"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and other similarly situated . . . are . . . deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment."
What is Brown v. Board of Ed
Name for the failed invasion of Cuba to remove Castro from power
What is Bay of Pigs
Difference between what the government said about the Vietnam War and what was reported in the media
What is the credibility gap?
“Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent any further aggression.”
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Cesar Chavez, Leader of the Chicano Movement for Latino Rights, used this protest tactic to bring attention to his cause.
What is boycotting?
Location in the South where Eisenhower had to send federal troops to allow for the integration of 9 black students into the school
What is Little Rock/Central High?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, where did the U.S. agree to remove missiles from in exchange for the Soviet's removal of missiles from Cuba?
Turkey
Name for the 1960s Supreme Court that had many rulings expanding civil rights/the rights of the accused
What is the Warren Court?
Nixon's policy to remove troops from Vietnam and to turn the fighting over to the ARVN
What is Vietnamization?
Violent event that triggered the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1960s
What are the Stonewall Riots?