History Flashcards
Kent state shootings
On 4th may guards men shot dead four unarmed students during a protest on the kent state university campus against the vientnam war.
Richard nixon
President from 1969 - 1974
Tried to stop communist take over
Paris peace accords
A ceasefire to be agreed between north and south vietnam
Us prisoners of war to be returned
Us involvement in vietnam increased
Gulf of tonkin resolution
Diem was gone
Attack agains madocks
Domino theory
China Korea vietnam Laos Cambodia Thailand Indonesia burma india
What did nixon do
Make sure that south vietnam is not communist
But it was more popular with its citezens
Cold war
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II
Malcon x
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence.
The black panther movement
The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966
Black cival rights
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
President johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Cival war
The Civil War was America’s bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. The war resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 people, with millions more injured and the South left in ruins.
