Review - Multiple Choice Flashcards
In response to the arrest of Rosa parks, African Americans :
Organized a bus boycott
In Little Rock Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by:
Deploying the national guard
The organization founded by student civil rights activists was:
SNCC
One advantage president johnson had-that Kennedy did not-in getting the civil rights act of 1964 passed was his :
Intimate knowledge of how congress worked
The purpose of the Selma March was to campaign for
Voting rights for African Americans
The ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson in 1896 established:
The separate but equal doctrine
Dr Martin Luther king jr believed that the way to end segregation was through
Nonviolent passive resistance
The freedom riders were organized to draw attention to the south’s refusal to:
Integrate bus terminals
The civil rights act of 1964 did little to:
Guarantee the right to vote
The long term telegram resulted in
The containment policy
After his pilgrimage to Makkah, Malcom X concluded that
An integrated society was possible
Martin Luther king teaches African Americans about the use of
Forgiveness
In which year was segregation of public facilities prohibited
1964
Dr. King selected Selma Alabama for a protest march because
Sir African Americans were not registered to vote
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to
Serve of the US Supreme Court
The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for
About a year
The Vietminh formed initially in Vietnam to
Win independence from France
With the gulf of Tonkin resolution, congress, in effect
Handed it’s war powers to the president
The purpose of agent orange was to
Destroy the Vietcong ability to hide in jungles
The results of the battle at Dien Bien Phu convinced:
The French to withdraw from indochina
In south Vietnam, a monk set himself on fire to protest
Discrimination against Buddhists
Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam war on television helped
Create a credibility gap
The pentagon papers revealed that
The government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam
What was the belief that suggested if Vietnam fell to communism so would the rest of Southeast Asia
The domino theory
Many college faculty and students against the Vietnam war abandoned their classes and gathered informally to discuss the issues in a new form of protest called
A teach-in
During the Vietnam war, American planes dropped __________, a jellied gasoline explosive that exploded in contact
Napalm
The Vietcong were
Communists from the south
1963 is so significant in American history because of the following events :
The assassination of John F. Kennedy and the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem
1968 is so significant in American history because if the following events
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and the assassination of Martin Luther king jr.
The Geneva accords did which of the following things
Granted Ho Chi Minh control of north Vietnam
