unit 12

Question 0

1954 brown v board (4)

Answer 0

• landmark Supreme Court case
• overturned plessy v ferguson
• ruled school segregation
• must be ended

Question 1

naacp (5)

Answer 1

• national association
• for the advancement
• of colored people
• organizations that works for equal rights
• for poc

Question 2

little rock, Arkansas (5)

Answer 2

• at central high in little rock
• the governor and kkk
• tried to stop the admittance of black students
• into an all white school
• Eisenhower intervened and used federal troops to guarantee their admission

Question 3

rosa parks (5)

Answer 3

• civil rights activist
• who refused to move seats to the back of the bus
• her decision sparked the Montgomery bus boycott
• a year later Supreme Court
• ordered the end of segregation in Montgomery bus system

Question 4

dr mlk jr (4)

Answer 4

• civil rights activist
• used non violent protests
• to end racial discrimination
• against poc

Question 5

southern christian leadership conference (3)

Answer 5

• religious
• and civil rights group
• that was lead by mlk

Question 6

civil rights act of 1957 (3)

Answer 6

• set up a civil rights commission
• and a civil rights division in the department of justice
• to ensure black votes were not denied

Question 7

civil rights act of 1960 (3)

Answer 7

• required voting registrars
• to retain their records for investigation
• by fed officials if necessary

Question 8

Greensboro sit ins (4)

Answer 8

• students in Greensboro
• staged sit-ins at a local woolworths
• where the lunch counter was for whites only
• sparked sit-ins all over the south

Question 9

sncc (4)

Answer 9

• student non violent coordinating committee
• students who used mon violence
• as a means to fight racism
• and segregation

Question 10

core (2)

Answer 10

• congress of racial equality

* fought for racism and segregation

Question 11

freedom riders (5)

Answer 11

• groups of blacks and whites
• who rode buses
• all over the south
• in an attempt to end segregation
• in public transit

Question 12

civil rights law of 1964 (6)

Answer 12

• forced desegregation of schools
• and other public facilities
• outlawed job discrimination
• based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
• reduced the power of local voting boards
• to discriminate based on literacy tests

Question 13

Jack Kerouac (3)

Answer 13

• most prominent of a group of 60s writers wnd intellectuals
• known as beatniks
• rebelled against society

Question 14

Levittown (3)

Answer 14

• name giver to suburbs
• built all over the nation
• during the 50s

Question 15

black panthers (4)

Answer 15

• paramilitary group organized by Huey Newton and bobby seale
• advocated black power and equal rights
• for blacks who were subjected to discrimination and segregation
• in their communities

Question 16

Malcolm X (2)

Answer 16

• once a spokesman for the black Muslim movement

* eventually developed his own beliefs in his fight for black equality

Question 17

Cesar Chavez (4)

Answer 17

• activist
• United farm workers organization
• in response to low paying jobs
• for farm workers

Question 18

aim (3)

Answer 18

• young urban Native American activists
• who protested against poor conditions on reservations
• wanted restitution for past mistreatment

Question 19

domino theory (3)

Answer 19

• theory that if one asian nation
• fell into communism
• all of them will follow

Question 20

lbj (3)

Answer 20

• took over for jfk
• passed many of his bills
• through his domestic policy the great society

Question 21

Miranda v AZ (3)

Answer 21

• most important case spelling the rights of the accused
• where “you have the right to remain silent” came from
• cemented that state and local authorities must grant all of the accused the same rights

Question 22

engel v vitale and 1962 (3)

Answer 22

• Supreme Court ruled that schools cannot force
• students to say prayer at the beginning of the day
• or at any time of the day

Question 23

Betty Friedan (3)

Answer 23

• wrote the feminine mystique
• which attacked the attitude that women could only be housewives
• led to the formation of NOW

Question 24

great society (4)

Answer 24

• same for johnsons domestic programs
• he wanted to improve the lives of all Americans
• with programs such as head start
• and the elementary and secondary education act

Question 25

gulf of Tonkin resolution (6)

Answer 25

• resolution by lbj
• that he used to justify
• increased US intervention
• in Vietnam
• where there was a report of an attack
• on US ships in the gulf of Tonkin

Question 26

tet offensive (4)

Answer 26

• early 1968
• NV launched successful tet offensive
• against SV
• showed american public that this was was not such an easy victory as the govt reporter

Question 27

my lai (3)

Answer 27

• an attack on w Vietnamese village
• accused of hiding Vietcong
• where hundreds of innocent villagers were attacked

Question 28

counterculture (3)

Answer 28

• young people of the 60s
• expressing themselves through music, drugs, dress, and communal living
• called hippies

Question 29

student democratic society (3)

Answer 29

• at first preached autonomy and liberty
• for equal rights
• but eventually became more militant

Question 30

SALT (2)

Answer 30

• strategic arms limitation treaty

* THATD limit milit build up btwn 2 superpowers

Question 31

detente (4)

Answer 31

• a policy developed by Nixon and Kissinger
• focused on easing tensions btwn the U.S. and the Soviet Union
• during the Cold War
• though negotiations such as SALT

Question 32

Kent state (3)

Answer 32

• uni in Ohio
• four ppl were shot
• protesting in Vietnam war

Question 33

Vietnamization (6)

Answer 33

• nixons policy
• of a gradual pull out of American troops
• from Vietnam
• while supplying south Vietnamese troops
• with money, weapons, and training
• to continue the war themselves