Week 32 New Flashcards
Laws in America that enforced the segregation of races:
Jim Crow Laws
The movement of protest in America against the unjust laws of segregation:
Civil Rights Movement
African American woman arrested for occupying a white man’s bus seat:
Rosa Parks
Minister who led the Civil Rights Movement through non-violent protest:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The second major conflict fought during the Cold War:
the Vietnam War
Event that demonstrated the end of communist rule in Europe and signified the end of the Cold War:
the fall of the Berlin Wall
Dates of the Vietnam War
1957-1975
“Ask not what your country can do for you— ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
“I have a dream…” Who said it?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream…” What was the occasion?
a speech in Washington against segregation