Crossword Flashcards

(37 cards)

1
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Martin Luther King

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Assassination of him set off race riots in many American cities

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2
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Freedom riders

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Rode through the deep South to test integration laws on our interstate highways

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3
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Voting rights act

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And literacy tests and poll taxes

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4
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The __________ appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in February 1964 kicking off the musical British invasion

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Beatles

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Saigon

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Capital of South Vietnam change its name to Ho Chi Minh city after the war

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6
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NASA’s Apollo program

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Helped keep Americans unified as we reached for the moon

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7
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By 1968 America had over 500,000 __________serving in Vietnam

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Soldiers

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Senator Robert Kennedy

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Brother of the slain president was shot and killed after running for office in June

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9
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Militant civil rights leader of 1960s

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Malcolm X

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10
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Nixon is the only president to _________from office

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Resign

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President _________ popularity was damaged by the warm Vietnam and he decided not to run for reelection

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Johnsons

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12
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Oswald

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Accused of killing President Kennedy

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13
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President Ford

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Pardon Nixon even know people who worked for him went to prison

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14
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President _________ appealed to the silent majority when he won the presidency in 1968

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Nixon

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15
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Saigon was finally captured by the _________forces of north Vietnam in 1975

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Communist

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16
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Bob Woodward and Car Bernstein were the two _______ that exposed Watergate

17
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Communist rebels in South Vietnam

18
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President Kennedy

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Assassinated in Dallas Texas

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Over 50,000 Americans and approximately 2 million Vietnamese, ________ as a result of the conflict

20
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The Supreme Court demand that Nixon turnover White House _______

21
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Sit in protest

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We sometimes use the protests “whites only”counter service at restaurants

22
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The generation gap

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Used to describe the division between young and old Americans in the 1968

23
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President Johnson’s war on poverty and Medicare plan was part of his ________ __________.

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Great Society

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Our Cold War nemesis the ________ _______ was supply North Vietnam with weapons and supplies

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The process of removing the president from office
Impeachment
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Surefire evidence to crime is known as a_____ ______.
Smoking gun
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Woodstock New York
Highpoint of the 1960s counterculture movement took place with hundreds of thousands of hippies met at a rock concert here
28
Domino theory
Stated that of my country turns communist other nations in the region will follow
29
The_____for the Vietnam war ended in 1973, and we haven't had one cents
Draft
30
Golf of Tonkin Incident in 1964
After President Johnson receive congressional permission to ramp up the war Vietnam
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Vietnam is called a living room or because Americans could watch live coverage on_______.
Television
32
In August, 1968, massive rides are broke it outside the democratic national convention in_____.
Chicago
33
Acronym for prisoner of war
POW
34
The North Vietnamese and Vietcong saw the war as a struggle against__________.
Colonialism
35
Motown
This Detroit record label dominated the air waves with groups like the Supremes, the four tops, and the temptations
36
Watergate scandal
Led to the downfall of President Nixon
37
Four students were shot and killed at _____________ state university want to protest turn tragic in 1970
Kent