Module 24-25

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

African Americna lawyer who led the legal challenee against segregation

Question 2

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 2

Supreme court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

Question 3

Rosa Parks

Answer 3

Women who helped start Montgomery bus boycott

Question 4

Matin Luther King Jr

Answer 4

Leader of the civil rights movement

Question 5

Sithern Chritstian Leadership Confrence (SCLC)

Answer 5

Civil rights organization

Question 6

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Answer 6

Civil rights organization formed by students

Question 7

Sit in

Answer 7

Protest tactic of occupying seats and refusing to move

Question 8

Freedom riders

Answer 8

Civil righrs activist who tried to end segregation on national buses

Question 9

James Meredith

Answer 9

African American who won enrollment to the all white Uni of MIssissippi

Question 10

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 10

law that outlined racial discrimination

Question 11

Freedom Summer

Answer 11

Name of project to win voting rights for southern blacks

Question 12

Fannie Lou Hamer

Answer 12

Prominent voting rights activist

Question 13

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 13

Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting

Question 14

de facto segregation

Answer 14

Segregation by cutom or practice

Question 15

de jure segregation

Answer 15

segregation by law

Question 16

Malcom X

Answer 16

African AMerican civil rights leader

Question 17

Nation of Islam

Answer 17

Group headed by Muhammad

Question 18

Stokey Carmicheal

Answer 18

Leader of Black Power movement

Question 19

Black Power

Answer 19

movement that stressed black pride

Question 20

Black Panthers

Answer 20

Africna American group founded to combat police brutality

Question 21

Kerner Commision

Answer 21

Commission that reported race relations in America

Question 22

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Answer 22

Act that banned discrimnation in housing

Question 23

Affirmative action

Answer 23

Program aimed at hiring or including minorities

Question 24

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 24

Leader of Norht Vietnam

Question 25

Vietminh

Answer 25

Communist group led my Ho Chi Minh

Question 26

Domino theory

Answer 26

Eisenhowers explantation for stopping communism

Question 27

Dien Bien Phu

Answer 27

Major French Outpost captured by the Vietnam in two

Question 28

Geneva accords

Answer 28

Peace agreement that split vietnam in 2

Question 29

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 29

Leader of South Vietnam

Question 30

Vietcong

Answer 30

Communssit rebel group in SOuth Vietnam

Question 31

Ho CHi Minh Trail

Answer 31

Network of paths running between North and South Vietnam

Question 32

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Answer 32

Resolution that allowed Presdient Johnson to fight in Vietnam

Question 33

Robert McNamara

Answer 33

Secretary of defense under Johnson

Question 34

Dean Rusk

Answer 34

Secretary of state under Johnson

Question 35

William Westmoreland

Answer 35

Commander of US troops in vietnam

Question 36

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

Answer 36

South Vietnamese military forces

Question 37

Napalm

Answer 37

Gasoline based explosive

Question 38

Agent Orange

Answer 38

Chemial that destroys jungle land

Question 39

Search and destroy mission

Answer 39

Tactic in which US troops detroy vietnamese villages

Question 40

Credibility gap

Answer 40

Situation in which the US public no longer beleived Johnson adminmistration

Question 41

Draft

Answer 41

System for calling people to military service

Question 42

New Left

Answer 42

Name given to the youth movement of the 1960s

Question 43

Students for a democratic society (SDS)

Answer 43

Prominemnt group of the New Left

Question 44

Free Speech MOvement (FSM)

Answer 44

New LEft group that attacked buisness and government

Question 45

dove

Answer 45

American indivudal who called for AMerica to withdraw from vietnam

Question 46

hawk

Answer 46

American individual who suppoered the war effort

Question 47

Tet offensive

Answer 47

Series of Vietcong attacks during the 1968 Tet holiday

Question 48

Clark Clifford

Answer 48

A Lyndon Johnson adviser who became his secretary of defense

Question 49

Robert Kennedy

Answer 49

A democratic candidate for president in 1968

Question 50

Eugene McCarthy

Answer 50

A democractic presdential canadiate who ran on an antiwar platform

Question 51

Hubert Humphrey

Answer 51

The 1968 Democratic nominee for president

Question 52

George Wallace

Answer 52

A third patry candidate ion the 1968 presidential election

Question 53

Richard Nixon

Answer 53

President of the US in 1968

Question 54

Henergy Kissinger

Answer 54

Nixon adviser who helped negotiate and end to the war

Question 55

Vietnamization

Answer 55

President Nixions plan for ending Americas involement in the war

Question 56

Silent Majority

Answer 56

Thise mainstream AMericans who supported Nixons polices

Question 57

My lai

Answer 57

Site of massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American soliders

Question 58

Kent State Univeristy

Answer 58

Site of protest where national guard killed 4 students

Question 59

pentagon papers

Answer 59

Governemnt documents that hsowed the government had no real plan for leaving vietnam

Question 60

War powers act

Answer 60

Act that forbids the presdient from movilizing troops without congressional approval