USA Flashcards
(23 cards)
John Fitzgerald, Kennedy
Became presidents of the USA on 1960
Truman doctrine
Military alliances, such as NATO interventions, 1947
Origin of racism
Wasp people were considered powerful and represented purity
Segregation
People discriminated, separated
What did Lincoln done?
He abolished slavery in 1864
The Jim Crow laws
White and black could be separated on transport restaurant park schools
Ku klux klan
Black people violence to preserve segregation
Rosa parks
Civil rights activist, she refused to give up seat in the best and get arrested,boycott the buses
The Washington March
Peaceful march, Ziya West to pressure Kennedy to introduce civil right bill
Martin Luther King
Nonviolent protest, busboycott
Malcolm X
Rejected MLK non-violence
Decolonization
Independence war between France and Vietnamese
What was the political situation in Vietnam?
It was a civil war
Vietcong’s
South Vietnamese communist
Tonkin gulf resolution
Allowed US to increase number of soldier sent to Vietnam= legal war
Where did USA military
They bombed village with napalm bomb, they destroy missions to kill Vietcong’s
US Army figures heavy losses
They had a bad moral and economically they spend a lot to Vietnam
Draft dodgers
Students opposed to the war
No censorship in the US
They could see on the string everything that was happening in Vietnam
What did the American sing about the Vietnam war
They denounced method. They said it was a dirty war. It was immoral and unequal.
What happened in New York City on 1967
A demonstration with veterans campaign peace
Black Panther
It was a group of people protesting against the war
Treaty of Paris
1973, it’s marks the end of Vietnam wat
