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36 Cards in this Set
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De facto segregation |
Segregation by custom and tradition |
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"With deliberate speed" |
Vague ruling that gave segregationists the opportunity to resist |
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Boycott |
Peaceful protest by voluntarily abstaining from use |
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Passive resistance |
Peaceful protest |
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Little Rock Crisis |
National Guard had to be called in to escort black student after desegregating |
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Sit-in |
Blacks sitting in white locations as peaceful protest |
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Freedom Riders |
Protestors who ignored segregation laws on busses (sat in white locations) |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail |
Piece written by MLK Jr. while arrested at Birmingham Jail |
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Watts Riot |
Race riots in Watts (LA) |
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Black Power |
Political and economic power of African Americans to make people respect their rights |
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French Indochina |
Formed of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos |
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Vietminh |
Vietnamese nationalist group |
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Domino Theory |
Once Vietnam became communist, other countries will too |
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Guerillas |
Troops dressed as civilians for hit and run tactics |
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Geneva accords |
Split Vietnam along 17 parallel |
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Viet Cong |
South Vietnamese communists |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Authorized the president to make all necessary repel attacks |
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Agent Orange |
Defoliate forests |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
North Vietnam sent soldiers and supplies to South Vietnam on the trail |
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Credibility Gap |
Gap between believing media and the government |
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Tet Offensive |
Communist attacks on South Vietnam major cities |
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Vietnamization |
The pulling out of the US troops |
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My Lai |
Small hamlet where a massacre happened in 1969 |
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Kent State Protest |
Anti-war protest resulting in 4 deaths because of the National Guard |
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Christmas Bombing |
US air raids to encourage peace |
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MIA |
Missing In Action |
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POW |
Prisoner Of War |
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Wars Powers Act |
Act that limits executive power in war making decisions |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
Separate but Equal |
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Norris v Alabama |
Ruled that exclusion of African Americans from the jury was unconstitutional |
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Sweatt v Painter |
Challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation |
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Brown v Board of Education |
Deemed separate public schools for blacks and white students to be unconstitutional |
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Rosa Parks |
A civil rights activist who was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus and inspired the boycott of busses |
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Martin Luther King Jr |
A civil rights activist who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech and was assassinated |
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Thurgood Marshal |
The lawyer that fought and won the Brown v Board of Education case |
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Dwight D Eisenhower |
The president who dispatched federal troops to ensure safety for integrated students in Little Rock |
