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33 Cards in this Set
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Jim Crow laws |
Unofficial laws in the South for American Americans |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
1st supreme Court case: decides separate but equal |
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Separate but equal |
Legal to segregate as long as services offered both races |
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Brown v. Board |
2nd supreme Court case: segregation of public buildings is not ok |
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Brown II |
3rd s.c case: upheld/ informed brown v. Board |
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Crisis is little rock |
Little Rock 9 going to an all white school |
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Central high school |
High school that was forced to integrate |
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Civil rights act of 1964 |
made all races equal |
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Voting rights act of 1965 |
enforced voting rights for american americans |
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MLK Jr. |
voice/face/leader of civil rights movement |
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John F. Kennedy |
35th president of the US assassinated |
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Richard M. Nixon |
ran for president in 1960 became president in 1968 |
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Election of 1960 |
tv debates: election between Kennedy & Nixon |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Russia creates missle sites in Cuba |
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Nuclear test band treaty |
40 countries vow to not develop nukes |
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Bay of pigs |
JFK attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro |
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Fidel Castro |
New communist leader of Cuba |
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Berlin Crisis/ Berlin Wall |
Soviets build wall in order to separate city |
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Kennedy assassination |
JFK shot & killed while in Dallas, TX |
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Lee Harvey Oswald |
JFK assassin; lone gunman |
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Lyndon B. Johnson |
VP for JFK; president from 1962-1968 & Vietnam |
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Great Society |
Johnsons domestic policies for welfare |
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Vietnam |
new war, conflict in Southeast Asia |
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Indochina |
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, & Tailand |
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
Gave Johnson power w/o need for congress |
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Agent Orange |
Herbicide used to kill plants during Vietnam |
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Napalm |
flammable liquid used |
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Vietcong |
North Vietnamese guerilla fighters |
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Dove |
People against Vietnam War |
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Hawk |
People for the Vietnam war |
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Selective service |
draft |
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Tet offensive |
attack on 36 major cities |
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Vietnamization |
Nixon's belief of making Vietnam more American |
