History 11.06 + Quiz

Because he used nonviolent protest to achieve change.

People outside of the South were horrified by the beatings People outside of the South were horrified by the beatings. 20,000 people marched and were protected by the National Guard. Photos and television helped the civil rights movement because the rest of the country could see the horrifying events..

after converting to Islam.

History 11.08 + Quiz

U.S. Failed in Vietnam Guerrilla Warfare History of Vietnam U.S. Assumed instead of asking questions Vietnamese wanted freedom from ALL foreign governments (including U.S.) U.S. supported corrupt Vietnamese leaders

History 11.09 + Quiz

History 11.10 + Quiz

Women on TV in the 1950s ALWAYS Happy Cleaning, cooking, raising children White women only

How do you think women in the 1950s really felt about their lives? Had to stay home, cook, clean, married, have children Paid less if they worked Couldn’t go to college Had to look perfect

(book of interviews and anecdotes of women dissatisfied with their lives) Anti-ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), Anti-Feminist

History Tests 11.15 Test Part 1 (66 points due 5/2) Kennedy (JFK) Kennedy’s speech at the Berlin Wall 1963: Traveled to Texas for support of his New Frontier (civil rights, women’s rights, aid to the poor) program and unity in the state!

Missiles were close Communists were only 90 miles away!!

Birmingham, Alabama Bull Connor Americans outside of the south were HORRIFIED!

1963 March to D.C. showed the strength of the Civil Rights Movement

-- African Americans were poor in the Northern inner cities (poor schools)—Poor whites separated from poor blacks

Selma: Minister’s March President LBJ called Selma a Tragedy and Americans outside of the south were horrified! In the first march, protestors were beaten! In the second march, 20,000 people marched!

*Allowed LBJ to bomb North Vietnam because Americans were afraid of Asian Communist countries!! Johnson did not run for a second term because of the stress of Vietnam (high cost and people were protesting the war).

Cesar Chavez unionized farm workers through peaceful protest. Vietnam War Cesar Chavez unionized farm workers through peaceful protest. Americans did not trust the government’s reasons for staying in the Vietnam war Both Democratic and Republican leaders supported the war to show unity Vietnamese fought using Guerrilla Warfare (America did not know how to fight this type of war) Vietnam did not want ANY foreign government in their country in America did not ask enough questions or learn Vietnamese history America supported corrupt leaders Supported MLK, Chavez Wanted to end poverty and racial inequity

Against Martin Luther King, Jr’s peaceful protest stance!