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1 Unit 4

2 This president wanted to desegregate the armed forces

3 Truman

4 Who was the MLB player who started integration?

5 Jackie Robinson

6 What court case ruled segregation in schools was unequal?

7 Brown v. Board of Education

8 President Eisenhower ordered troops to protect these students:

9 Little Rock Nine

10 At lunch counters, protesters used this technique:

11 Sit-in

12 Did the Governor of Alabama intervene in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

13 no

14 What was the issue that the March on Washington in 1963 was promoting? (Think MLKJr)

15 Civil Rights

16 Did the Civil Rights act of 1964 ban protests?

17 no

18 Did the Freedom Riders experience violence in many states?

19 yes

20 What Hispanic worked to unionize workers in a peaceful manner?

21 Cesar Chavez

22 This program included Medicare, Housing and Urban Development, and the Voting Rights Act

23 The great society

24 What incident triggered the Vietnam War?

25 Gulf of Tonkin

26 Who was the communist leader of Vietnam?

27 Ho Chi Minh

28 This type of fighting is surprise, ruthless, and tough to beat

29 Guerilla Tactics

30 These papers revealed how deceptive the US Government had been in reporting the progress of the war

31 Pentagon Papers

32 When Saigon fell, Vietnam became

33 communist

34 This amendment reduced the voting age to 18

35 26th

36 What Act limited the President’s ability to declare war?

37 War Powers Act

38 What event is credited with turning the American people against the Vietnam war?

39 Tet Offensive

40 This theory says that if one country falls to communism, the surrounding countries are also at risk

41 Domino Theory

42 This event featured three days of bands, mud, and hippies

43 Woodstock

44 What event caused Richard Nixon to resign?

45 Watergate

46 This leader urged “Black Power”

47 Stokley Carmichael

48 This leader encouraged non-violent resistance

49 MLK Jr.

50 This leader launched a War on Poverty with his “Great Society.”

51 LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)

52 This leader was assassinated in Dallas in 1963

53 JFK

54 This woman started the bus boycott

55 Rosa Parks

56 This woman launched a debate on Gender roles

57 Betty Friedan

58 This leader was one of the Little Rock Nine

59 Elizabeth Eckford

60 This leader worked to end discrimination in the armed forces

61 A. Phillip Randolph

62 This author wrote about the ills of pesticides

63 Rachel Carson

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