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CIVIL RIGHTS, COLD WAR, & VIETNAM

Teacher: Mr. Toler
Horizontales
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans,
_____ but equal; principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson case that permitted segregation
Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter; his beliefs were the basis of a lot of the Black Power movement built on seperationist and nationalist impulses to achieve true independence and equality
a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
1973. A resolution of Congress that stated the President can only send troops into action abroad by authorization of Congress or if America is already under attack or serious threat.
a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production
a social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. They gave speeches, marched in the streets, and participated in boycotts.
a mob that takes the law into its own hands in which usually results in death of the accused
North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment
A method to deny blacks (and poor whites) right to vote during the Jim Crow Era by requiring reading or civics test in order to vote. Could be selectively applied. Prohibited by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Constitutional amendment that ended slavery
Verticales
Leader and organizer of the United Farm Workers who fought for better wages and working conditions for migrant workers
American Indian Movement;an Indian activist organization in the United States.
LBJ declared war on this; his goal was to bring poor into mainstream society by promoting greater opportunity
an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR.
society owns all businesses and splits all profits for the good of the society and equality
Mutually Assured Destruction; A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.
Racial segregation that occurs in schools, not as a result of the law, but as a result of patterns of residential settlement
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
is a form of civil disobedience in which organized group of workers in which the workers refuse to move
Movement in the 1960s to present. argued that the traditional family form is oppressive for women and children. takes away womens independence and that we need to start looking at families differently
failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs.
18 year olds can vote
Constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race
segregation by law