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JMillerUnit 8 Review
Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amendment that forbids poll taxes | 26th |
| Supreme Court Case that made segregation legal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| city where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus | Montgomery, Alabama |
| city where a group of black students gained national attention trying to go to school | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| year that the March on Washington occurred | 1963 |
| city where civil rights protesters were met with fire hoses and dogs | Birmingham, Alabama |
| most visible leader of the civil rights movement | Martin Luther King, Jr |
| main method advocated by the SCLC and SNCC | non-violent protest |
| communist leader of Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| main reason for US entrance into Vietnam | to contain communism in Southeast Asia |
| many of the anti-war protests focused on ______ | the draft |
| President that called in federal troops to integrate Little Rock | Eisenhower |
| this was used as a defoliant to kill plant life | Agent Orange |
| year that JFK was assassinated | 1963 |
| name of LBJ's domestic program | Great Society |
| assassinated JFK | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| replace JFK as president | LBJ |
| court case that ended segregation | Brown v. Board of Education |
| religious group that advocated a separate society for African Americans | Nation of Islam |
| assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan | Robert F. Kennedy |
| communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| turning point of Vietnam | Tet Offensive |
| name of the New Frontier program that sent volunteers to poor nations | Peace Corps |
| assassinated by James Earl Ray | Martin Luther King, Jr |
| OPEC cut off the supply of _____ to the US | oil |
| program under LBJ that provides medical care for the elderly | Medicare |
| only president to resign from office | Richard Nixon |
| place of the beginning of the sit-in movmenet | Greensboro |
| citizens who rode interstate buses into the south to integrate the buses | Freedom Riders |
| law that banned discrimination in public places | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| this event led to LBJ asking Congress to escalate the war efforts in Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin |
| these documents revealed that several presidents acted without knowledge of Congress in Vietnam | Pentagon Papers |
| this led to LBJ cutting Great Society programs | Vietnam |
| Nixon's policy that helped ease tensions around the world, especially with USSR and China | detente |
| this President gave Nixon a full pardon | Gerald Ford |
| Martin Luther King, Jr's speech at the March on Washington | I Have a Dream |
| failed invasion of Cuba | Bay of Pigs |
| this event almost led to nuclear war with USSR over missiles placed near the US | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| this status was given to college students to avoid the draft | deferments |
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