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American History
Chapter 24 and 25 study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| was organized in response to arrest of Rosa Parks | Bus Boycott |
| derived much of his philosophy from mohandas ghandi | MLK |
| successfully used sit-ins to integrate restaurants | CORE |
| stood for the family name of his African ancestors who had been enslaved | X in Malcom X's name |
| a rapid rollback of segregation laws, he believed racism should end gradually. | President Eisenhower |
| promised in his campaign to actively support civil rights | JFK |
| Believed in nonviolence to end segregation | MLK |
| organized to draw attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals | freedom riders |
| civil rights movement focused on what instead of economic and social issues | segregation and voting rights |
| encouraged whites southerns to defy court rulings | southern manifesto |
| was formed by student activists | SNCC |
| Famous "I Have A Dream" speech was given by MLK at | March on Washington |
| was not the first president since reconstruction to send federal troops in to the south to protect the rights of African Americans | JFK |
| protest because african americans were the majority, but only a fraction of them was registered to vote | Selma, AL march |
| a militant black group who believed violence and revolution were necessary | black panthers |
| segregation by custom and tradition rather than by law | defacto segregation |
| segregation laws in the south | Jim crow laws |
| 1896, created the separate but equal doctrine | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| list each following court case | Brown v, board education norris v alabama morgan v virginia sweatt v painter |
| 2 events that convinced truman to help race in vietnam | fall out of china outbreak of korean war |
| made the vietnam war very hard to win by placing limits on the war | President Johnson |
| increased need for soldiers in vietnam did put them at risk | College students |
| gave its war powers to the president with the gulf of tokin resolution | congress |
| ungrateful to soldiers returning from Vietnam | whole Americans |
| destroy landscape where Vietcong could not hide in the jungles | goal of agent orange |
| communist rebels supported by the North Vietnamese Govt. | Vietcong |
| revealed hat the govt. had not been honest with the public about Vietnam | Pentagon papers |
| coverage from the Vietnam war helped create a credibility gap | nightly news |
| main reason for pres. Johnson not ordering a full scale invasion of north Vietnam was | fear that it would bring china into the war |
| Kennedy felt he needed to stand up to communism in Vietnam because | many republicans blamed the Truman administration for losing china to communism |
| Tet offensive was a major turning point in Vietnam War because | communists forces scored a major political victory |
| massacre of south vietnamese civilians by American Troops | My Lai |
| chemical that strips leaves from trees and shrubs | agent orange. |
| strategy that led troops to count bodies after battles | war of attrition |
| improving relations with the Soviet Union and China to persuade them to cut back their aid to North Vietnam | Linkage |
| temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel | Geneva Accords |
| soldier whose fate was undeterminded | MIA |
| jellied gasoline that explodes on contact | Napalm |
| named Ho Chi Minh City after reunification | saigon |
| forces made up of north and south vietnamese but supplied By North Vietnam | Vietcong |
| fear that a communist vietnam would lead to other southeast asian communist govts | domino theory |
| From late 1800s to WW2, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were collectively known as | French indochin |
| guerilla army organized by Ho Chi Minh to reunify Vietnam | Vietcong |
| network of jungle paths used by north vietnam to send arms and supplies | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| 2 division of people in nation during vietnam | doves who wanted to back off hawks who wanted to stay and fight |
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