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Bell West EO #5
Bellevue West American History EO #5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The importance of Brown v. Board of Education ruling | It stated that separae educationa; facilities were unequal |
| Result of civil rights legislation | Thousands of African Americans could vote for the first time. |
| Why some African Americans rejected nonviolence and called for more radical action | The gains in civil right came so slowly. |
| The goal JFK challenged the nation to achieve by the end of the 1960s | To land a man on the moon. |
| The action that started the Cuban Missle Crisis | Soviets placing missles in Cuba |
| In the 1960s, what inspired women and ethnic minorities? | The civil rights movement and other activism. |
| Targets of 1960s activism | Consumer Protection, Environmentalism, and Nuclear Power. |
| One result of the counterculture of the 1960s | Increase in individualism and distrust of authority. |
| The United States entered the Vietnam War | To defeat Communist forces threatening South Vietnam. |
| The Vietnam War finally ended in 1975 | When North Vietnam gained control over all of Vietnam. |
| The primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s | Was the demand of U.S. withdrawal fron Vietnam |
| To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, who encouraged a policy of nonviolent protest? | Martin Luther king, Jr and other members of the SCLC |
| Resulted in violent clashes during the civil rights movement | The Freedom Riders, the integration of "ole Miss", and protest in Birmingham. |
| People assassinated in the 1960s | John F. Kennedy, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King, Jr |
| What made the Tet Offensive a turning point in the war? | It made Americans question the country's involement in Vietnam. |