A U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Worked with an interracial group of students to use freedom rides to make changes.
  • Viet Cong
  • Community Action Program
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Congress of Racial Equality
In 1954, Vietminh rebels besieged a French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, deep in the interior of northern Vietnam. In May, after the United States refused to intervene, Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists.
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Viet Cong
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
It was the resolution of Congress passed in1964, in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, to take all necessary measures to repel armed attack ..
  • Community Action Program
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war when President Kennedy insisted that Nikita Khrushchev (leader of the USSR) remove the 42 missiles he had secretly inserted in Cuba. The Soviets eventually did so, nuclear war was averted, and the crisis ended.
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • Freedom Summer
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
It was an effort to involve members of poor communities in the planning and administration of the programs designed to help them. It provided jobs to poor people but was impossible to sustain.
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Medicaid
  • Community Action Program
  • Viet Cong
A network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail
It eliminated quotas based on national origin. Occupation and skills are now the criteria used to judge entry into the US. It also set immigration limit.
  • Immigration Act of 1960
  • Immigration Act of 2065
  • Immigration Act of 1965
  • Immigration Act of 1865
In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • George Wallace
  • Richard Nixon
  • March On Washington
A program added to the Social Security system in 1965 that provides hospitalization insurance for the elderly and permits older Americans to purchase inexpensive coverage for doctor fees and other health expenses.
  • Freedom Summer
  • Medicare
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • Black Power
-- Elected President in 1968 and 1972 representing the Republican party. He was responsible for getting the United States out of the Vietnam War by using "Vietnamization", He was responsible for the Nixon Doctrine and was the first President to ever resign, due to the Watergate scandal.
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • March On Washington
  • John Kennedy
  • Richard Nixon
The President during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the Cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on TV and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the Soviet Union to withdraw their missiles. Other events which were during his terms was the building of the Berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war.
  • Ho Chi Minh Trail
  • John Kennedy
  • Freedom Summer
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
american politician; attorney general during brother's (JFK) presidency and was assassinated during his bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination
  • John Kennedy
  • Robert Kennedy
  • New Frontier
  • George Wallace
-- Founded in 1960 by black college students to provide a focus for the sit-in movement and to conduct voter registration drives in the South. They roused the fury of Southern segregationists
  • Malcolm X
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Great Society
It is a federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who are with low income and limited resources.
  • Viet Cong
  • Community Action Program
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Medicaid
In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion ended in disaster, happened under President Kennedy.
  • Viet Cong
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Community Action Program
  • Bay of Pigs
1950s and 60s. He was the communist leader of North Vietnam who used geurilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable
  • Viet Cong
  • Dien Bien Phu
  • Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Ho Chi Minh
-- 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), eventual defeat for communism (with huge casualties), but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Richard Nixon
  • Great Society
  • Tet Offensive
He was a leader of the militant Nation of Islam, arrives in Washington , D.C, in May 1963 to set up a headquarters for the organization there. After he was assassinated in 1965, he became a widely revered here among African American.
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Malcolm X
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Great Society
civil rights campaign of the Congress of Racial Equality in which protesters traveled by bus through the South to desegregate bus stations. White violence against them prompted the Kennedy administration to protect them and become more involved in civil rights.
  • Great Society
  • Malcolm X
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Freedom Rides
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. It meant to solve large social problems like hunger and poverty.
  • Malcolm X
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Great Society
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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