Governor of Alabama who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to protest its order to integrate. He later ran for President on a platform of continued segregation.

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Governor of Alabama who stood in the doorway of
the University of Alabama to protest its order to
integrate. He later ran for President on a
platform of continued segregation.
National Law passed to guarantee voting
privileges to African Americans across the nation.
African American man who was the first to go to a
formerly segregated University of Mississippi.
African American group that advocated black
nationalism and separation from white society.
They were also a religious group who required
members to convert to the Muslim religion.
Spokesperson for the controversial Nation of
Islam. Advocated black nationalism and separation
from white society. Accepted the use of violence
in order to defend oneself against civil rights
abuses.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
George Wallace
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
James Meredith
Idea promoted by Stokley Carmichael to describe
the idea that African Americans should control
their social, economic, and political lives and
separate from white society if needed.
He was the Attorney General under John F. Kennedy
and later became the leading candidate for the
President in 1968 before he was assassinated by
Sirhan Sirhan.
The convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
Name of the South Vietnamese communist fighters
who were our opponents in the Vietnam War.
Resolution that asked the U.S. Congress for
permission to retaliate against North Vietnam for
attacks against U.S. vessels in the waters near
Vietnam. LBJ issued the Resolution and soon
thereafter escalated the war in Vietnam.
Black Power
Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin
Robert Kennedy
James Earl Ray
Practice of giving college bound students an
exemption from the draft sending men to fight in
Vietnam. This became one of the major issue
protested in the war.
This was the turning point of the Vietnam
Conflict as the Communist forces mounted a
massive offensive and although they were defeated
it served to discourage the American military and
public. Jan. 1968
College campus where Vietnam War protests were
met with the gunfire of National Guard troops and
several students were killed.
Secret documents leaked to the NY Times that told
of the activites of several Presidents to
escalate the war in Vietnam without the Congress
or publics knowledge.
Law passed after the Vietnam War which limits the
Presidents ability to send troops into battle
without the approval of Congress.
Deferments
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act
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Tet Offensive
Kent State
Organization that was formed to advocate the
rights of women as a group. Helped to led the
womens movement of the 60s and 70s.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment that would have
guaranteed equal rights regardless of sex.
Proposed Amendment has never been ratified.
Leader of the migrant farm workers union that
formed in the 60s and 70s to improve the wages
and conditions these workers were receiving.
Name given to members of the counter culture
movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They often
objected to societal norms and experimented with
communal living and hallucinogenic drugs.
Elected President in 1968. Had been Vice
President under Eisenhow. Policy of détente
helped to ease the Cold War tensions. Policy of
Vietnamization led to U.S. withdrawal from
Vietnam. Resigned as President after the
Watergate scandal.
Cesar Chavez
NOW
ERA
Hippies
Richard Nixon
Policy of Nixon to return control of many
government programs to state and local government
rather than national government control.
Nixons policy of relaxing tensions between the
superpowers. Led to several arms reduction
treaties with the USSR and a state visit to
communist China in 1972.
Name of the crisis that forced President Nixon to
resign as President of the U.S.
Elected President in 1976 as a non-Washington
outsider. Led peace talks with Egypt and Israel.
Followed a human rights foreign policy.
Crisis under Jimmy Carter that involved the
taking of hostages from a U.S. embassy in a
foreign nation.
New Federalism
Jimmy Carter
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Detente
Watergate
Peace Treaty signed between Egypt and Israel at
the Presidential retreat in Maryland under the
leadership of Jimmy Carter.
President who led a conservative revolution in
the 1980s. Reduced taxes and increased military
spending. Ran high deficits. Iran-Contra Scandal
in his second term as President.
War fought in 1991 against Iraq to force them to
withdraw from the nation of Kuwait. George Bush
was the President
Elected President in 1992. Signed the NAFTA
agreement to create a free trade network. Worked
with Congress to balance the budget and create a
budget surplus. Second President to be impeached,
but was found not guilty.
Agreement made with American voters by the 1990s
Republican Congress to reduce government spending
and to produce a balanced budget.
Camp David Accord
Bill Clinton
Contract with America
Ronald Reagan
Persian Gulf War