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60's Civil Rights #2
1960's & Civil Rights TERMS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vietnamization | Replacing U.S. Soldiers with South Vietnamese |
| Black Panthers | African-Americans who had violent clashes with police |
| Agent Orange | chemical used to kill jungle plants |
| Doves | Opposed to Vietnam War |
| Deferments | College students could get out of the draft |
| Medicare | Help paying medical bills |
| SNCC | Trained people for sit-ins |
| NOW | Tried to get an Equal Rights Amendment |
| Tonkin Gulf | U.S. ships supposedly attacked here |
| Kent State | Four college students killed while protesting |
| Bay of Pigs | Failed invasion of Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | American planes took pictures of Russian missiles built in Cuba |
| Tet Offensive | Massive North Vietnamese attack |
| Freedom Riders | Visited bus stations across the South |
| HUAC | Group that tried to find communists in our government |
| NATO | 12 free countries set this up to protect themselves and prevent future wars |
| USSR | Soviet Union |
| Sputnik | First U.S. Satellite |
| Iron Curtain | Division between communist and free countries in Europe |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Supreme Court case that ruled separate was not equal (ended school segregation) |
| Marshall Plan | U.S. plan to rebuild Europe after WW2 |
| Containment | Keeping communism from spreading further |
| Berlin Airlift | The U.S. dropped supplies here |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist countries joined together in 1955 |
| Baby Boom | Large population explosion |
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