Civil Rights/ Vietnam War Vocabulary

8. A major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
10. He became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement
11. groups compete in increases in military personnel and material
15. investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938
16. case that parents were allowed to educate their children outside of either the public school system or traditional private schools
17. A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
18. collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
21. Term coined by Richard Nixon
22. decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment

1. it was pressuring American leaders to reconsider its commitments
2. Supreme Court ruling that cemented students rights to free speech in public schools
3. aimed to reduce American involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.
4. Was one of the co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
5. granted the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older
6. case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
7. Was one of the co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
9. 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States
12. describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War
13. Klux Klan born in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a private club for Confederate veterans.
14. a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States
19. also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese
20. She was known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott