M-Unit 9: Civil Rights & Vietnam

5. After the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam belonged to what colonial power?
6. Group of students that Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus sent troops to keep students from integrating schools- president would send troops to override Faubus.
7. Conscription in the military, unless you were given exemptions for family, faith or college enrollment.
8. This amendment was passed as a result of Vietnam War to lower the voting age to 18.
9. This overturned the powers President Johnson & Nixon had in the Vietnam War to limit the president's powers to declare war.
13. The act of separating races made possible with Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) then declared unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
15. The ________________ Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on race, gender, and color.
16. President __________ took over after Kennedy was assassinated and kept the fight for Civil Rights, including passing his Great Society programs.

1. Cold War policy aimed to keep Communism from spreading.
2. Militant group that fought for equality for African Americans founded by Huey P. Newton.
3. MLK met with President _________ after the March on Washington, but he was assassinated in Dallas November 22, 1963.
4. The United States getting involved in Korean & Vietnam War assuming that if one country fell to communism, other countries in SE Asia would fall too.
10. The gap between what the government told the public about the Vietnam War versus what was really happening, which led the people to not trust the government.
11. Leader of the United Farm Worker's Movement fighting for better working conditions and wages for migrant workers.
12. President Johnson lied about an attack to escalate war & send troops to Vietnam after the Gulf of ________ incident.
14. Attorney for Brown v. Board of Education fighting for an end to segregation, and will serve as Supreme Court Justice starting in 1967.