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- 4. This Civil Rights leader was a supporter of acheiving equal rights "by any means necessary"
- 7. An incident here results in a resolution under LBJ to escalate involvement in Vietnam
- 8. Civil rights figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X., and President JFK faced this same violent fate.
- 9. Many argued the ____ was unfair, calling the Vietnam War "the poor man's fight"
- 11. A former SNCC Chairman and former Black Panther, this man supported ideas like "Black Power"
- 13. Beginning prior to the war, this herbicide was used by the US to clear vegetation in Vietnam - but resulted in detrimental effects.
- 14. In 1947, Truman's Doctrine supported this idea
- 17. In an event known as Bloody Sunday, the March from _____ to Montgomery, Alabama was a turning point in the fight for equal voting rights
- 19. In this shocking incident from the Vietnam War, US soldiers opened fire on civilians
- 22. this event marks a turning point in US involvement in Vietnam
- 23. Laws like the 24th Amendment and Voting Rights Act secured the right to vote and participate in the American ________
- 24. To avoid ______, Nixon resigned from the Presidency in 1974
- 25. This idea was supported by leaders like Stokely Carmichael
- 26. This was a student-led activist group from the Civil Rights Era
- 27. In this leak of confidential government information, Americans learned the truth about US involvement in Vietnam
- 28. Nonviolent demonstrations such as the ____ (plural) in Greensboro, where one would refuse to leave a lunch counter without being served, were effective in the civil rights movement
- 29. This protest ends in violence and increases distrust in the government
- 30. This legislation removed arbitrary barriers to participating in civil democracy
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- 1. This President escalated involvement in Vietnam following the "Tonkin Gulf Resolution"
- 2. Civil Rights leaders like Dr. MLK Jr and Malcom X advocated against the _____ of African Americans and other minority groups
- 3. The US agreed to withdraw from Vietnam in 1973 with the signing of the ceasefire known as the _____ _____ Accords
- 5. If one country falls...others could follow
- 6. This scandal intensified distrust in the US government under President Nixon.
- 10. Along with Agent Orange, US forces used this flammable material to destroy suspected enemy territory
- 12. Leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported nonviolent acts, such as ______ _______.
- 14. The Pentagon Papers revealed that President Eisenhower sent ____ agents to Vietnam in confidential missions
- 15. In this process, the US slowly turned over the ground war to the South Vietnamese while the US provided air power and logistical support
- 16. Throughout the Cold War era, the US kept a foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of ________.
- 18. This President implemented a policy known as "Vietnamization"
- 20. Enemey communists of the United States during the Vietnam War
- 21. Beginning in 1965, US ground troops were ordered on missions to ____ _____ ______ enemies in Vietnam