US History- Vietnam War & AP US History Civil Rights Flashcards

9642885128	Vietminh	Communists in North Vietnam. Originally were formed to win independence from France.	0
9642885129	Vietcong	Communist rebel forces made up of Vietnamese that were supplied by North Vietnam Blend with jungle, used Booby traps	1
9642885130	Ho Chi Minh	The communist leader of North Vietnam	2
9642885131	Ho Chi Minh Trail	Used by North Vietnam to send arms and supplies south by way of a network of jungle paths	3
9642885132	Ngo Dinh Diem	The highly unpopular leader of South Vietnam, who was initially supported by the US	4
9642885133	Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	Gave Johnson a blank check to fight the war in Vietnam. Empowered President Lyndon Johnson to greatly increase U.S. military involvement in Vietnam	5
9642885134	American Tactics	bombing campaign against the north, called operation Rolling Thunder, massive search and destroy missions to find Vietnamese fighters, decreasing the moral of enemy through a war of attrition.	6
9642885135	Agent Orange	Used to clear forest vegetation that could hide Viet Cong soldiers.	7
9642885136	Vietnam Draft	person could avoid be drafted if they went to college, Minorities and low-income people were more likely to be sent to Vietnam, Some people refused to be drafted and fled the country or were arrested.	8
9642885137	Tet Offensive	New Years eve/day attack on South Vietnam /U.S. It increased the credibility gap between what President Lyndon Johnson said about the Vietnam War and what Americans saw on television	9
9642885138	My Lai	massacre of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops	10
9642885139	Invasion of Cambodia	Nixon ordered ,American people angered results in multiple protests in America	11
9642885140	Vietnamization	Began in 1970. The removal of American troops while replacing them with South Vietnamese troops	12
9642885141	Domino Theory	If one Nation falls to Communism other countries in close proximity will fall.	13
9642885142	War Powers Act	America can promise troops to major military operations in foreign countries. Attempt to resolve the problem caused by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	14
9642885143	Credibility Gap	What America sees on TV and what was actually happening or they were being told what is going on in Vietnam.	15
9642885144	1968 Democratic Convention	Chicago Anti-war protesters clash/fight police	16
9642885146	Hippies	Part of the counterculture. Middle Class + White. upset with the way that society was run and how it was dealing with the problems of the time.	17
9642885147	Kent State	Protest here over the invasion of Cambodia. National Guard troops fired at protesters killing 4 of them.	18
9642885148	Pentagon Papers	Published in 1971. Exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.	19
9642885149	Results of Vietnam War	US reluctant to intervene countries problems, MIAs and POWs, Americans saw war as a defeat. , $150 billion spent on war	20
9642885150	April 1975	South Vietnam's government falls, ending the long years of the war.	21
9642885151	Outcome of the War	Strongly effected by public opinion.	22
9642885152	Battle of Dien Bien Phu	French lose French Indochina War and withdraw from Vietnam	23
9642885153	S Vietnam Monk purpose of Self-Immolation	Protest discrimination against Buddhists	24
9642885154	Treatment of Vietnam Veterans returning to USA	Shunned or ignored by the public	25
9642885155	Martin Luther King's issue with Vietnam War	He believed it was unfair that they were fighting for a country that threatened them unfairly at home.	26
9642885156	Impact of War on Voting	Lowered the voting age from 21-18 (since 18 yr olds can be drafted)	27
9642885157	Geneva Accords	Divided Vietnam into North and South at the 17th Parallel	28
9642885158	Media after Tet Offensive	Began to openly criticize the war	29
9642885159	Why did the US step in when the French left Vietnam?	To protect the Pro-Westerngovernment in the South	30
9642885160	Jim Crow Laws	segregation laws	31
9642885161	Sharecropping	economic slavery, endless cycle of debt and poverty	32
9642885162	Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, KS	1954, Unanimous decision to overturn; "separate, but equal"-"inherently unequal", "with all deliberate speed", Precedent, The Warren Court	33
9642885163	Thurgood Marshall	lawyer in the Brown vs Board of Education; first non-white man in the Supreme Court	34
9642885164	"White Flight"	whites flee to suburban area as minorities move into inner cities	35
9642885165	Emmett Till	14 year old boy visiting his cousins in MS from Chicago; beaten, mutilated, and shot for saying "Bye Baby" to white lady-murders found not guilty in a short trial; murders latter admitted guilt	36
9642885166	Impact of Television	a new consumer product broadened the impact of the civil rights movement	37
9642885167	Montgomery Bus Boycott	381 day bus boycott that started in Montgomery, AL and spread across the country	38
9642885168	Sit-In movement (Nashville)	College students would sit at the white only counters and nonviolently protest, started in Feb., 1960 in Greensboro, NC, movement spreads all across the country	39
9642885169	Freedom Rides	1961-tested their rights of non-segregated interstate travel, traveling from Washington DC through the deep South, nearly beaten to death/KKK fire bombed buses	40
9642885170	Ole Miss (James Meredith)	decorated US army veteran wanted to attend Ole Miss, riots in the streets, US Marshals came to protest James Meredith; bombs& mobs as he arrives in Oxford, 35 Marshals shot, 2 people died	41
9642885171	March on Washington	March For Jobs & Freedom Wed. Aug. 28th, 300 thousand people, MLK gives I had a dream speech	42
9642885172	24th Amendment	prohibited Congress & the states(TX, AL, VA, MS, AR) from instituting poll taxes	43
9642885173	Civil Rights Act of 1964	prohibited racial segregation/discrimination in public accommodations	44
9642885174	Voting Rights Act of 1965	prohibited use literacy test for voter registration	45
9642885175	poll taxes; literacy texts	used to prevent black people from being able to vote	46
9642885176	Freedom Summer	civil rights groups went down to Mississippi to register black voters; three activists murdered: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Michael Schwerner	47
9642885177	Malcolm X	"By any means necessary" promoted self defense, converted to the Islamic faith in prison assassinated in February, 1965	48
9642885178	March from Selma to Montgomery	for voting rights, register black voters, The Mississippi Summer Project; MS blackest state, but only 4% were registered	49
9642885179	Black Panthers	social movement group started in 1966; equality, self defense, community based, educated/feed children	50