Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War

In what year was the Brown vs Topeka case?

Which of these were factors in the Little Rock Nine incident of 1957?

Emmett Till was a [blank_start]14[blank_end]-year-old boy from Chicago. whilst visiting family in [blank_start]Mississippi[blank_end] in [blank_start]1956[blank_end], he was believed to have made a pass at a white woman behind the counter at a [blank_start]store[blank_end]. 4 days later, the woman's husband and his [blank_start]brother-in-law[blank_end] kidnapped Emmett. They Emmett carry a 75-pound fan to a barn and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. The trial lasted [blank_start]67[blank_end] minutes, with the defendants found [blank_start]innocent[blank_end]. Emmett's mother had an open casket funeral to show the press what the men had done to her son

Blacks made up 75% of riders on public transport, which was why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was so impactful

In which ways had progress been made in the Civil Rights' Movement since the Brown vs Board case? Check all that apply

The city of Birmingham, Alabama was targeted by the Civil Rights Movement because the Chief of Police was Bull Conner, a known racist. The protests started on [blank_start]April 3rd[blank_end], 1963. To disperse the protestors, Conner used [blank_start]attack dogs[blank_end] and high-pressure water hoses. Over 2,000 people were arrested, [blank_start]1,300[blank_end] of which were children. Kennedy ordered de-segregation within [blank_start]90 days[blank_end], along with the passing of a [blank_start]Civil Rights[blank_end] Act to force de-segregation.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw? Check all that apply.

[blank_start]The March on Washington[blank_end] was a massive protest march that occurred in August [blank_start]1963[blank_end], when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the [blank_start]Lincoln Memorial[blank_end] in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for [blank_start]Jobs and Freedom[blank_end], the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.

Why did the USA lose Vietnam?

On March 16th, 1968, a group of American soldiers were ordered to go into the village of My Lai and kill [blank_start]'everyone and everything'[blank_end], as intelligence suggested that the VC were hiding there. Within 4 hours, [blank_start]350[blank_end] people were killed. [blank_start]None[blank_end] were Vietcong members. Lieutenant Calley was arrested, as he had shot 109 people in a ditch. He was charged with 22 counts of [blank_start]murder[blank_end] and sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which he served [blank_start]4[blank_end].

Which of these were factors of Operation Phoenix?

Vietnam was gradually conquered by the French, who controlled it. Vietnamese rule did not return to the country until Sept. 2, 1945, when Ho Chi Minh proclaimed its independence. From 1946 to 1954, the French opposed independence, and Ho Chi Minh led [blank_start]guerrilla[blank_end] warfare against them in the first Indochina War that ended in the [blank_start]Vietnamese victory[blank_end] at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. An agreement was signed at [blank_start]Geneva[blank_end] on July 21, 1954, providing for a temporary division of the country, between a communist-dominated north and a [blank_start]U.S.[blank_end]-supported south. Activities of pro-communist rebels in South Vietnam led to heavy U.S. intervention in the mid-1960s and the Second Indochina War, or Vietnam War, which caused great destruction and loss of life.

The Us initially placed 500,000 troops in Vietnam, when they entered in 1965

In late January 1968, during the “Tet” holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries [blank_start]sustained heavy losses[blank_end] before finally repelling the communist assault. The Tet Offensive played an important role in [blank_start]weakening[blank_end] U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. The strikes on the major cities of Huế and Saigon had a strong psychological impact, as they showed that the NLF troops were [blank_start]not as weak[blank_end] as the Johnson Administration had previously claimed. The NLF even managed to breach the outer walls of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. At the end of the Tet Offensive, both sides had endured losses, and [blank_start]both sides claimed victory[blank_end]. The U.S. and South Vietnamese military response almost completely eliminated the NLF forces and regained all of the lost territories. At the same time, the vivid reporting on the Tet Offensive by the U.S. [blank_start]media[blank_end] made clear to the American public that an overall victory in Vietnam was [blank_start]not imminent[blank_end].

In what became famous as the “Hard Hat Riot,” about 200 union workers, mostly [blank_start]construction workers[blank_end], attacked anti-Vietnam War protesters in lower Manhattan, NYC, on this day. Over [blank_start]70[blank_end] people were injured, including four police officers. The original anti-Vietnam War protest, involving about 1,000 [blank_start]high school and college students[blank_end] began at about 7:30 in the morning at the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets. The union workers attacked around noon. Most carried [blank_start]American flags[blank_end] and carried signs reading “America, Love “It or Leave It,” and other pro-Vietnam War and pro-America slogans. The anti-war protests were part of the national wave of protests following President Richard Nixon’s announcement that he had ordered the invasion of [blank_start]Cambodia[blank_end], and the shooting and killing of four people by Ohio National Guard officers at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

What was Agent Orange?

What were the properties of Napalm?

What was the year that all the US troops finally removed from Vietnam?