Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War

Question 1 of 18

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In what year was the Brown vs Topeka case?

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1954
1973
1964
1955

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Question 2 of 18

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

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Governor Orval Fawbus places the National Guard in front of the school to prevent the students from entering
Eisenhower demands the removal of the guard
Eisenhower sends the US military in to defuse the situation and enforce the federal law
The students had been recruited by Daisy Gaston Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP
All of the above

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Question 3 of 18

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Emmett Till was a ( 14, 15, 13 )-year-old boy from Chicago. whilst visiting family in ( South Carolina, Memphis, Mississippi ) in ( 1956, 1957, 1953 ), he was believed to have made a pass at a white woman behind the counter at a ( store, resteraunt, bank ). 4 days later, the woman's husband and his ( brother, brother-in-law, cousin ) 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 ( 46, 23, 67 ) minutes, with the defendants found ( guilty, innocent, guilty of manslaughter, not murder ). Emmett's mother had an open casket funeral to show the press what the men had done to her son

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Question 4 of 18

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

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True
False

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Question 5 of 18

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

Select one or more of the following:

Increase in Black Americans who registered to vote
Schools were now integrated
Civil Rights movement was the country's main concern
Buses across the USA were integrated
Corruption eliminated in the south

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Question 6 of 18

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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 ( April 3rd, February 19th, March 10th ), 1963. To disperse the protestors, Conner used ( gunfire, officers armed with batons, high-pressure hoses ) and high-pressure water hoses. Over 2,000 people were arrested, ( 250, 1,300, 1,800 ) of which were children. Kennedy ordered de-segregation within ( 2 months, 6 months, 3 weeks ), along with the passing of a ( Prejudiced Brutality, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights ) Act to force de-segregation.

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Question 7 of 18

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

Select one or more of the following:

Discrimination on the basis of ONLY race
Discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, nationality OR origin
The taxing of polls to make voting more difficult for minorities
Segregation of public places
Segregation of schools
The Right to vote

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Question 8 of 18

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❌ was a massive protest march that occurred in August ❌, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the ❌ in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for ❌, 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.

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The March from Selma to Montgomery

The March on Washington

The Greensboro Sit-Ins

1963

1965

1962

Whitehouse

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument

Rights and Liberty

Power and Equality

Jobs and Freedom

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Question 9 of 18

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Why did the USA lose Vietnam?

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North Vietnam had monetary aid from China and the USSR, who both sent over $3bn from 1954 and 1957. However, in the USA there was significant opposition to the war, leading to spending limits being set by Congress in '71
The USA were fighting in a foreign landscape in a strange country, giving the VC an advantage
The Americans had to use interpreters to speak to people, nit understanding the cultural importance in saying in your ancestor's home or that the Vietnamese could not read bomb warning leaflets
In Vietnam, the entire country wanted a unified Vietnam and was in support of the war. In America, opposition to the war grew every day
The VC used guerilla fighting techniques, using the jungle landscape to their advantage. That meant that the USA had trouble winning with brute force and weaponry alone
All of these reasons

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Question 10 of 18

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On March 16th, 1968, a group of American soldiers were ordered to go into the village of My Lai and kill ❌, as intelligence suggested that the VC were hiding there. Within 4 hours, ❌ people were killed. ❌ were Vietcong members. Lieutenant Calley was arrested, as he had shot 109 people in a ditch. He was charged with 22 counts of ❌ and sentenced to 20 years in prison, of which he served ❌.

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'everyone and everything'

'everyone but women and children'

'every bit of livestock they have'

'everything suspicious'

250

890

180

350

20

30

60

None

the entire sentence

10

4

16

manslaughter

crimes against humanity

murder

homicide

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Question 11 of 18

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Which of these were factors of Operation Phoenix?

Select one or more of the following:

Set up in 1968
Set up by the CIA
Set up by the FBI
Aim was to arrest 3,000 VietCong members each month
Aim was to arrest 1,000 Vietcong members each month
Used torture to get information
Used bribery to get information
Arrested 28,000 in the end
Extremely successful- most were Vietcong
A huge failure- the majority were innocent people

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Question 12 of 18

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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 ( guerilla, head-on, political ) warfare against them in the first Indochina War that ended in the ( Stalemate, French Victory, Vietnamese Victory ) at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. An agreement was signed at ( Rome, Geneva, Paris ) on July 21, 1954, providing for a temporary division of the country, between a communist-dominated north and a ( U.S., French, UN )-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.

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Question 13 of 18

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

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True
False

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Question 14 of 18

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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 ❌ before finally repelling the communist assault. The Tet Offensive played an important role in ❌ 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 ❌ 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 ❌. 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. ❌ made clear to the American public that an overall victory in Vietnam was ❌.

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Took little time to prepare

Suffered little damages

sustained heavy losses

strengthening

weakening

sustaining

not as weak

just as weak

just as desperate

military

President

media

inevitable

easy

not imminent

both sides claimed victory

The US claimed victory, while the VC had

The VC claimed victory, while the US had

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Question 15 of 18

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In what became famous as the “Hard Hat Riot,” about 200 union workers, mostly ( construction workers, janitors, bus drivers ), attacked anti-Vietnam War protesters in lower Manhattan, NYC, on this day. Over ( 45, 70, 50 ) people were injured, including four police officers.
The original anti-Vietnam War protest, involving about 1,000 ( Wall Street workers, journalists, high school and college students ) began at about 7:30 in the morning at the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets. The union workers attacked around noon. Most carried ( guns, American flags, pepper spray ) 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 ( South Vietnam, Cambodia, China ), and the shooting and killing of four people by Ohio National Guard officers at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

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Quiz on Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War, created by Catherine Gannon on 25/02/2018.

Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War

Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement and The Vietnam War

Question 1 of 18

In what year was the Brown vs Topeka case?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 18

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

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 18

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Explanation

Question 4 of 18

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

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 18

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

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 18

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Question 7 of 18

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

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Question 8 of 18

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Question 9 of 18

Why did the USA lose Vietnam?

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Question 10 of 18

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Question 11 of 18

Which of these were factors of Operation Phoenix?

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Question 12 of 18

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Question 13 of 18

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

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Question 14 of 18

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Question 15 of 18

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Question 16 of 18

What was Agent Orange?

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Question 17 of 18

What were the properties of Napalm?

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Question 18 of 18

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

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