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Down: 1) applied to transfer to the University of Mississippi. the governor of Mississippi, blocked his path even though Meredith had a court order directing the university to register him. President Kennedy dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith to the campus. an angry white mob attacked the campus, and a fullscale riot erupted. By morning, 160 marshals had been wounded. Reluctantly Kennedy ordered the army to send several thousand troops to the campus. For the rest of the year, Meredith attended classes at the University of Mississippi under federal guard. He graduated the following August.2) he was a famous leader during the nationalist movement. Vietnamese leader of the nationalist and communist movement and first president of North Vietnam (1954-1969) His army won the French Indochina War (1946-1954) and he later led North Vietnam Communists to defeat the U.S. supported government of South Vietnam.3) 200,000 Americans marched for support against segregation. MLK realized that President Kennedy would have a hard time getting his Civil Rights Act thru congress - so he coordinated the March on Washington. This is where he gave the "I have a dream" speech.4) intended to protect the rights of African Americans to vote.5) Founded by JFK in 1961. Its purpose was to help developing nations fight poverty by sending young americans there to perform humanitarian servies. Still exists today. Did things such as build hospitals, sewage systems, schools, etc.6) on May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard soldiers, armed with tear gas and rifles, fired on demonstrators without an order to do so. The soldiers killed four students and wounded at least nine others.9) The act of trying to stop segregation and gain African American rights.10) The war had cost the nation over $170 billion in direct costs and much more in indirect economic expenses. it had resulted in the deaths of approximately 58,000 young Americans and the injury of more than 300,000. In Vietnam, around one million North and South Vietnamese soldiers died in the conflict, as did countless civilians. Even after they returned home from fighting, some American veterans, as in other wars, found it hard to escape the war’s psychological impact. 13) Gave the federal government power to provent racial discrimination and made it illegal in public places. It granted all citizens equal access to facilities, making segregation illegal in most places, and prohibiting job discrimination.16) at My Lai, 200 vietnamese citizens were murdered. In November 1969, the media reported that in the spring of 1968, an American platoon under the command of Lieutenant William Calley had massacred possibly more than 200 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the hamlet of My Lai. Most of the victims were old men, women, and children. Calley eventually went to prison for his role in the killings. Across: 7) the guerrilla army of the communist faction of Vietnam. Also known as the National Liberation Front. Ho Chi Minh and his followers began an armed struggle to reunify the nation. They organized a new guerrilla army, which became known as the Vietcong.8) nationalists group. an adherent of the Vietnamese Communist movement from 1941 to 1951 . 11) Linda Brown,who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas, because of her race. She was told to attend an all-black school across town. With the help of the NAACP, her parents then sued the Topeka school board. The supreme court rules that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.12) School board won a court order to admit 9 African American students to Central High, a school with 2,000 white students. The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, ordered troops from the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine African American students from entering the school. President Eisenhower’s patience to the breaking point. Federal authority had to be upheld. He immediately ordered the U.S. Army to send troops to Little Rock. By nightfall 1,000 soldiers of the elite 101st Airborne Division had arrived. By 5:00 A.M. the troops had encircled the school, bayonets ready. A few hours later, the nine African American students arrived in an army station wagon, and they walked into the The next day, as the National Guard troops surrounded the school, an angry white mob joined the troops to protest the integration plan and to intimidate the African American students trying to register.14) Killed by a bullet inTexas by Lee Harvey Oswald. 15) people that protest for no war17) A rumor that american spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long range missiles in Cuba.18) 4 African American students went to Woolworth demanding to be served at an all-white counter. The following day, 29 African American students arrived at Woolworths determined to sit at the counter until served. By the end of the week, there were 300. Within two months, sit-ins had spread to 54 cities in 9 states. Sit-ins were staged at segregated stores, restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, and swimming pools. By 1961 sit-ins had been held in more than 100 cities.19) 26 year old pastor and civil rights leader. African American leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to run the boycott of the public buses after Rosa Parks was denied a seat. They negotiated with city leaders for an end to segregation. They elected MLK, Jr. as their leader.20) authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices such as literacy tests in counties where less than half of all adults had been allowed to vote. The results were dramatic. By the end of the year, almost 250,000 African Americans had registered as new voters. The number of African American elected officials in the South also increased, from about 100 in 1965 to more than 5,000 in 1990. The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 marked a turning point in the civil rights movement.21) War between north Korea (the nationalists) and Vietnam (non-nationalists). began in the mid-1950s when American officials decided to support the government of of South Vietnam in its struggle against North Vietnam. After Ngo Dinh Diem refused to hold national elections.
 

 

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