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Historical Events and Civil Rights Movements Descriptions

Learn about significant events and movements in history such as the Vietnam War, Civil Rights struggles, and pivotal court cases.

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Historical Events and Civil Rights Movements Descriptions

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  1. Second Semester Final

  2. Question 1 - 10 • Why was Diem’s South Vietnamese government so unpopular (resulting in a monk burning himself)?

  3. Answer 1 – 10 • Diem was a Catholic who discriminated against his country’s Buddhist majority

  4. Question 1 - 20 • Name some characteristics of the “counter-culture” movement?

  5. Answer 1 – 20 • Long hair, peace signs and recycle clothes • Rejection of traditional beliefs • Rock’n’Roll music

  6. Question 1 - 30 • With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect?

  7. Answer 1 – 30 • Handed its War Powers to the President

  8. Question 1 - 40 • In May 1989, Chinese students and workers gathered at Tiananmen Square to hold demonstrations for?

  9. Answer 1 – 40 • Democratic reforms

  10. Question 1 - 50 • What two events convinced Truman to help France in Vietnam even though we opposed colonialism?

  11. Answer 1 – 50 • The fall of China to communism and the Korean War

  12. Question 2 - 10 • President Ronald Reagan believed that massive Soviet defense spending would?

  13. Answer 2 – 10 • Cause the Communist system to collapse

  14. Question 2 - 20 • As the fighting began between the Vietcong and South Vietnamese army, President Eisenhower first tried to help South Vietnam by?

  15. Answer 2 – 20 • Sending military advisors

  16. Question 2 - 30 • The intended purpose of Agent Orange was to?

  17. Answer 2 – 30 • Destroy the thick jungles where the Vietcong could hide

  18. Question 2 - 40 • The fall of the “Berlin Wall” in November of 1989 symbolized?

  19. Answer 2 – 40 • The reuniting of Germany into one country • The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe • The end of the Cold War

  20. Question 2 - 50 • The Vietnam War had what impact on Americans/America?

  21. Answer 2 – 50 • Cost Americans billions of dollars to fight • Increased distrust of the U.S. government by Americans • Post traumatic stress disorder problems for returning soldiers

  22. Question 3 - 10 • In response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, African Americans?

  23. Answer 3 – 10 • Organized a bus boycott

  24. Question 3 - 20 • In the Supreme Court case “Brown vs. Board of Education”, the court ruled that school segregation denied African Americans the “equal protection” promised by the 14th amendment because it?

  25. Answer 3 – 20 • Caused psychological damage to African American students

  26. Question 3 - 30 • The ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 had established?

  27. Answer 3 – 30 • The separate-but-equal doctrine

  28. Question 3 - 40 • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through?

  29. Answer 3 – 40 • Non-violent passive resistance

  30. Question 3 - 50 • The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to?

  31. Answer 3 – 50 • Desegregate bus travel

  32. Question 4 - 10 • The Civil rights Act of 1964 came up short of civil rights goals because it did little to?

  33. Answer 4 – 10 • Secure voting rights for African Americans

  34. Question 4 - 20 • In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting rights Act of 1965 authorized the Attorney General to?

  35. Answer 4 – 20 • Send federal examiners to register qualified voters

  36. Question 4 - 30 • After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?

  37. Answer 4 – 30 • It was possible for whites and blacks to live together peacefully

  38. Question 4 - 40 • Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama for a protest march because?

  39. Answer 4 – 40 • African Americans made up the majority of the population but very few (3%) were registered voters

  40. Question 4 - 50 • What group urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights?

  41. Answer 4 – 50 • Blank Panthers

  42. Question 5 - 10 • In the 1978 affirmative action case, University of California Regents V. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that?

  43. Answer 5 – 10 • Universities could not make race the only factor considered for acceptance

  44. Question 5 - 20 • With this, Congress outlawed all discriminatory devices in voting, including literacy tests, in places where less than ½ the adults had been able to vote?

  45. Answer 5 – 20 • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  46. Question 5 - 30 • City where brutal violence used against demonstrators led to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being jailed (during which time he wrote his famous letter) and prompted Kennedy to prepare a new civil rights bill?

  47. Answer 5 – 30 • Birmingham, Alabama

  48. Question 5 - 40 • Jim Crow law can be defined as?

  49. Answer 5 – 40 • Laws used to enforce segregation of African Americans and prevent them from exercising their rights

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