Period 8 U.S History

Rosa

________ parks- arrested for refusing to give up her seat.

NAACP

________- used the courts to pursue civil rights improvements.

Soviet Premier Khrushchev

1961- ________ built the Berlin Wall to stop East Berliners from fleeing to the West.

Dr Martin Luther king

________ led the boycott of all buses.

1959

________- Fidel Castro overthrew the American friendly dictator and established communism.

SNCC

________- Student non violent coordinating committee started in 1960 to fight for equal treatment in public places and in voting.

Hippies

________ fought "the establishment "through nonconformity.

Betty Friedan

________ wrote the Feminine Mystique.

SCLC

________- Southern Christian Leadership conference, started by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 to mobilize black churches.

Republican Richard Nixon

________ won the election.

Vietcong

The ________- South Vietnamese who supported communism Gulf of Tonkin.

Gerald Ford

________ was defeated in the 1976 election by Jimmy Carter Achievements.

U.S

The ________ sabotaged reunification and put Ngo Dinh Diem in charge of South Vietnam.

Rep Dwight D Eisenhower

________ won the 1952 election.