U.S media unit test 2

Fidel Castro

communist leader in the Cuban Revolution; led Cuba for decades)

 Eisenhower

 (WW2 general, US president during Korean War)

 JFK

(US president during Cuban Missile Crisis and first part of Vietnam War; often pursued a "middle path" that avoided sending in troops)

  Johnson

signed Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law; escalated US involvement in Vietnam after Gulf of Tonkin incident; lied to Americans about the war)

, Nixon

(lied about war; ended Vietnam War),Khrushchev (Russian leader during Cuban Missile Crisis) 

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

After Rosa Park, Black folks in Montgomery Alabama boycotted the busses in an effort to desegregate them. Their efforts were eventually effective.

• Freedom Rides

interracial civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern U.S. in 1961 to challenge the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that banned segregated public transportation

• Greensboro Sit-In

Sit-ins challenged segregation in restaurants in the south

• Little Rock 9

Black students who bravely integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957

• March on Washington

Large civil rights protest where MLK gave his famous I have a dream speech

• Bloody Sunday

Civil rights march in Selma where protesters were killed by the police

• Bay of Pigs

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely and directly financed by the U.S. government.

Cuban Missile Crisis

a 13-day standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union, representing the closest the superpowers came to nuclear war. After the Soviets secretly installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, President Kennedy imposed a naval quarantine (blockade) rather than a direct attack. The crisis ended when Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the weapons in exchange for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba and a secret agreement to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey

Vietnam war

Jim Crow

Oppressive laws set up in the American south that restricted Black Americans and violated their rights as citizens.

Segregation

The segregation of Black and white Americans under Plessy vs Ferguson “separate but equal”

Integration

Opposite of segregation; happened through the civil rights movement

Non-violence

The idea that violent protest only continued the negative cycles. MLK was an advocate for non-violence.

• Brown v. Board of Education

a court decision that integrated schools in America during the civil rights movement

• Loving v Virginia

court case that legalized interracial marriage during the civil rights movement in America

• 1964 Civil Rights Act

he Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, is a landmark law that officially ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

1965 voting rights act

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) is a landmark piece of federal legislation designed to enforce the 15th Amendment, outlawing discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests and poll taxes