Chapter 10 part 4
One reason John F. Kennedy's assassination deeply affected people was because he
had represented a hope for a better future.
President Johnson's success in passing many of former President Kennedy's programs was due in part to
his experience and skill as a politician.
The organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom were
trying to build support for the civil rights movement.
The success of sit-ins throughout the South led to the formation of the
SNCC.
James Earl Ray
assassinated Martin Luther King
The doves were
people who opposed the Vietnam War.
Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty" in America began with the passage of
the Economic Opportunity Act.
The Berlin Wall was constructed so
East Germans could no longer escape to freedom.
The hawks were
people who supported the Vietnam War.
Lyndon B. Johnson's political views were most similliar to
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention, protesters demanded
an end to the war in Vietnam.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
banned discrimination in employment and public housing.
Black Power was a movement that
called for African Americans to rely on themselves to achieve change.
The ground war in Vietnam was so difficult to fight because
civilians often joined the Vietcong and US soldiers could not identify the enemy.
Public universities in Mississippi and Alabama were only integrated after
federal courts ordered states to integrate their higher education facilities.