Mcgaugh history test 7 Flashcards

Agent orange

Stripped leaves from trees

Barnett

Blocked Merideths enrollment in Ole Miss

Central high

9 black students were to be admitted to this school in Little Rock,
Arkansas but were prevented by national guard

Dien bien phu

French occupied town surrounded by Vietminh force and bombed. Battle
convinced french to withdraw from Vietnam

EEOC

Equal employment opportunity commision
- banned job discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or nationality

Ford

Became president in 1974 after nixon resigned

Geneva Accord

Temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel

Gulf of tonkin resolution

Authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel any
armed attack against the forces of the U.S and to prevent any further aggression

Hamer

Former sharecropper from MS
evicted from farm after registering to vote
later arrested and beaten for trying to register others
eventually organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Ho Chi Minh Trail

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Hue

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J.E. Ray

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JFK

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Jim crow

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Kent state

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Kissinger

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LBJ

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Marshall

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James merideth

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My Lai Massacre

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Napalm

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Ngo Dihn Diem

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Nixon

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Nixon

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Parks

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Philadelphia

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Plessy V. Ferguson

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Saigon

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Sirhan B Sirhan

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Tet Offensive

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Vietcong

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Wallace

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Westmoreland

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