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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