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The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?

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Fidel Castro

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The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

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Domino Theory

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What resolution passed that gave Lyndon Johnson broad powers to defend South Vietnam from communism?

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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In Brown V. BOE, what did the court rule about school segregation?

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That it was unconstitutional.

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This law made it illegal to prevent citizens from voting because of their race or ethnicity.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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What events prompted Dr. King to write Letter from a Birmingham Jail?

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Responding to a letter asking him to "wait" for equality.

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Cesar Chavez helped which group of people to be treated better?

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Migrant workers

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Names of the Great Society Programs that provide health insurance to the elderly and covers low income people with medical needs?

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Medicare and Medicaid

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Who was the US president who signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act into law?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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The communists fighting the US in the Vietnam Conflict were called the

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Viet Cong