Required changes in TX school finance increasing funding for poorer school districts.

Demanded equal opportunities and repayment for past oppression, claimed the right to carry weapons to protect black neighborhoods.

Fear that if one Southeast Asian country were to fall to communism many others would follow.

Required companies to pay women the same wages as men for the same work.

Republican candidate for President in 1964, helped to revive conservatism at a time when most people were concerned about the direction of the country.

Mexican Americans should have the same rights/responsibilities, like serving on juries.

Ruled that women could end pregnancy (during first three months) based on constitutional right to privacy

Vietcong launched a massive attack on South Vietnamese cities on the Chinese New Year.

Group of young writers that rebelled against the conformity of the 50’s, the materialism of the time.

Segregation of children of a group was illegal without a special state law requiring it.

Passed by Congress giving President Johnson the authority to do whatever he deemed necessary in Southeast Asia.

Lowered to voting age in all states to 18 yrs.

Democrat, elected President in 1960.

Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1981 for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War.

Mexican-American artists painted murals celebrating their history and cultural heritage.

Ruled that segregation of Mexican-American children was illegal in Texas.

Failed invasion of Cuba by US backed rebels and supported by President Kennedy.

In her book The Feminine Mystique she argued that women were just as capable as men and such be be able to compete for the same jobs.

President Kennedy’s Vice President, will become President after President Kennedy is assassinated in November 1963.

The American public began to doubt and dispute the facts being revealed by government officials about the war in Vietnam.

The Nixon policy of gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam and returning control of the country back to the Vietnamese.

Passed in 1972 which promoted gender equality by guaranteeing girls in school the same opportunities as boys.

President Nixon’s term used to describe the majority of Americans who continued to support the war in Vietnam but did not voice their opinion.

Sought to achieve economic and social equality for women.

President Kennedy discovered that Soviet made missiles were being place in Cuba.

Millions of young people were actively protesting the US involvement in Vietnam.

Communists Vietcong begin guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam in an attempt to unified North and South Vietnam; American send US soldiers to support South Vietnamese democracy.

Saigon was overtaken by communists North Vietnamese in April 1975 after the US had withdrawn it’s soldiers.

First American astronaut to orbit the earth in 1962.

National Organization of Women became the chief voice of the women’s movement.