History Final   The racial violence during the years of the Civil Rights Movement caused white Americans to fear and condemn The most vocal person to break with the traditional civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr

1. The racial violence during the years of the Civil Rights Movement caused white Americans to fear and condemn

the Black Power Movement

2. The most vocal person to break with the traditional civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., was

Malcolm X.

3. The significance of the Tet Offensive, the surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese cities, was that

many Americans, including prominent politicians and members of the media, began to publicly state their belief that America could not win the war in Vietnam.

4. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave President Johnson specific permission to

do whatever was necessary to take care of the situation in South Vietnam.

5. Johnson ran for election in 1964 advocating a "mandate for change," which he dubbed the

Great Society.

6. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to

All of these were reasons for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

7. The person most responsible for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was

Lyndon b. Johnson.

8. As far as the public knows at this time, the first successful U.S.-backed coup to remove the leader of another country and replace him with one backed by America, took place in

Vietnam.

9. John F. Kennedy's greatest disaster as president was

the failed Bay of Pigs operation to try to liberate Cuba.

10. In the court case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that

separate educational facilities for black and white students were by nature unequal and thus violated the "separate but equal" clause of Plessy v. Ferguson.