USH9 Time of Change

Of the four post-war presidents, Eisenhower was the only Democrat.

The governor of Arkansas supported the integration of Little Rock High School.

Early television promoted the idea that all people were equal regardless of gender or skin color.

Rock and roll music created a generation gap between teenagers and their parents.

The Viet Cong were members of the North Vietnamese Army and wore uniforms.

Almost all young people used drugs in the late 1960s.

Many rock musicians in the 60s used their music to spread their values.

Truman's program of reform was called the Great Society.

The law creating the expressway system was passed while Eisenhower was president.

One lesson of the Vietnam war is that the US should try to send as few soldier as possible into a war.

When he was shot, Kennedy's head went forward and to the right.

President Eisenhower used the National Guard to get the Black students into Little Rock High School.

For the Sixties counter culture, wild clothing was a way to rebel.

The Warren Commission said the Kennedy assassination was the work of one man.

When Black college students sat at lunch counters in Nashville, the people who beat them were arrested.

Expressways allowed people to move out of the cities to live in suburbs.

Because of jet engines, people began to live and vacation farther from the places they were born.

Lee Harvey Oswald is in jail today.

Hippies believed that sex should only be enjoyed within the institution of marriage.

Black students at Little Rock High School were not harassed in any way.

The post war president that got the most done was Kennedy.

The United States became involved in Vietnam because the country was a major trade partner of the US.

Boycotts were an effective method of protest during the Civil Rights Movement.

Rock and Roll music was created originally by black artists.

Civil Disobedience is the practice of secretly breaking laws.

Because of jet engines, air travel became more expensive.

The growth of suburbs made cities wealthier and more diverse

Historical events become less clear as time goes by.

Malcolm X believed Black people should pursue their rights "by any means necessary."