THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The school supported the students.
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They suspended the students.
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School officials made extras so other students could participate.
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The students were arrested without trial.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from 1969 that cemented students’ rights to free speech in public schools. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-2: -At a public school in Des Moines, Iowa, students planned to wear black armbands at school as a silent protest against the Vietnam War.
Detailed explanation-3: -How would you describe these reactions to the Tinker’s decision to wear armbands? The reactions to the students wearing the armbands were too harsh, since many others at the time opposed the war also.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yes. The Supreme Court ruled that the armbands were a form of symbolic speech, which is protected by the First Amendment, and therefore the school had violated the students’ First Amendment rights.