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Cold WarCold War CivilCivilRightsRights

VietnamVietnamCold WarCivil

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This 1962 face-off brought the U.S. and USSR to the

brink of nuclear war.

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What is the Cuban Missile Cuban Missile

CrisisCrisis?

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This was Khrushchev’s

solution to the 1961 standoff in Berlin.

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What is the Berlin WallBerlin Wall?

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This geopolitical policy, inherited from the

Eisenhower administration,

brought the U.S. into the Vietnam conflict.

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What is the domino theorydomino theory?

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This botched military

operation in 1961 led to JFK’s

distrust of the CIA.

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What is the Bay Bay of Pigs of Pigs

InvasionInvasion?

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Signed in 1963 with the Soviets, JFK

considered this the greatest

achievement of his presidency.

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What is the Nuclear Test Nuclear Test Ban TreatyBan Treaty?

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Title VII of this landmark law

forbade discrimination based

on race, religion, gender, or national

origin.

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What is the Civil Civil Rights Act of Rights Act of

19641964?

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This landmark law guaranteed the

franchise for virtually all blacks

in the South.

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What is the Voting Rights Voting Rights Act of 1965Act of 1965?

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In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. chose this southern city as his

target since it was the most hardcore “Jim

Crow” city in the country.

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What is Birmingham, Birmingham,

AlabamaAlabama?

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

organized these in 1961 to ensure

desegregation of interstate

transportation.

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What are the Freedom RidesFreedom Rides?

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This Air Force veteran challenged the

Kennedy administration to

enforce his admission into the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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Who is James James MeredithMeredith?

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This shocking 1968 military event signaled

the beginning of the end of U.S.

involvement in Vietnam.

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What is the Tet Tet Offensive?Offensive?

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An alleged “unprovoked” attack on U.S. ships off the coast of Vietnam in

1964 resulted in Congress issuing this,

at the behest of President Johnson.

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What is the Gulf Gulf of Tonkin of Tonkin

Resolution?Resolution?

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Secretary of State Robert McNamara

developed this gradualist strategy in

hopes of thwarting Vietnamese communists.

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What is escalationescalation?

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This northern Vietnamese leader led

the fight against French imperialism in

the 1950s and U.S. intervention in the

50s and 60s.

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Who is Ho Chi Ho Chi MinhMinh?

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The U.S. supported this corrupt South Vietnamese leader

until his assassination in

1963.

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Who is Ngo Ngo Dinh DiemDinh Diem?

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This landmark 1965 program established guaranteed health

care for the elderly.

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What is MedicareMedicare?

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President Johnson waged a war on this, in

hopes of increasing economic opportunity and a higher overall standard of living.

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What is povertypoverty?

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LBJ supported the creation of this program that

provided pre-school for children in poor

families.

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What is Head Head StartStart?

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To increase the public’s access to high culture and

educational programming, the

Great Society established this media network.

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What is the Public Public

Broadcasting Broadcasting System (PBS)System (PBS)?

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To revitalize inner cities Johnson created this new department,

headed by the first African American cabinet member,

Robert C. Weaver.

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What is Department of Department of Housing and Housing and

Urban Urban Development Development

(HUD)(HUD)?

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This new pharmaceutical

innovation resulted in a “sexual

revolution” in the 1960s.

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What is the birth control birth control

pillpill?

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Betty Friedan established this

organization that spearheaded the women’s rights

movement of the 60s and 70s.

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What is the National National

Organization for Organization for Women (NOW)Women (NOW)?

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Betty Friedan published this

landmark book in 1962 that launched the women’s rights

movement.

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What is The The Feminine Feminine MystiqueMystique?

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This amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

established equal access to sports

programs for girls and college females.

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What is Title IXTitle IX?

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This constitutional amendment finally passed Congress in 1972, but was not

ratified by the states and died in the early

80s.

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What is the Equal Rights Equal Rights Amendment Amendment

(ERA)(ERA)?

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This famous NAACP lawyer became the

first African American appointed to the Supreme Court.

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Who is the Thurgood Thurgood MarshallMarshall?

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This ad hoc committee concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had

acted alone in assassinating President

Kennedy.

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What is the Warren Warren

CommissionCommission?

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This monumental law removed quotas

barring the influx of peoples from certain parts of the world.

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What is the Immigration Immigration Act of 1965?Act of 1965?

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This governor stood symbolically in the

University of Alabama admissions doorway in

1962 in protest of integration.

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Who is George George Wallace?Wallace?

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This constitutional amendment

outlawed poll taxes.

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What is the 2424thth AmendmentAmendment?

By Any Means

Necessary

TheCounterCulture

1960sPolitics

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This entertainment medium facilitated

JFK’s 1960 presidential election victory over Richard Nixon by a razor-thin

margin.

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What is televisiontelevision?

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This was JFK’s campaign slogan

during the election of 1960.

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What is the New Frontier?New Frontier?

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Perhaps the most popular of JFK’s

initiatives, this program sent young Americans to foreign countries to

help impoverished peoples.

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What is the Peace CorpsPeace Corps?

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Because Eisenhower’s “New Look” Military

placed so much emphasis on nuclear forces, JFK

developed this strategy for dealing with smaller conflicts (e.g. creating

the Green Berets).

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What is “Flexible Flexible

ResponseResponse?”

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This program was JFKs attempt at

creating a “Latin American Marshall

Plan."

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What is the Alliance for Alliance for ProgressProgress?

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This militant black organization formed

in response to alleged police brutality and

crushing poverty in urban areas.

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What is the Black Black

PanthersPanthers?

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The most famous spokesman for the

Nation of Islam, this firebrand preached black

separatism and protection of the black

community “by any means necessary.”

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Who is Malcolm Malcolm XX?

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The first to use the term “black power”

as a social and political slogan in the 60s was this young charismatic leader.

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Who is Stokely Stokely CarmichaelCarmichael?

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The emergent black nationalism in the 60s

was inspired by the views of this 1920s Harlem Renaissance

figure.

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Who is Marcus Marcus GarveyGarvey?

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This student organization, formed in the 50s as a branch

of King’s SCLC, evolved into a militant black separatist group

by the late 1960s.

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What is the Student Non-Student Non-

violent violent Coordinating Coordinating

Committee (SNCC)Committee (SNCC)?

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This issue was the most important

reason for why so many young people protested the war.

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What is the draftdraft?

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These communists in South Vietnam were the targets of U.S.

forces in their “search and

destroy” missions.

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Who are the Viet CongViet Cong?

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President Nixon sought to reduce

U.S. troop levels in Vietnam by

instituting this new policy.

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What is VietnamizationVietnamization?

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Daniel Ellsberg published this in the early 1970s that showed how U.S. policy in Vietnam had

been built on a series of lies by the Johnson

Administration.

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What is the “Pentagon Pentagon PapersPapers?”

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This 1968 slaughter of Vietnamese innocents by Lt. William Calley caused widespread protests in the U.S. that referred to U.S.

soldiers as “baby killers.”

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What is the Mylai MassacreMylai Massacre?

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These long-haired, drug-taking, rock-music listening,

sexually- promiscuous youths were

emblematic of the 1960s counter culture.

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Who are the HippiesHippies?

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The climactic event of the counter culture,

this 1969 concert saw three days of

sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.

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What is WoodstockWoodstock?

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This 1970 “massacre” in Ohio occurred when

college students protested Nixon’s

announcement that the U.S. was invading

Cambodia.

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What is Kent Kent StateState?

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A riot broke out at this 1968 event

when students and police clashed on

the streets of Chicago.

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What is the Democratic Democratic

National National ConventionConvention?

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This “New Left” organization began as a

“free speech” movement but later became the brains behind the Vietnam protest movement.

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What is Students for a Students for a

Democratic Democratic Society (SDS)Society (SDS)?

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This young 1968 presidential

candidate took the “dove” position on

the war; he was later assassinated.

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Who is Robert Robert KennedyKennedy?

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This Arizona Senator and Republican was seen as the “father of modern conservatism” for his platform in the 1964 presidential election.

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Who is Barry Barry GoldwaterGoldwater?

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Realizing the disaffection many

conservative Democrats had for civil rights, Nixon used this

strategy to win the election of 1968.

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What is the “Southern “Southern Strategy?”Strategy?”

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This term refers to President Nixon’s

slogan for “revenue sharing” and

reassigning certain federal

responsibilities to the states.

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What is the “New “New

FederalismFederalism?””

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This controversial candidate of the American Independent Party ran a

popular third party campaign in 1968, appealing to the

conservative backlash against civil rights and

the counter culture.

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Who is George George WallaceWallace?

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This 1969 event symbolized

America’s victory in the “space

race.”

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What is the moonshot moonshot (Apollo 11 (Apollo 11 mission)mission)?

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This Thoreau- and Gandhi-inspired

philosophy underlay Martin Luther King’s

civil rights movement.

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What is civil civil disobedience disobedience or

non-violent non-violent resistanceresistance?

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Beginning in 1969, this controversial policy sought to integrate black students by

transporting them to white schools.

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What is forced forced busingbusing?

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This book by notable American socialist

Michael Harrington, significantly influenced

President Johnson’s “war on poverty.”

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What is The The Other AmericaOther America?

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This 1970 book by Charles Reich argued that the

counter culture’s emphasis on personal

freedom, egalitarianism, and recreational drugs, reflected a fundamental

shift in world view.

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What is The The Greening of Greening of

AmericaAmerica?

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This 1962 book, written by this

woman, spawned the environmental

movement in the United States.

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Rachel CarsonRachel Carson?