Cold War
Was between what two major superpowers?
The United States and the Soviet Union
Famous Black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white person
Rosa Parks!
Famous music festival in 1969 which reflected the zenith of counterculture
Woodstock
True or False: The Vietnam War caused much violence in protests from many who disagreed with the war.
True
What kind of people specifically were targeted during Jim Crow Era?
Black People
SOVIET DEPENDENT STATES IN
CENTRAL AND EASTERN
EUROPE?
Satellites
Type of segregation that is legally mandated or lawful.
De Jure segregation
Did Alfred Kinsey or Jackie Robinson challenge pioneering sexual practice
Alfred Kinsey
1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
My Lai Massacre
The scandal with Nixon which included the bugging of political opponents' offices, unauthorized investigations
A metaphor that was later used throughout the Cold War to refer to the division between the U.S. allies in Western Europe and Soviet allies of Eastern Europe.
The Iron Curtain
Supreme Court case that ruled the segregation of Black Children in public school was unconstitutional
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
members of the youth international party
yippies
Leader of South Vietnam, 1954-1963; supported by United States, but not by Vietnamese Buddhist majority; assassinated in 1963
Ngo Dinh Diem
Bay of Pigs
AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE
SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED
STATES AGREED TO
TEMPORARY DIVISION OF
KOREA ALONG THIS PARALLEL
OF LATITUDE?
38th parallel
1964 Civil Rights Act
One aspect of counterculture which changed many Americans' attitudes toward sexual expression
Sexual Revolution
Vietname was divided at which parallel to restrict the activities of foreign military personnel in Southeast Asia.
A book which sheds light on ways the US was falling short despite economic growth
The Affluent Society
A $17 billion dollar European Recovery Program/plan known as
The Marshall Plan
The Black Muslim who preached Black nationalism, separatism, and self-improvement.
Malcom X
newly formed radical student organization which held a meeting in Port Huron
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
A naval event off the coast of Vietnam that ultimately gave President Lyndon B. Johnson the power to greatly escalate the U.S. military's direct involvement in Vietnam in 1964.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident
Generation that was born between the end of WWII and mid-1960s?
Boomers