Cold War
leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
the Soviet Union "won" the space race with the launch of this in 1957
What is Sputnik?
Republican candidate in the 1964 election
Who is Barry Goldwater?
colonial power that controlled Vietnam until 1954
What is France?
this city in California became a key center for the counterculture movement
What is San Francisco?
name for the campaign that occurred during the Vietnamese new year and turned American public opinion against the war
What is the Tet Offensive?
name for the planned invasion of Cuba that failed under JFK
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
name of the man who was the first American to orbit the earth
What is John Glenn?
the two presidential candidates who participated in the first televised debate
President who dramatically increased the number of "advisors" sent to Vietnam
Who is JFK?
name of the songwriter who became known for his lyrics about the changing times and the Vietnam War
Who is Bob Dylan?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in this city while campaigning with striking sanitation workers
What is Memphis?
leader of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution
Who is Fidel Castro?
Kennedy dramatically increased funding to this government organization to fund space exploration
What is NASA?
Richard Nixon had been the vice president for which administration?
What is the Eisenhower administration?
an incident here led to LBJ authorizing escalation of the war by sending combat troops
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
young people who were born during this era of the 1950s made up the majority of the counterculture movement and also faced a generation gap with their parents
What is the baby boom?
name of the presidential candidate assassinated in June 1968
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
Kennedy signed this type of treaty with the Soviet Union in 1963 after resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is a nuclear test ban treaty?
name for the program that was responsible for the moon landing
What is the Apollo Program?
the "New Frontier" was a policy of this president
name for Nixon's policy of ending American involvement in Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
name for young people who dressed in bright colors, wore long hair, took psychedelics and generally were against the "establishment"
What are hippies?
this president announced that he would not run for reelection
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
this nation fell to communism under Mao Zedong after a civil war in 1949
What is China?
The US finally "won" the space race when they landed on the moon in this year
What is 1969?
the Great Society was a policy of this president
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
protests against the war at this university in Ohio turned deadly when National Guard troops fired into the crowd and killed four students
What is Kent State?
the Woodstock festival in this state was held in 1969 and came to represent the goals of the counterculture movement
What is New York?
the My Lai massacre was committed and represented this type of mission carried out by combat troops in Vietnam (3 words)
What is "search and destroy?"