War
Civil rights
Social programs
Daily life
Elections and politicians
100
The place where trained Cuban operatives would invade their homeland and attempt to depose the communist dictator Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
100

The black panther movement held this man's teachings in high regard.

Who is Malcolm X?

100

Medicare and Medicaid were first proposed by this president.

Who is Harry Truman?

100

This is an excellent example of an early TV hit. It starred a likable female main character, and very few controversial statements or depictions.

What is I love Lucy?

100

The first Republican President since Coolidge.

Who is Dwight Eisenhower?

200

This man was in charge of ground forces during the US involvement in Vietnam.   

Who is William Westmoreland?

200

This governor opposed integration in school and mobilized the national guard to bar black children from entry into a white schools.

Who is Orval Faubus?

200

This government program gave soldiers financial aid when attending college.

What is the GI Bill?

200
This TV personality was famous for cheating on the 64,000 dollar question.

Who is Charles Van Doren.

200
Considered the 2nd most important president of the 20th century after FDR.

Who is president Lyndon B. Johnson?

300

This surprise military campaign convinced many in America that the Vietnamese were not close to giving in.

What is the Tet offensive?

300

This said that it was illegal to segregate public schools.

What is Brown vs. Board of education?

300

This act provided funding to a very poor region of the United States.

What is the Appalachian Regional Development Act?

300

This was the model town for identical houses, small, well-groomed lawns, and complete synchronicity. The original suburbia.

What is Levittown?

300

The scandal at the Watergate Hotel ultimately led to this president's resigning.

Who is president Nixon?

400

This battle fully knocked the French out of Vietnam.

What is the battle of Dien Bien Phu?

400

This man arrested Martin Luther King during protests in Montgomery Alabama.

Who is Bull Conner?

400

This act secured money for programs like VISTA and the Job Corps.

What is the Economic opportunity act?

400

Kemmons Wilson founded this company.

What is the Holiday Inn?

400

This presidential candidate was assassinated before he got the chance to run against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election.

Who is Robert Kennedy?
500

This supply line was a priority target for the US to destroy, but never could. It stretched into Laos and Cambodia.

What is the Ho Chi Minh trail?

500

James Meredith was denied access to this school by governor Ross Barnet.

What is the University of Mississippi?
500

The war on poverty was an ultimantly hopeless war and was waged by this president.

Who was Lydon B. Johnson?

500

Benjamin Spock was famous for these.

What are parenting books?

500

In 1964, he ran against Lyndon B. Johnson as the Republican candidate but lost. Wanted the government to be cut back significantly.

Who is Berry Goldwater?

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