Presidents
Which President was in office during the Bay of Pigs Massacre?
JFK
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Group of African-American students who enrolled at all white school in Little Rock, AK in 1957
What did M.A.D stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Who was Malcom X?
Civil rights activist who was inspired by the Nation of Islam, he believed that white people needed to be apart of the fight for equality, he believed in violence
What were the Pentagon Papers?
The pentagon papers were top secret governmeny papers that had been published. They showed that the government had been lying to Americans about the Vietnam war for many many years.
What President was involved in 'Watergate'?
President Nixon
What significance do the Freedom Riders have?
They were a group of people who rode buses into the Deep South to fight segregation.
How did the media paint the Vietnam war?
The media portrayed a very negative perception of the US military
Who leaked the Pentagon Papers?
Daniel Ellsberg
What did Ronnie the Riveter represent?
She represented women who worked in factories during WWII
What was Jimmy Carter's profession before becoming President?
Peanut Farmer
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
May 17th, 1954: deemed segregation in educational institutions unconstitutional
Who were the Viet Cong?
They fought for the northern Vietnamese and they disguised themselves as civilians
What was Betty Friedman's most famous accomplishment?
What was the name of the first suburban town?
Levittown
Who created the ERA?
President Nixon
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for Advancement of Colored People
What did Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech entail?
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
He was a lawyer who became a Supreme Court judge, Legal counsel for the NAACP, and he was the lawyer for Brown in Brown v Board of Education
What were the long term effects of the Pentagon Papers?
Created a distrust between the American people and the government leaders. This distrust would take a long time to fix.
List all of the Presidents from 1950-1979 in chronological order.
Dwight Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter
Name one positive and one negative effect that the Blank Panthers had.
Positive: empowered the African-American community
Negative: they killed cops which gave them a negative reputation
Name three nations within the USSR.
Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Who was Ho Chi Min?
Communist dictator of the north Vietnamese
What is the Tet Offensive?
Tet Offensive was that largest military campaign of the Vietnam war.