Decades
Civil Rights
Nixon
Vietnam
Watergate and Ford
100

This Tennessean developed rock and roll music, based on Gospel, blues, and country music

Elvis Presley

100

These black students received Army protection to desegregate their high school in Arkansas

Little Rock 9

100

Nixon signed a law preventing this product from being advertised on TV

Cigarettes 

100

This communist guerilla's role in the anti-Japanese resistance likely encouraged some North Vietnamese citizens to embrace his communist views

Ho Chi Minh

100

This CBS anchor, a critic of Nixon, aired two lengthy specials about Watergate

Walter Cronkite

200

John F. Kennedy proposed federally-funded health care for the _________________

Elderly
200

This nickname describes the beating of civil rights activists on Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, AL.

"Bloody Sunday"
200

The left-wing counterculture supported this Minnesota Democrat in the 1968 Democratic primaries

Eugene "Gene" McCarthy
200

This 1968 attack, falling on a Vietnamese holiday, overwhelmed American and South Vietnamese forces

Tet Offensive

200

This man, along with E. Howard Hunt, directed the CREeP

G. Gordon Liddy

300

American newscasts showed "_______________ and ____________" missions in 'Nam, which soured the war effort's legitimacy in some citizens' eyes

Search and Destroy

300

Linda Brown sued this city's board of education to end racial discrimination in school admissions

Topeka, KS

300
In addition to accusations of causing or enabling human rights abuses, conservatives also accused Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of:

Being soft on communism

300

In 1970, Nixon sent troops to destroy Viet Cong hideouts in this neighboring country

Cambodia

300

Richard Nixon was accused of this crime for offering hush money to his burglars

Bribery

400

Martin Luther King's most famous speech was delivered in this year.

1963

400

What baseball team helped popularize the cause of integration?

The Brooklyn Dodgers
400

Which of Bobby Kennedy's policy stances most likely led to his assasination

Support for Israel



BONUS:

What were his four major policy stances? (Anti-war, pro-civil rights, pro-Israel and anti-Mafia)

DOUBLE BONUS: What was his top focus? (Ending the Vietnam War)

400

Four antiwar protestors were shot and killed at this Ohio college, eroding what little support for the American war effort remained

Kent State

400

Gerald Ford oversaw a crucial treaty in this city

Helsinki, Finland

500

Richard Nixon was reelected in this year, defeating far-left Sen. George McGovern (D-SD)

1972

500

Dr. King delivered his famous I Have a Dream Speech in this month

August

500

Nixon returned land in this state to the Taos Pueblo

New Mexico

500

Americans and South Vietnamese resistance were evacuated in April 1975 as this city fell to the North Vietnamese

Saigon

500

Gerald Ford hailed from this city, and is the only President from this state (let alone city)

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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