Presidents
Who became president after Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945) immediately wanted to stand up to Stalin
Who is President Harry Truman
Thurgood Marshall successfully argued in the Supreme Court that Brown was denied “equal protection of the laws” in what landmark case?
What Bown v the Board of Education 1954
What organization did the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Ireland start after WWII?
What is NATO?
What incident was used to justify America's presence in Vietnam? Later, it was discovered that one of the attacks had never happened.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Who did James Early Ray assassinate in Memphis in April 1968?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Who became US president after Harry Truman?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who was the 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
Who was Emmitt Till
This "event" was named after a senator, whoi in February 1950, claimed to have a list of known Communists working the State Department and waged a smear campaign against those who were “soft” on communism.
What is McCarthyism?
What incident changed American opinion almost overnight about involvement in Vietnam?
What is the Tet Offensive?
Which presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair?
What is The Clintons
What Senator (who would later be president) stepped in to ensure a Latino soldier killed in action, who was refused burial in Texas, was buried at Arlington Cemetary?
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
Who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery City bus?
Who was Rosa Parks
On February 1, 1960, a group of four black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This began a non-violent movement knows as what?
What is Sit-ins.
After this incident, many Americans view all Vietnam veterans as “baby killers.” What was the incident
What is My Lai?
Who's last words were,"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there"?
What is Bobby Kennedy
What president freely accepted contributions from the New Right on his way to the Presidency in 1980?
Who is Ronald Reagan
What was "the most segregated city in the United States” notorious for its segregation and racial hatred, gaining the nickname "Bombingham?"
What is Birmingham
What was the scandal that occurred during Reagan's administration?
What is Iran-Contra Affair?
Who promised to start bringing the “boys” home from Vietnam?
Who was Richard Nixon
Who said "I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King."
What is Malcolm X
Who in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?
Who is Jack Ruby
Who, on August 28, 1963, gave a famous speech in Washington D.C. that included the line "I have a dream?"
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What, before 9/11, was the worst terrorist attack in the U.S.?
What is the Oklahoma City Bombing?
What was the first “living-room war” – people watched footage of combat on the nightly news – first was in which television played a major role and the first photographically documented war.
What is Vietnam?
What individuals embraced the Marxist notion of “power to the people!” and considered the black underclass an urban proletariat, founding the Black Panther Party?
What is Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?