Leadership
The president that is known for his Great Society.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Who was Rosa Parks?
What 2 nations emerged as superpowers after WWII begining a period of geopolitical tensions known as The Cold War.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
New style of music that originated from the African American community that gained popularity in the 1950s and 60s and featured artists like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.
What is Rock n Roll?
The political posision of JFK's brother Robert F. Kennedy.
What is attorney general?
The leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a key figure in organizing the March on Washington in 1963.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
The name of the failed US attempt to overthrow the communist government of Cuba in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs Evasion?
The term used to describe the communist infiltration in America during the 1950s.
What is McCarthyism?
The name of the political scandal that forced President Nixon to resine in 1974.
What is watergate?
The type of strategies the NAACP use to advance civil rights
What is a legal strategy?
The term used to describe the policy of hoarding and stockpiling nuclear weapons as a deterrent against potential agression.
What is nuclear deterence?
The book published in 1953 by Betty Friedan, is often credited with igniting the second wave of feminism in the United States.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
The name of the republican nominee who ran against Lyndon B. Johnson in the election of 1968.
Who is Barry Goldwater?
The name of the voting rights rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
The organization Martin Luther King Jr. was president of.
What is Montgomery Improvement Assosiation (MIA)?
What is Woodstock?
The name of President Carter's foreign policy doctrine, which emphasised respect for human rights and opposion to authoritarian regimes.
What is the Carter Doctrine?
The Supreme Court Case in 1954 ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The name of the policy purseued by Richard Nixon in the 1970s that sought to improve relationsions with the Soviet Union and China in order to isolate the Soviet Union and gain leverage in negotiations.
What is the policy of detente?
The event considered the begining of the modern LGBTQ rights movement that took place in June 1969 when patrons of a NYC bar resisted a police raid.
What is the Stonewall Riots?