People
Civil Rights
Vietnam War
Space Race
Government Policy
100
This person was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald
100
A famous African American woman who refused to move from her seat on the bus to a white male. She was thrown in jail and sparked a boycott of public transportations by African Americans who protested the racial segregation of public transportation.
Who is Rosa Parks
100
This was the year that the cease fire was declared during the Vietnam War.
What is 1975
100
The first artificial Earth satellite. It was part of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. 585 mm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. Launched on October 4th, 1957.
What is the Sputnik
100
This Doctrine passed was the basis of the U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine
200
This person wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique," published in 1963
Who is Betty Friedan
200
One of the major aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, this famous court case led to the decision of having separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
These were used by the Vietnamese Army to hide and suddenly attack American Troops when passing
What are Fox Holes
200
This program was created by the United States of America to directly compete with Soviet Union during the cold war and in particular the space race. The program is responsible for having the first man land on the moon, and was found in 1958.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (What is NASA)
200
____________________ was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
300
This Person was the wife of President John F. Kennedy
Who is Jacqueline Kennedy
300
______________ was called the group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.
Who are the Little Rock Nine
300
This was the name of the "trail" used by the Vietcong to transport supplies all over Vietnam
What is the Ho Chi Minh
300
After landing successfully on July 20, he became the first man to walk on the moon's surface; he famously called the moment "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong
300
__________________ is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.
What is McCarthyism
400
This Civil Rights Leader was the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
400
This act issued in 1965 ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas in which blacks were kept from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
These were the two countries also involved in the Vietnam War that the Ho Chi Minh trail also ran through.
What are Laos and Cambodia
400
In 1958, the U.S. launched its own satellite, _______, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
What is the Explorer I
400
What Act in 1947, signed by President Truman realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II?
What is the National Security Act of 1947
500
This Civil Rights Leader changed his name to signify his rejection of his slave name
Who is Malcolm X
500
This is the main young black organization that Malcolm X influenced through his methods of radicalism
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
500
This is the area that the Marines landed on in Vietnam on March 8 1965
What is Da Nang
500
This probe launched by the USSR was the first to ever hit the moon.
What is the Luna 2
500
Primarily created to block further communist gains in Southeast Asia, the ________ was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines
What is the South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)
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