PEOPLE
PLACES
THE 50s and 60s
EVENTS
MISCELLANEOUS
200
Unlike MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, this charismatic CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER did NOT believe in turning the other cheek.
Who was MALCOLM X?
200
This is the city where NINE BLACK STUDENTS had to be protected by the 101st AIRBORNE in order to go to high school, when INTEGRATION WAS FIRST INTRODUCED.
What is LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS?
200
In a couple of words, THE 1950s in the US could be described as a DECADE OF CONSUMERISM and this other ALLITERATIVE WORD.
What is CONFORMITY?
200
This BAND recorded the song, OHIO, to commemorate the killing of 4 college students on the campus of KENT STATE UNIVERSITY in the state of Ohio.
Who are CROSBY, STILLS, NASH, and YOUNG?
200
The letters, ERA, stand for what piece of legislation which PASSED BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, but has NOT been RATIFIED BY THE STATES.
What is the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT?
400
This man served as JFK's ATTORNEY GENERAL and was ASSASSINATED WHILE CAMPAIGNING in CALIFORNIA in 1968.
Who is ROBERT F. KENNEDY?
400
The letters USSR stand for what, in naming this MAJOR PLAYER DURING THE COLD WAR.
What is the UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS?
400
The GROWING ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT against US involvement in VIETNAM was energized by MILLIONS OF AMERICANS watching images from the war on this UBIQUITOUS HOME APPLIANCE.
What is a TV?
400
This 3-day MUSIC FESTIVAL took place on YASGUR'S FARM from AUGUST 15 - 18, 1969.
What is Woodstock?
400
The idea that if ONE COUNTRY fell to the COMMUNISTS in ASIA, another and another would soon follow was known as this THEORY.
What is the DOMINO THEORY?
600
This woman is famous for having REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT TO A WHITE PERSON on a bus in MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA in 1955.
Who is ROSA PARKS?
600
After the KOREAN WAR, there was this degree of CHANGE TO THE PRE-EXISTING BOUNDARY BETWEEN NORTH and SOUTH KOREA.
What is LITTLE TO NO CHANGE?
600
Following in the footsteps of many WOMEN'S RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS and EFFORTS, the WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT gained momentum in the 1960s, culminating in the founding in 1966 of NOW, which stands for this.
What is the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN?
600
This REVOLUTIONARY SINGER/SONGWRITER and GUITARIST played his version of the Star Spangled Banner at WOODSTOCK.
Who is JIMI HENDRIX?
600
This man was leader of the USSR during WWII and the start of the COLD WAR.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
800
This iconic photo is of WHAT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER when he is in WHICH CITY'S JAIL?
Who is MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR in a BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA JAIL.
800
The BAY OF PIGS CRISIS happened in what CARIBBEAN COUNTRY?
What is Cuba?
800
This FAMOUS TELEVISION STAR who was MARRIED TO A CUBAN MAN, came under investigation during the period known as MCCARTHYISM.
Who is Lucille Ball?
800
Although NIXON promised PEACE WITH HONOR during his campaign for the US presidency, once in office, he approved the BOMBING OF THESE TWO COUNTRIES WHICH NEIGHBORED VIETNAM.
What are LAOS and CAMBODIA?
800
This US president famously said on NATIONAL TV, "I AM NOT A CROOK."
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
1000
This US president faced down the SOVIET UNION during the CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.
Who is JOHN F. KENNEDY?
1000
This US CITY was the SITE OF JFK's ASSASSINATION on NOVEMBER 22, 1963.
What is DALLAS, TEXAS?
1000
Which SUPREME COURT CASE did the BROWN v BOARD OF EDUCATION overturn?
What is PLESSY v FERGUSON?
1000
Upon RICHARD NIXON'S RESIGNATION from the OFFICE of the PRESIDENCY, this man became the US PRESIDENT.
Who is Gerald Ford?
1000
Whereas the Black Panthers were MILITANT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR practiced this method of activism.
What is NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE?