Rock Around the Clock
This suburban development provided an example for all future suburbs.
What is Levittown?
This city attempted to integrate its public schools. When the African-American children tried to go to school, they were met with a mob.
What is Little Rock? (And Lufkin)
This man was the leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
During this event, gay men fought back against police during a bar raid.
What is the Stonewall Riot?
Name two things that helped tank Jimmy Carter's presidency.
What is stagflation, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the Malaise Speech, gasoline shortages, and the rise of the Right?
This act provided a college education and advantageous home loans to veterans
What is the GI Bill?
This boy was murdered in Mississippi. His case brought attention to the brutality taking place in the South.
Who is Emmett Till?
At this place, American soldiers massacred Vietnamese civilians. It came to represent the horrors of the war and the intense pressure that American soldiers were under.
What is My Lai?
This man helped form the United Farm Workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Explain stagflation.
Wages and the economy are stagnant and inflation rises.
These people were critics of 1950s conformity.
Who were teens, Beatniks, Hollywood, and writers/intellectuals?
This man was the main attorney during the Brown vs. Board of Education case. He argued that separate but equal could never be equal.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This man was the leader of South Vietnam until his assassination in 1963.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
Name two Warren Court cases
Roe v. Wade, Engel v. Vitale, Griswold v. Connecticut, Loving v. Virginia, etc.
This group was a third party that assisted countries that produced oil with trade deals.
What is OPEC?
This is the reason why church membership spiked dramatically during the 1950s.
What is fear of Communism and nuclear war?
In this city, African-Americans rioted after an incident of police brutality. It was one of many riots that took place outside of the South during the Civil Rights Movement
What is Los Angeles?
This man was the governor of Alabama who ran for president in 1968 as an independent. He was extremely racist and used the issue of Civil Rights to try to get votes.
Who is George Wallace?
This person founded NOW.
Who is Betty Friedan?
People with the Committee to Re-elect the President broke into this building.
What is Watergate?
This man was the president during most of the 1950s (1952-1960)
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This organization started as an interethnic group that fought for Civil Rights and welcomed both white and black members. It became radicalized under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael
What is SNCC?
This man created the idea of Vietnamization
Who is Henry Kissinger?
This biologist authored a book that sparked the environmentalist movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This Vice President had to step down due to a massive scandal.
Who is Spiro Agnew?