Civil Rights Movement
This political activist was known for promoting Black Nationalism and aggressive civic action.
What is Malcolm X?
This event in November 1963, shocked the United States and governments around the world.
What is the assassination of JFK?
Kennedy used this to quarantine Cuba from Soviet naval ships and submarines.
What is a blockade?
This gay bar in lower Manhattan was the beginning site of a six day riot.
The biggest reason the Vietnam War was more controversial than earlier wars.
What is television?
This Baptist minister led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
The photographed body of this man sparked the Civil Rights Movement back in the 1950s.
What is Emmett Till
This word best describes the Gulf of Tonkin Incident: Necessary, patriotic, misinformed, antagonizing, or peaceful?
What is misinformed?
This word is used to describes the people of 1960s who rejected conformity, supported pacifism, and embraced counterculture.
What is hippies?
This product's availability helped spark the Women's Liberation Movement.
What is The Pill? (AKA: Hormonal Contraceptives, Birth Control, Enovid)
This court case ended segregation in schools.
Brown v Board of Education
This Vietnam War Event ended in the deaths of 300-500 civilians.
What is the Mai Lai Massacre?
The United States' presence in Vietnam was a continuation of this policy.
What is containment? (AKA: Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory)
Betty Friedan's book that addressed "the problem that has no name.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
These two events caused Russia's pursuit of missile in Cuba.
What is the Jupiter Missiles in Turkey and The Bay of Pigs?
This method of protest focused on nonviolent illegal activity.
What is Civil Disobedience?
The moon landing was significant beyond science because it demonstrated American superiority in this Cold War competition with the Soviet Union.
What is the Space Race?
This government organization was formed to address the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is EXCOMM?
Women's Liberation, Civil Rights, and LGBTQ+ movements all shared this common characteristic.
What is fighting for equality for marginalized groups? (ALSO: What is challenging the status quo? or What is demanding rights?)
This aspect of the 1950s caused Second Wave Feminism in the 1960s.
What is strict gender roles? (AKA Domestic expectations of women)
Loving v Virginia states this was 'one of the basic civil rights of man'?
What is marriage?
List the 3 major assassinations of the 1960s. (+1 for extra 100 points)
What is JFK, MLK, and Malcolm X? (Extra: Bobby Kennedy)
The Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba for these two strategic reasons
What is proximity to the US and countering U.S. missiles in Turkey?
The Stonewall Incident represented this shift in LGBTQ+ activism.
What is quiet acceptance to active resistance?
This person likely prevented a Nuclear WWIII during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Vice Admiral Vasili Arkhipov?