LBJ
JFK
1940s
1950s
1960s
100
3 programs included in Johnson's "Great Society"
What is Head Start, Medicare, and Medicaid?
100
This incident hurt Kennedy's popularity
What is the Bay of Pigs?
100
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was dedicated to bringing about change using this method
What is peaceful confrontation or non-violence?
100
the first African American baseball player to play in the Major Leagues
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
the leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
A program that sends volunteers to help people in poor communities in the US
What is VISTA?
200
Created to send volunteers to countries to help out
What is the Peace Corps?
200
The president credited with integrating the troops
Who is Truman?
200
The decision the Supreme Court made in Brown v. Board of Education
What is separate but equal is unconstitutional?
200
Refers to African American students who wanted to attend a white high school in Arkansas
Who are the Little Rock 9?
300
Describes actions by Johnson to "heal" the nation after the assassination of JFK
What is getting Kennedy's civil rights acts passed?
300
This event nearly brought the US to the brink of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The main reason President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
What is saving American lives?
300
This event started the Civil Rights Movement
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
How the Southern Christian Leadership Conference shifted the focus of the civil rights movement
What is shifting the focus of the movement to the South?
400
The name of Johnson's domestic program
What is the Great Society?
400
Kennedy's domestic program was the New Frontier. Besides ending poverty, what else was Kennedy focused on?
What is the space program?
400
refers to a military alliance based on collective security; "an attack on one is an attack on all"
What is NATO?
400
The first televised presidential debates were between these 2 candidates
Who are Nixon and Kennedy?
400
The significance of the "March on Washington" 1963?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech?
500
2 health care programs included in Johnson's domestic plan
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
500
This resulted in the building of the Berlin Wass
What is the Berlin Crisis?
500
Created by Congress to investiate disloyalty especially in the Hollywood movie industry
What is the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?
500
Refers to the incident in which an American spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union
What is the U-2 incident?
500
This ended the poll tax
What is the 24th Amendment?
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