This American musician and songwriter was best remembered for his trademark sunglasses, distinctive voice. Some better known songs are "Only the Lonely" and "Pretty Woman"
Roy Orbison.
100
This war started in 1955 and ended in 1975.
Vietnam War.
100
This structure represented the divide between East and West Germany following the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War.
Berlin Wall
100
This is a type of government program that provides individuals with personal financial benefits
Entitlement programs.
100
This was the name of the Top Secret US project to create an atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project.
200
This person is known for being the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. Immortalized in a Norman Rockwell painting.
This 1972 event led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Watergate scandal.
200
This is one of the principal intelligence-gathering agencies of the United States federal government. Headquartered in Langley, VA.
Central Intelligence Agency - CIA
200
This type of nuclear weapon differs from the atomic bomb because it uses atomic fusion to generate energy rather than atomic fission. It is significantly more destructive.
Hydrogen bomb.
200
This was the first mass produced automobile that was affordable and widely available to the general public.
Ford Model T
300
This quartet of musicians from Liverpool, England is one of the most famous bands in history with songs such as "Hey Jude" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
The Beatles
300
This 1949 event saw Mao Zedong rise to become the leader of China.
Chinese Communist Revolution.
300
This is a socialist social system in which the means of production are commonly owned, and which has no state, money, or social classes. It is also a political way of thinking and an idea of how to get to such a society.
Communism
300
This intersection in San Francisco is often considered the center of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Haight-Ashbury
300
This is the term for forgiveness of a crime and the cancellation of the relevant penalty
Pardon
400
This female black author of the Harlem Renaissance is best remembered for her work, "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Zora Neale Hurston
400
This organization's mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
400
This was a diplomatic strategy of the United States to prevent the spread of the communism during the Cold War.
Containment.
400
This was another name given to the Berlin Wall, or the boundaries between communist and western countries.
Iron Curtain.
400
Nickname given to the policy of supply-side economics that was favored by President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
Reaganomics.
500
This war started in 1950 and ended in 1953
Korean War.
500
This is the type of weapon of mass destruction that ended World War II.
Atomic bomb.
500
This happened in 1954. It was a battle between Vietnam and France, which Vietnam won.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
500
Ohio University where four student protesters were shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in 1970.
Kent State University.
500
This was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia