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100

Which important Civil Rights leader was a Baptist minister?

Martin Luther King

100

How long was the gap in one of the released White House tapes?

18 and a half minutes

100

What were America's segregation laws known as?

Jim Crow

100

What movement led to students being sent away from the cities?

Down to the Countryside Movement

100

What organisation was Malcolm X a member of?

Nation of Islam

200

Who was chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women?

Eleanor Roosevelt

200

What were built in the Tennessee Valley?

Dams

200

What landmark legislation banned discrimination against women in 1964?

Civil Rights Act

200

In what notorious bombing were 4 girls killed in 1963?

16th Street Baptist Church

200

In what month and year did Nixon resign?

August 1974

300

Who was Senator for Wisconsin in the early 1950s?

Joseph McCarthy

300

What famous landmark was built by the PWA?

Golden Gate Bridge

300

What organisation was established to help farmers?

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

300

In what year was the Watergate burglary?

1972

300

What Hippie slogan was coined by Alan Ginsberg in 1965?

Flower Power

400

Who campaigned for a ‘Share our Wealth’ scheme?

Huey Long

400

What name was given to the place where calls for reform were posted?

Democracy Wall

400

What is the economic policy introduced by Deng refereed to as?

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

400

Where was ‘Bloody Sunday’ in 1965?

Selma, Alabama

400

How many new judges did Roosevelt want to appoint?

6

500

Who replaced Mao as President in 1959?

Liu Shaoqui

500

What did Truman use to try to intimidate Stalin?

Atom Bomb / Hammer

500

What made arranged marriages and bigamy illegal in China in 1950?

Marriage Law

500

What name was given to the meetings at which landlords were attacked?

Speak Bitterness

500

What policy prevented the government controlling the boom?

Laissez-faire

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