Johnson and his supporters used several harsh campaign ads to portray Johnson's opponent in the 1964 election as a pro-nuclear war maniac. This was considered the first _____________ campaign.
What is a mud-slinging campaign?
100
South Vietnamese rebels who wanted to be communist.
What is the Viet Cong?
100
He was the first American to orbit the earth.
Daily Double: He was the first American in space.
Who is John Glenn?
Who is Alan Shepard Jr.?
100
Widely considered the cultural highlight of the decade
What is Woodstock?
200
This was the massive foreign policy failure of JFK's presidency.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
200
Passed by LBJ, this officially ended segregation in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
The symbolic turning point in the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
This was a campaign to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi.
What is Freedom Summer?
200
The youth culture of the 1960s that rejected the traditionally-minded culture of the last generation.
What is the counterculture?
300
JFK created this organization for humanitarian purposes, but also to strengthen America's image abroad.
What is the Peace Corps?
300
The name for Johnson's domestic policy.
Daily Double: What is the name given to Johnson's work to alleviate the hardships that the poor faced?
What is LBJ's Great Society?
What is LBJ's War on Poverty?
300
The supply route by which North Vietnam aided the Viet Cong.
What is the Ho Chi Minh trail?
300
Believed that African Americans should fight for equal rights "by any means necessary"
Who is Malcolm X?
300
She wrote a book about the "problem with no name" that many women felt in the 1960s.
Daily Double: Name the book
Who is Betty Friedan?
What is The Feminine Mystique?
400
The election of 1960 was notable because this was the first election with _________________.
What are televised debates?
400
Exhausted by the course of the Vietnam War, Johnson made the announcement that he would not _______________ regarding the election of 1968.
What is seek re-election?
400
LBJ's "Blank check" to escalate the war.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
400
He wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
Black and white Americans who deliberately broke the segregation laws of public transit systems.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
500
It was here that Kennedy was assassinated.
Daily Double: JFK's widely accepted assassin?
What is Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas?
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
500
Coming from an Executive Order from LBJ, this was supposed to combat discrimination in the hiring/admission process.
What is Affirmative Action?
500
The Vietnamese New Year.
Daily Double: What usually happens to the fighting on the Vietnamese New Year
What is Tet?
What is a ceasefire?
500
In the aftermath of JFK's profoundly shocking death, the ___________ __________ was created to look into his death.