Communism at Home
Joseph McCarthy was a Senator from this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This is what "CIA" stands for.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
This is the avian nickname for Americans who were for the war in Vietnam.
What are hawks?
Four students protesting the war in Vietnam were killed by the National Guard at this University.
What is Kent State?
Timothy Leary advocated for the use of this psychadelic drug.
What is LSD?
This is the name of the committee that investigated Americans accused of being communist.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This is one country where the CIA successfully overthrew the government.
What is Iran or Guatemala?
This is the avian nickname for Americans who were against the war in Vietnam.
Who are doves?
This Resolution gave the President the authority to send troops into a foreign country without declaring war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This is the name of a three-day concert in 1969 attended by over half-a-million people, many of whom took drugs.
What is Woodstock?
This is the name of a married couple that was sentenced to death for selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Named for the site of the invasion, this is the name for the CIA's failed overthrow of communist Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This European country originally colonized and controlled Vietnam.
What is France?
This is the name of the coordinated, simultaneous attack on over 100 cities in South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This is the name for a small community in which hippies lived together and shared everything, even romantic partners.
What is a commune?
This televised hearing ultimately created the downfall of McCarthy when he accused members of the army of being communists.
What are the Army-McCarthy hearings?
This is the military action taken by Kennedy in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is a quarantine/blockade?
This was the leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This is the name Nixon gave to the policy of replacing U.S. soldiers with South Vietnamese fighters.
What is Vietnamization?
This is the name of the student group that organized several protests around the country.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society?
This is a term for all members of an industry agreeing not to hire someone (often for being accused of being communist).
What is blacklisting?
This is who JFK sent to negotiate an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
These were the fighting forces in Vietnam who were fighting for the unification of the country, and were not necessarily part of the North Vietnamese Army.
What are the Viet Cong?
This is the country that the Nixon administration bombed secretly before invading in 1970.
What is Cambodia?
This California city was home the Haight-Ashbury district, where hippies formed their own commune.
What is San Francisco?