The Great Society
Free nursery school program for disadvantaged preschoolers.
What is Head Start?
The two words used to describe supporters and opponents of the Vietnam War.
What are "hawks" & "doves"?
The 1963 Presidential Commission on the Status of Women called for the elimination of barriers to women's access to jobs and education but also called for more support for women as ______ and _______.
A former member of the KKK, he assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
Who is James Earl Ray?
The 1962 case of Engel vs. Vitale banned this in public schools. There are two possible answers.
What is the Bible and prayer?
This government agency fought against housing discrimination, and fought for rent control for apartments.
What is Housing and Urban Development? (HUD)
North Vietnam & Vietcong (VC) launched an all-out attack on South Vietnam during this Vietnamese holiday.
What is Tet? (Tet Offensive)
This bill, passed in 1963, mandated that men & women performing the same job must be paid the same.
What is the Equal Pay Act?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he oversaw several crucial "Law & Order" cases of the 1960s & 1970s.
Who is Earl Warren?
What is Kent State and Jackson State?
This program helped high school students sign up for job training programs and find employment after high school.
What is Job Corps?
U.S. troops wiped out a village of South Vietnamese women & children in 1968 for suspected enemy activity.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
This organization fights against gender discrimination and fights for abortion rights and equal access to jobs.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This Palestinian national assassinated Robert Kennedy because Kennedy supported the sale of US fighter jets to Israel.
Who is Sirhan Sirhan?
The 1963 case of Gideon vs. Wainwright guaranteed anyone has the right to a ______ if they can't afford one.
What is a lawyer?
Government healthcare for senior citizens.
President Lyndon Johnson was given unlimited military authority to conduct operations in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Her book, The Feminine Mystique, encouraged women to find fulfillment through education and work, not childbirth and home making.
Who is Betty Friedan?
Who is Henry Kissinger?
The easing of tension, especially between countries.
What is detente?
Government healthcare for anyone living in poverty.
What is Medicaid?
President Richard Nixon wanted to turn control of the Vietnam War over to South Vietnamese troops and slowly withdraw US troops.
What is Vietnamization?
This famous addition to the 1972 Education Amendments Bill guaranteed women equal access/treatment in all educational institutions receiving federal funding. Yay, women's sports!
What is Title IX?
Nixon visited China in 1972 and met this Chinese leader.
Who is Mao Zedong?
After this famous Supreme Court case in 1966, the police must read you your ________ rights when they arrest you.
What are your Miranda rights? Miranda vs. Arizona?