What offensive occured in Vietnam during this year?
The Tet Offensive
100
In what confrence was an agreement produced that called for an immediate cease-fire in the war and that Vietnam would be would be temporarily partitioned along the 17th parallel?
What is the Geneva Conference?
100
Name one song by the Beatles.
Answers may vary.
100
Name the two main presidents of the 1960s.
Who are JFK and LBJ?
100
Name two pieces of Civil rights legislation that were passed during the 1960's.
What is the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, or the Equal Pay Act?
200
Name one person who was assassined during 1968.
Who is Bobby Kennedy or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
What was the National Liberation Front (NLF) also known as?
What is the Viet Cong?
200
Name a popular cartoon show in the 1960s
Answers may vary.
200
What was the two-week long foreign relations crisis that occured during Kennedy's presidency?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Who was a major leader in the Mexican-American civil rights movement?
Who is Cesar Chavez?
300
Name the country outside of the United States that had protests during 1968.
What is France?
300
What was the name of the plan that was focused on winning the allegience of the Vietamese citizens?
Winning their "Hearts and Minds"
300
Who is the author of the popular novel To Kill A Mockingbird?
Who is Harper Lee?
300
What was President Lyndon Johnson's platform called?
What is the Great Society?
300
Who is the author of the Feminine Mystique?
Who is Betty Friedan?
400
What space mission took place during the end of 1968?
What is Apollo 8?
400
What was the strategy premised on the belief that the United States could inflict so many casualites and so much damage on the enemy that eventually they would be unable and unwillling to continue the struggle?
What is attrition?
400
What is the name of the widely attended music festival that took place in 1969?
What is Woodstock?
400
What was the piece of legislation that greatly expanded the power of the presidency and allowed for the U.S. entrance in the Vietnam War?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Who was an African-American civil rights leader and a leader of the Nation of Islam?
Who is Malcolm X?
500
Who became president in November of 1968?
Who is Richard Nixon?
500
Which leader of South Vietnam did the Americans help topple?
Who is Diem?
500
What popular movie during the 1960s is Julie Andrews the star of?
My Fair Lady, the Sound of Music, or Mary Poppins.
500
Name the speaker of this quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Who is JFK?
500
In what year did the March on Washington take place?