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This senator tried Americans for so called Un-American activities.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This group is the largest defensive alliance in the world. They declared that an attack against any of the members would be an attack against all.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What is the Watergate Hotel?
This Black woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White man and kick started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The basis of US policy to stop Communism from spreading wherever it may pop up. This domino theory put the US into Korea and Vietnam.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
This is a group of southern Democrats who formed a coalition against civil rights. They left the party after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who are the Dixiecrats?
The Soviet Union took control of the satellite nations surrounding it, as a buffer zone against invasion to create this.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Nixon's plan to slowly withdraw US troops from Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
Martin Luther King Jr, defied the wishes of the president to stage a protest in this southern city. King's protest was met by firehoses and "Bull" Connor's police dogs, as the world watched the violence unfold on the new medium of television.
What is Birmingham?
JFK enacted a quarantine of the island nation of Cuba, after it was discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear ballistic missiles there, during these thirteen days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
She wrote The Feminine Mystique, and launched a new wave of feminism with the women's movement.
Who is Betty Friedan?
This program created by Lyndon Baynes Johnson focused on helping the elderly and the poor, while also investing in the arts to make a better nation.
What is the Great Society?
Daily Double if you can tell me why it failed.
Nixon's plan to "normalize" relations with Communist China and the Soviet Union.
What is detente?
This Civil Rights leader rejected civil disobedience and demanded respect "by any means necessary," kick starting the Black Power Movement.
Who is Malcom X?
This "incident" was the official justification for the military escalation to combat in Vietnam.
What is the Golf of Tonkin Resolution?
He united the impoverished Mexican American farmworkers into the United Farm Workers (UFW), igniting the Chicano Movement.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This action was taken by the president, and approved by Congress, to replace Great Britain and France as the guarantor of Western interests in the Middle East. It promised to extend economic and military aid to Arab nations and to use armed force if necessary to stop Communism in the region.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
Richard Nixon created this government agency to take on pollution in America.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This SCOTUS decision ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
Some 70,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops unleased a surprise attack on the US and South Vietnamese forces. This attack changed the outlook of the war for the US Homefront.
What is the Tet offensive?
Between September 1969 and May 1970, this notorious domestic terrorist group bombed 250 draft board offices, ROTC buildings, federal government facilities, and corporate headquarters.
What is the Weather Underground?
The collective term for the anti-war and hippy movements of the 1960s. They often turned to drugs, rock and roll, and expressions of free love.
What is the counterculture?
This president, for the good of the nation, pardoned Nixon of all wrong doing.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This group was created to police the police in Oakland, California, but soon spread across the country as a militant way to build black power.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This General supported using nuclear bombs on China and North Korea after the US had been pushed by to the 48th parallel. Truman fired him for this and his failure in Korea.
Who is General McArthur?