Politics
Civil Rights Act.
What important event occurred during 1964?
Alan Shepard.
How was the first astronaut that the USA sent to space named?
Afros.
What hairstyle did the African Americans use to represent their heritage?
Dirty War.
What was the name given Mexico's response to the Cold War?
Fidel Castro.
Who first banned free elections in Cuba during his presidency?
France.
Which country withdrew from NATO in 1966?
BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
What is the name of the computer programming language that surged in 1964?
Baby Boomers.
What was the name given to the post-WWII generation that distinguished the counterculture of the decade of the 1960s?
The Sinai Peninsula.
What territory did the Israeli occupy during the Six Day War?
Memphis, Tennessee.
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
What event of 1962 became yet another front in which the USA and the USSR fought over communist ideals?
1969.
(Hint: An invention that is now part of our everyday lives).
Which year marked the birth of the Internet?
Sidney Poitier.
Who was the first African American actor to win an Oscar?
Laos.
Which country was the main subject of the Secret War?
Ernesto Arturo Miranda.
Who was the prisoner that inspired the development of the Miranda Warning?
1967.
(Hint: Court case)
During which year was the Loving vs. Virginia case settled?
Valium (Diazepam).
What is the name of the pharmaceutical drug introduced in 1961?
Love Me Do.
What is the name of the first Beatles single?
1969.
During which year did the Al-Wadiah war explode?
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who was the president that signed the Civil Rights Act?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
What's the name of the resolution that was repealed during the final year of the decade?
What is the name of the fiber first developed in 1965?
Mary Quant.
Who was the designer who popularized mini-skirts in London in the decade of the 1960s?
Namibia.
What country did part of South West Africa become after they left South Africa?
John Glenn.
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?