Cuba
Who took control of Cuba following the overthrow of Bautista?
Fidel Castro
What was the name of the interracial coalition of activists who took busses into the South to challenge the segregation of public spaces?
The Freedom Riders
What did President Eisenhower warn the incoming President Kennedy would be his greatest national security threat?
The situation in Laos
What was the iconic method of protest taken by some Buddhist monks against the Diem regime?
They self-immolated
What was the name of the counterculture movement that shunned conventional clothing, embraced both drug use & sexual promiscuity and had sympathies for Marxism?
The Hippies
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
A CIA orchestrated invasion of Cuba which was carried out by Cuban exiles who opposed Castro
Who was James Meredith?
Who was the leader of the Communists in Vietnam during the late 1940s until 1969?
Ho Chi Minh
What did the Kennedy Administration do to handle the political chaos in South Vietnam in late 1963?
The CIA helped orchestrate a coup which overthrew and murdered President Diem
Who was the female counterculture singer that died at the age of 27 from a Heroin overdose that wrote the song Mercedes Benz?
Janice Joplin
How did Castro respond to the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
He invited the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter a future American invasion
What was the key Civil Rights legislation that redefined the hiring process in the US?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the missed opportunity between Ho Chi Minh and President Truman?
Ho had sent a letter to Washington which requested the US recognize Vietnamese independence, but the US decided to support the restoration of French colonial rule instead.
What happened during the Gulf of Tonkin incident and what was its significance?
Initially a US Navy Ship had a brief skirmish with North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The next day two US Navy ships returned to the location and falsely reported coming under enemy attack. This was used as a pretext by the Johnson Administration to escalate the Vietnam Conflict.
What famous song written by Meryl Haggard was written in opposition to the counterculture?
Oakie from Muskogee
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis play out?
America blockaded Cuba and the Soviets refused to honor the blockade. Eventually secret negotiations were held between the US and Soviet Union, and the two countries reached a compromise:
The Soviets would remove their nuclear weapons from Cuba and America would remove its Jupiter Missiles from Turkey on the Soviet border.
What was the landmark Supreme Court case that ended the miscegenation laws that existed in many states?
Loving v. Virginia
Who was the President of South Vietnam from the late 1950s until 1963?
President Ngo Dinh Diem
Who was Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and most of the Johnson Administrations that resigned in 1968 over his opposition to the government's Vietnam policy?
Robert Macnamara
What was the Chennault Affair?
When Henry Kissinger, an American involved in the Paris Peace Talks with North Vietnam, began to leak information from the talks to the Nixon Campaign. The Nixon Campaign than used Anna Chennault as an intermediary to deliver a message to the South Vietnamese. Through Chennault, Nixon successfully convinced the South Vietnamese he would give them a better deal than Johnson, and the South Vietnamese delegation chose to back out of the talks until Nixon became president. Johnson knew this was happening because he was illegally wiretapping the Nixon campaign.
Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs which government official was fired by President Kennedy?
Who was the Alabama Governor who declared, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever"?
What was a major issue with the Diem regime in regard to how it treated its people?
Diem was a Catholic who discriminated against the nation's Buddhist Majority
What was the name of massacre that was stopped by the courageous actions of Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr.?
What was the third-party political ticket in the 1968 election that won five states?
Wallace-Lemay