It's the thirteen-day US-Soviet stand off, sparked by the discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis(1962?
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In the beginning of 1961, activist who traveled by bus through the South to test federal court rulings that banned segregation on buses and trains.
What is Freedom Riders?
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It is a health insurance program for the elderly, and a program of federal grants to states to help cover medical expenses for the poor.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
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The day Johnson appeared on national television to announce a limited halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and renewed efforts for a negotiated cease-fire.
What is March 31, 1968?
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American voters who did not express their political opinions publicly-"the non-demonstrators"
What is silent majority?
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The date President Kennedy was assassinated.
What is November 22, 1963?
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It's the integral organization that was formed in 1960 with the goal of intensifying the effort to end racial segregation.
What is "snick" (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC)?
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The Legislation ensured that all Americans were able to vote, ended literacy tests and other means of restricting voting rights.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
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A surprise attack by Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese army on U.S. and South Vietnamese that shocked the American public and led to a widespread sentiment against the war.
What is Tet offensive?
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The governor of Alabama and an outspoken segregationist.
What is George Wallace?
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Proposed domestic program championed by the incoming Kennedy Administration in 1961.
What is New Frontier?
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A militant form of civil rights protest focused on urban communities in the North.
What is Black Power Movement?
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Increased the federal grants to Universities?
What is Higher Education Act of 1965?
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A Communist guerrillas fighting in South Vietnam to overthrow the US backed government and unify the divided nation under Communist control.
What is Viet Cong (VC)?
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A white racist who shot and killed Martin Luther King.
What is James Earl Ray?
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He developed the reputation for being a cunning deceiver.
What is VP Nixon(1960)?
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Assassinated in Manhattan on February 21,1965.
What is Malcom X?
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He sought to give Americans a sense of forward movements in troubled times.
What is Lyndon B. Johnson?
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A Resolution passed by the Senate on August 7, 1964.
What is Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
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A Jordanian Arab who shot and killed Robert Kennedy in the head.
What is Sirhan Sirhan?
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It's the failed CIA operation that deployed Cuban rebels to overthrow Fidel Castro's Communist regime.
What is Bay of Pigs (1961)?
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Civil rights demonstration on the National Mall, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous " I have a Dream" speech.
What is March of Washington(1963)?
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Long thwarted by southern Democrats who held it up in Congress, This Act was finally became a law in July 2 after 80 days of congressional debate.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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The first sustained bombing of North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
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He stood on a flatbed truck to speak to a grieving crowd of African Americans.