Vocabulary
What was a massive National Security Threat to the nation in the 1960s. Dealt with a small country off the coast?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
What organization was desegregated after WW2 and gave poeple hope that Civil Rights were possible
What is the Military
When did combat start for the US in the Vietnam War?
What is 1965
What powerhouse concert took place in 1969 and definded an era of cultural changes?
What is Woodstock?
What was the failed Op by the CIA in Cuba
What is the Bay of Pigs
Daily Double
What was the court case that desegregated the schools?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
What was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality?
What are the Black Panthers
In the beginning of the war the US was acting in what capacity?
What is Military advisors
What became a popular slogan of the counter-culture during the 1960s used to refer to their opinion on the wars the US had entered during the decade?
What is make love not war
What is the Court battle that established that women had a right to abortion
What is Roe vs Wade
What was the movement to leave or fight against the current national culture called?
What is the Counterculture
What was the most impactful speech for Civil Rights delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial?
What is the I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.?
What was the Chemical dropped over Vietnam that caused mass birth defects?
What is Agent Orange
What is a common item that was becoming more and more accepted and used by the majority of Counterculture members?
What is Drug use
What is Rosa Parks famous for starting?
What is Bus Boycots
What is the active, nonviolent, and public refusal to obey specific laws, demands, or orders from a government, motivated by a desire to change unjust laws, policies, or practices.
What is Civil Disobedience.
What Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the chemical compound used to burn out combatants positions?
What is Napalm?
What happened at the Democratic National Convention of 1968 in Chicago?
What is the police attacked protesters.
What chemical compound was used in Vietnam and was used to burn combatants out of their positions?
What is Napalm
What is the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization
What act was created to eliminate all the discriminatory voting practices in states
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the most controversial issue that college students protested about the Vietnam War?
What is the Draft?
What college group was established to protest the Vietnam War and other cultural issues?
What is the Students for a Democratic Society
What was The Great Society's main objective?
What is eliminate poverty and racial injustice while improving the overall quality of American life?
What program was designed to increase educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities?
What is Affirmative Action