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100

He was the leader of the communist revolution in Cuba 1959.

Who is Fidel Castro?

100

Brown vs. Board of Education declared racial segregation violated this amendment in the Constitution.

What is the 14th amendment?

100

Although his Great Society helped many people, he wouldn't even run for re-election because it was common knowledge he would lost due to how he handled this 'event'.

What is the Vietnam War?

100

He was the communist leader of China

Who is Mao?

100

U.S. soldiers were a part of the United Nations peace keeping forces when it fought THIS war.

What is the Korean War?

200

Cuban exiles trained by CIA were captured by Castro's army when they landed at this location in Cuba.

What is Bay of Pigs?

200

This president enforced the Supreme Court's decision by sending military to protect African American students trying to integrate a High School.

Who is Eisenhower?

200

The name given to his agenda that was a War on Poverty and Inequality.

What is Great Society?

200

When Mao defeated the Chinese Leader Chang Kai Shek.  This is the location Chang Kai Shek exiled too but claiming to still rule China.

What is Taiwan?

200

After the Vietnam War ended the 26th amendment was ratified because it was argued, If I am old enough to fight and die for my country then I am old enough to do THIS

What is vote?

300

The USA's spy planes discovered that these were being built in Cuba.

What are nuclear missiles?

300

Civil Rights leader most associated with civil disobedience and peaceful protests

Who is Martin Luther King Jr. 

300

He deceived Congress to get THIS 'blank check' to escalate the USA's involvement in the Vietnam.  

What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

300

The term that has come to symbolize unfounded accusations of disloyalty and a climate of fear and hysteria.

What is McCarthyism?

300

The U.S. involved itself in Korean War and Vietnam War due to the fear and belief in what theory?

What is the Domino Theory?

400

U.S. battleships surrounded Cuba with the orders to not allow any ship from this nation to pass.

What is Soviet Union?

400

A civil rights leader who criticized MLK for pandering to white society.  Supported separation of races. (was assassinated in 1965)

Who was Malcolm X?

400

A welfare program, or law to fight poverty stemming from the Great Society.

What is school breakfast or lunch program, Head Start, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, 

400

The more people, especially government employees, THIS senator accused of being Soviet spies or secret members of the communist party the more power and prestige society gave him.

Who is (Joseph) McCarthy?

400

This country outsmarted the USA by using the military tactic: war of attrition. 

What is North Vietnam?

500

After the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted JFK offered the USSR to sign this agreement to ease dangers resulting from the arms race.

What is Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?

500

Black registration and participation in elections dramatically increased mostly due to federal government oversight at the polls created by this law.

What is the Voting Rights Act 1965?

500

Two laws to end racism that was passed as part of LBJ's Great Society.

What is Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act?

500

The Red Scare really ignited when it was discovered THIS American married couple were actual spies and sold the Atomic Bomb formula to the USSR.

Who are the Rosenbergs?

500

When U.S. troops made a fast exit out of Vietnam, the North Vietnamese Army conquered Saigon and renamed the city to THIS

What is Ho Chi Mihn City?

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