World War II
He was the fascist leader of Italy
Who is Benito Mussolini?
The goal of this plan was the help rebuild Western Europe & to prevent the Soviet Union from taking over influence in the region.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This incident in 1962 was the closet the Soviet Union and the United States ever came to mutually assured destructions by using nuclear weapons on each other.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This was the name of the young counterculture kids who dressed in bright tie-dye, Native American inspired fashion, grew their hair long, wore baggy ripped jeans, lived in WV Busses, and were commonly under the influence of LSD and Marijuana
Who are hippies?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
True or False: "The United States successfully kept the communists out of BOTH South Korea & South Vietnam"
False: The US only kept the communists out of South Korea, but Vietnam was united under communist rule in 1975.
This was the vast differences in viewpoints between teenagers and parents in the 1960s.
What is the Generation Gap?
What is the Great Society?
Hawks or Doves: This was the side that favored the war, and wanted the US to defeat Communism at all costs.
Who are the Hawks?
What are Atomic Bombs?
What is the Freedom of Speech?
This man, led the United Farm Workers in their fight for better pay and better working conditions.
Who is Caesar Chavez?
This program, announced on the steps of the Michigan Union, involved young Americans to go overseas and help developing nations including building schools and digging wells.
What is the Peace Corps?
This president escalated the Vietnam War after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who is LBJ? Lyndon B. Johnson.
The plan to transport all European Jews to extermination (death) camps.
What was the "Final Solution?"
What are Soviet Spies?
Abortion was made legal as a result of this Supreme Court case
What is Roe v. Wade?
This president took over for John F. Kennedy after he's assassinated in November 22, 1963
Who is LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson?
This was the series of surprise attacks on Vietnamese New Year across South Vietnam, and changed American public opinion on the war.
What was the Tet Offensive?
This presidential order moved all Japanese-Americans to internment camps
What is Executive Order 9066?
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
This is one of the changes that Native Americans were fighting for in the 1960s
What is Self-Government & Keeping Native lands in their possession?
This was apolitical scandal in which President Richard Nixon and members of his staff organized a burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters and then attempted to cover up their illegal activities, leading to prison terms for many involved and Nixon's impeachment
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This university in Ohio was where 4 students shot and killed by the National Guard during a protest over America's illegal invasion of Cambodia
What is Kent State Ohio?