World War II
1968
Presidents
People, Places and Things
The Cold War
100
"A date which will live in infamy"
What is December 7, 1941?
100
This civil rights leader was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
He lost the 1960 presidential election, but would end the decade in the oval office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
This vice president that could not defeat Nixon in 1968.
Who is Hubert Humphrey?
100

A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies.

What is the nuclear arms race?
200

The strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific.

What is island hopping?
200
This military campaign that became a turning point in the Vietnam war on January 30, 1968.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200

A peanut farmer.

Who is Jimmy Carter?
200
This Alabama governor that declared "segregation now, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?
200

October 1962, the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300

The bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy”, was dropped by this B-29 Superfortress bomber.

What is the Enola Gay?
300
This presidential hopeful was assassinated on June 6, 1968.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
300

This president signed the Civil Rights Act.

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
The first artificial space satellite?
What is Sputnik?
400

The fictional star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II.

Who is Rosie the Riveter?
400
He withdrew from the presidential race on March 31, 1968.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
400
The only president to win four presidential elections.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
An independent agency of the US federal government founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935.
What is the Social Security administration?
400
A latitudinal line, today known as the Demilitarized zone.
What is the 38th parallel?
500
Codename for the battle of Normandy.
What is Operation Overlord?
500
A prestigious university that saw protests between April 23-30, 1968.
What is Columbia University?
500
William Jennings Bryan's opposition.
Who is William McKinley?
500
Discovered and developed one of the first polio vaccines.
Who is Jonas Salk?
500

a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved, like Vietnam.

What is a proxy war?
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