What is the policy "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted conquest by armed minorities or outside pressures"-especially communism in Greece and Turkey.
100
5 countries and one organization most involved in the Korean "war."
What is US, N.Korea, S. Korea, USSR, China and the United Nations.
100
First names of the Three brothers and wife of JFK
Who are Joe, Bobby, Edward or Ted, and Jackie
100
Johnson's Program to end povery in our time
What is the Great Society?
100
Nixon's slow policy of giving back the fighting to the south Vietnamese armywhile increasingly removing our troops.
What is Vietnamization?
200
Successfull policy to rebuild Europe with food, goods and monetary aid for a total of $17 billion over 5 years.
What is the Marshall plan?
200
Senator from Wisconsin who chased but never found communists in American government.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
200
SCLC v SNCC
What are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference v Student non-violent Coordinating committee
200
Commission that concluded about the most race riots in US history between 1964-1968 that America was split into two societies-one white, one black.
What is the Kerner commission?
200
Two countries Nixon opened diplomatic relations with
What is China and the USSR?
300
Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1947 describing the lack of freedoms, especially movement, in Soviet dominated Eastern Europe
What is the iron curtain?
300
Case that overturned Plessy v Ferguson in 1954 and Little Rock high school by 1957
What is the Brown v Board case?
300
Kennedy' comment about it was "that Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan"
What is the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961?
300
General and Secretary of Defense during Vietnam war
Who is Wiliam Westmoreland and Robert McNamara?
300
Two of the four female leaders of the 1970s National womens political caucus who got civil rights measures extended to women and Congress to pass the ERA (though 3/4 of the states did not)
Who are Gloria Steinam, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug?
400
Original "Mr. X" author of the containment policy
Who is George Kennan?
400
Ike warned about this as his farewell, while his pro "liberation" Secretary of State ______ disagreed.
What is the military industrial complex and John Foster Dulles
400
Kennedy tried to prop this dictator up at first, comparing US aid to the thirst of an alcoholic, then had him assassinated right before his own assassination.
Who is south Vietnam's Diem?
400
Turning point that led Americans to support the Vietnam war less, and main reason LBJ did not run again for president.
What is the Tet offensive?
400
Revealed in the Pentagon papers
What is the truth of the gulf of tonkin, Diem, lying,Cambodia and Laos?
500
Response to Stalin cutting off the capitol of East Germany and threatening WWIII
What is the Berlin airlift?
500
Three Countries that Ike secretly got CIA or US military involved with.
What are Iran, Guatemala,Vietnam,Lebanon, USSR? (3 of these)
500
He Promised we would walk on the moon by the end of the decade, and this man did in 1969
Who is Neil Armstrong?
500
republican candidate for President in 1964 and two democratic candidates in 1968
Who is Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and Hubert Humphrey
500
pseudogates, cynicism and distrust of government, tightened rules regarding bribery, aggressive reporting by news media, limits of executive privelage