People
Places
Policies
Organizations
Events
100

His domestic policy was called the "War on Poverty"

LBJ

100

Once ruled by the Shah

Iran

100
Federal healthcare for seniors

Medicare

100

US-Western Europe alliance system

NATO

100

Famous counterculture festival

Woodstock

200

The Soviet Leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Khrushchev

200

Site of a civil rights transportation boycott

Montgomery, AL

200

Fear that communism will spread to adjacent countries

Domino Theory

200

The international organization that controls most oil production

OPEC

200

failed invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained flunkies

Bay of Pigs

300

The Democratic Nominee for President in 1968

Hubert Humphrey

300

A massacre of protesting US students

Kent State U, OH

300

easing of tensions (en Francais)

detente

300

A civil rights organization made up of Black Christian ministers

SCLC

300

Negotiations between US & Soviets (Nixon admin) to limit nuclear arms

SALT

400

Author of the Feminist Mytique

Betty Friedan

400

Strategic hotspot of conflict between UK, France, Egypt & Israel in 1956

Suez

400

Congressional approval for escalation in Vietnam

Gulf on Tonkin Resolution

400

Communist rebels in South Vietnam

Viet Cong

400

Massive series of attacks by communist forces against US & South Vietnamese in 1968

Tet offensive

500

He was the corrupt leader of South Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem

500

Site us a US massacre in Vietnam

My Lai

500

The cleansing of traditional(Chinese) values to make way for pure communism

Cultural Revolution

500

The Chinese name for the US-supported nationalist faction

Kuomintang

500

Climactic battle in the France-Vietnam war of independence in 1954

Dien Bien Phu