Fashion
These dramatically shortened skirts, seen as symbols of freedom and sexual liberation, caused moral outrage in some parts of the press during the 1960s.
What is mini-skirt
This 1963 book was credited with sparking the second-wave feminist movement.
What is The Feminine Mystique
This Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, marked the beginning of the Space Race.
What is Sputnik 1?
The biggest music genre that lasted from the 1950s to the 1960s.
What was rock ‘n’ roll?
This 1962 crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war after Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This term describes the 1960s shift toward youth-driven and inexpensive fast fashion.
What is youthquake
The name of the 1964 law that prohibited employment discrimination based on gender?
What is the Civil Rights Act
This U.S. president challenged America to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A counterculture movement related to “flower power”
What was the hippie movement?
This U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Known for her pillbox hats, pastel suits, and boxy but elegant silhouettes, this American First Lady popularized the early 1960s polished style.
What is Jackie Kennedy
The radical group associated with the phrase, "sisterhood is powerful."
What is Redstockings
This Soviet cosmonaut became the first human to travel into space in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The biggest music festival of the 1960's
What was Woodstock?
The decade in which Jeopardy was first aired.
What is 1960s?
This style embraced bell-bottoms, maxi dresses, and floral patterns as expressions of peace and rebellion.
What is Hippie Fashion
The name of the vessel which women threw stereotypically feminine items into during the Miss America protest.
What is Freedom Trash Can
This Soviet engineer, often called the "Chief Designer," led the development of Sputnik and the R-7 rocket.
Who is Sergei Korolev?
The genre of Bob Dylan's music
What is Folk/Protest music?
This U.S. president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Popular in the mid‑1960s as a disposable dress, this type of garment was often made from cellulose and rayon.
What is paper dress
The name of the feminist magazine founded by Gloria Steinem as a result of her investigative journalism.
What is the Ms. Magazine.
According to Victor Riesel, approximately this many Americans worked directly in space-related programs during the 1960s.
What is 1.5 million?
The name of the Scandal that contributed to the decline of Rock 'n' Roll
What was the payola scandal?
This 1964 incident led Congress to give President Johnson broad authority to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
This 1964 incident in the Gulf of Tonkin led Congress to give President Johnson broad authority to increase U.S. involvement in Vietnam.