Cuban Communism
This country placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, leading to a tense standoff with the United States in 1962.
What is the Soviet Union?
Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic agenda was largely focused on improving education, health care, and poverty, collectively known as this.
What is the Great Society?
The U.S. entered the Vietnam War as part of this broader strategy aimed at preventing the spread of communism, first articulated during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This civil rights leader promoted black separatism and believed that African Americans should create their own institutions and communities, separate from white society.
Who is Malcolm X?
This organization, founded in 1966, advocated for women’s rights and was led by figures like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
The Cuban Missile Crisis nearly escalated into this type of global conflict.
What is nuclear war?
These 1965 programs, part of the Great Society, aimed to provide health care to senior citizens and low income families.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
As the Vietnam War escalated, growing concern over the expansion of presidential power was fueled by President Lyndon B. Johnson's actions, particularly his use of this 1964 resolution to increase military involvement without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1968 event led by Cesar Chavez advocated for the rights of migrant farm workers and resulted in improved working conditions.
What is the Delano Grape Strike?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy’s advisors recommended an invasion of Cuba. Rather than risk war with the Soviet Union, Kennedy adopted this strategy which he called a "quarantine."
What is a naval blockade?
This program, enacted in 1965, provided free preschool education for low income families
What is the Head Start program?
This nationwide movement, which began in the 1960s, sought to stop U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, driven by concerns about the war’s moral and political implications.
What is the antiwar movement?
This organization, founded in 1909, played a major role in the fight for civil rights and was led by figures like W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This Native American organization, founded in 1968, aimed to address issues of systemic discrimination, broken treaties by the federal government and led protests such as the occupation of Alcatraz Island.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved after the USSR agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for this.
What is a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba?
Established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this group was tasked with investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
What is the Warren Commission?
The 1968 Tet Offensive, a large-scale surprise attack by North Vietnamese forces, shattered public confidence in the progress of the Vietnam War and contributed to President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to do this.
What is not to run for re-election?
These state and local laws, enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, enforced racial segregation in the South and were a major target of the Civil Rights Movement.
What are Jim Crow laws?
In 1965, this organization was founded to advance the rights of farm workers and is still active in fighting for labor equality.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
President Kennedy's foreign policy focused on containing communism, and he supported this failed invasion of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The 1960 presidential election was the first to feature this new form of media, which helped John F. Kennedy win.
What is the televised presidential debate?
This movement, which emerged in the 1960s, rejected traditional values and embraced alternative lifestyles, often protesting against materialism and war.
What is the counterculture?
This nonviolent protest strategy, famously used by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, involved peacefully breaking laws that were considered unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which increased immigration from non-European countries, helped pave the way for this 1968 law that provided federal funding for bilingual education programs to assist immigrant students.
What is the Bilingual Education Act?