JFK/LBJ
This historic event occurred on November 22, 1963.
What is the JFK assassination?
This war was started with the purpose of "containing" Communism and preventing the Domino Theory.
What started the Vietnam War?
This was the legislative bill that was passed in response to the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
This anti-war protest led to the murder of 4 innocent college students.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
This is the scandal that caused Nixon to resign from office.
What is Watergate?
This is the political platform JFK ran on for his 1960 & 1964 election.
1. Social programs
2. Beat USSR in the Space Race
3. Anti-segregation/Civil Rights
This is the concept that if any one nation nukes another, they will be nuked as well until everything and everyone is destroyed.
What is "Mutually Assured Destruction?"
This is the Constitutional Amendment that banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This is the name of the Viet Cong's large-scale attack on South Vietnam & Saigon in 1968.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This is the name of the foreign policy stance Nixon took to reach out to China and the USSR.
What is "detente?"
This is the set of social programs that provide healthcare to the elderly and poor.
What is Medicare & Medicaid?
(Bonus 100pts: Which one is which?)
This is the international incident that was resolved by the U.S. removing their nuclear missiles from the USSR's border in Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
These are protests that take up seats in restaurants to demand service for people of color.
What are sit-ins?
These reasons are often why many Vietnam veterans have traumatic memories.
1. Witnessed comrades dying to booby traps.
2. Napalm & Agent Orange decimating countryside.
3. Guerilla tactics led to a stalemate & loss of morale.
What is the first man on the moon?
(Bonus 100pts: What did Neil Armstrong say as he walked on the face of the moon for the first time?)
These are the series of programs that hoped to reduce socioeconomic inequality.
What is The Great Society?
This treaty signed to calm down the Cold War lowered the production rates of nuclear bombs and banned production of ICBMs.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (S.A.L.T.)?
(Bonus 100pts: What does ICBM stand for?)
This is the act of endless stalling to keep a bill from going to a Congressional vote.
What is the filibuster?
This is the rejection of social norms of the new generation in the '60s.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is counterculture?
This was one of Nixon's main reactions to the environmentalism movement.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
True or False: JFK's assassin is named Jack Leon Ruby.
False.
(If stolen: Who actually did it, and what happened to Jack Leon Ruby?)
This group of former nationals were trained and organized by the CIA to invade and take back their homeland.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This is a man who advocated for African-Americans to bear arms in order to combat racial violence and police brutality.
Who is Malcolm X?
This is the act that overturned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
What is the War Powers Act of 1972?
(Bonus 100pts: What powers did they change?)
This is the scandal that removed Vice President Agnew from office.
What is taking bribes?
(Bonus 100pts: What office did he hold when he took those bribes?)