Founder of the Communist Vietcong movement who died of heart failure in the early years of the war
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
100
Sweeping legislation passed by Johnson which reaffirmed the 14th Amendment by outlawing any form of racial segregation
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
Communist guerrilla organization fought by the Americans in Vietnam
What is the Vietcong?
100
Massive foreign policy debacle for Kennedy engineered by the Eisenhower Administration
What is the Bay of Pigs incident?
100
Attorney General under John F. Kennedy who was assassinated while running for president
Who is Robert Kennedy?
200
Leader of a farm worker's union who raised "ethnic consciousness" among the dispossessed minorities of the country
Who is Cesar Chavez?
200
Federal health insurance plan for the elderly which was spearheaded by President Johnson
What is Medicare?
200
Non-violent civil rights group spearheaded by Martin Luther King jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference? (SCLC)
200
Crisis handled by Kennedy which marked the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
Soviet premier who Kennedy faced during the missile crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
Former Harvard professor who encouraged youth across the country to experiment in LSD
Who is Timothy Leary?
300
Overall term for Kennedy's attempted domestic policies which saw little success in Congress
What is the "New Frontier?"
300
Moderate women's rights movement set up in 1966
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
300
Congressional mandate for Johnson's Vietnam actions
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
Extremely conservative senator who was defeated by Johnson for the presidency
Who is Barry Goldwater?
400
Supreme Court justice who oversaw many critical civil rights decisions and was criticized by conservatives for being too much of an "activist"
Who is Earl Warren?
400
Overall term for Johnson's sweeping domestic policies which he masterfully worked through Congress
What is the "Great Society?"
400
Agriculture worker's movement which helped raise minimum wage for farm hands through strikes
What is the National Farm Worker's Association (NAFW)?
400
Increased military action in 1968 by the Vietcong which attempted to sway American political opinion in an election year
What is the Tet Offensive?
400
Kennedy's Secretary of State
Who is Dean Rusk?
500
Author of "The Femenine Mystique" who was one of the most prominent feminists of the 1960s
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
Legislation which required schools to teach histories of the various ethnicities of the United States
What is the Ethnic Heritage Studies Act?
500
Leading student protest group in the country for the Vietnam War
What is the Students for a Democratic Society? (SDS)
500
Commander of American troops in Vietnam who used ineffective "search and destroy" tactics in the war
Who is William Westmoreland?
500
Kennedy's Secretary of Defense who was a prime architect for the Vietnam War but eventually resigned when his close friend Jackie Kennedy protested the killing