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100

This is the battle where Ho Chi Minh defeated the French.

What is Dien Bien Phu?

100

He was the president when the Cold War began.

Who was Truman?

100

He became the communist dictator of Cuba.

Who was Fidel Castro?

100

Senator Joseph McCarthy found this many communists working in the federal government.

What is 0?

100

This was Martin Luther King's four point philosophy.

What is nonviolence, economics, fill the jails and media.

100

These were the three results of the Bay of Pigs.

What is Kennedy distrusts the CIA, Robert Kennedy becomes the presidents top advisor, and the US sends more soldiers to Vietnam.

100

Berlin was located in _________  Germany and the Americans controlled the _____________ half of the city.

What is East and western.

200

This is the leader who America put in charge of South Vietnam.

What is Ngo Dinh Diem?

200

NATO is the US and Western Euopean countries combining their militaries.  What do those letters stand for?

What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

200

This generation had a huge influence on both the 1950s and 1960s

Who are the Baby Boomers?

200

McCarthyism ended for the following two reasons.

What is people realized that McCarthy was lying and Eisenhower, who Americans greatly trusted, was elected president?

200

The letters NAACP stand for this and this was their method in attacking segregation.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and through court cases?

200

These were the three reuslts of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What tis better relations with Russia, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and Khruschev replace by Brezchnev.

200

Stalin's attempt to starve out the West Berliners was called this.

What is the Berlin Blockade?


300

The Geneva Accords did these two things.

What is divided Vietnam in half and in 2 years there will be elections to unify the country?

300

When NATO was formed, Russia and Eastern European countries created this military alliance.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

300

The 60s counter-rule for "control your emotions."

What is "let it all hang out."

300

He was the longtime director of the FBI who kept files on millions of Americans.

Who is J. Edgar Hoover?

300

The letters SCLC stand for this and this was their method in attacking segregation.

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and through nonviolent protest.

300

After protests in this city, President Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act.

What is Birmingham?

300

This was the American response to the Berlin Blockade.

What is the Berlin Airlift?

400

This was American foreign policy from the end of World War II through Vietnam.

What is Containment?

400

After the Chinese Revolution this country was recognized by the US as China.

What is Taiwan?

400

This was the leader that was in charge of North Vietnam.

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

400

In the 1950s the economy was so good it was called this.

What is the Age of Consumerism?

400

He proposed the Civil Rights Act and he got it passed.

Who are Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

400

This was the first official government investigation of Kennedy's assassinationa and what conclusion did they come to.

What is the Warren Commission and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

400

The Voyting Rights Act was passed after a 52-mile march from ______________ to _______________.

What is Selma to Montgomery?

500

This theory beleived that if Vietnam went communist other countries would fall to communism too.

What was the Domino Theory?

500

These were the three results of the Korean War.

What is it's easier to go to war, it is still going on and it is underrated.

500

The Supreme Court in the Brown Decision ruled that segretated ____________ were unconstituional.

What are schools?

500

These were baby boomers who began to rebel and this was their music of choice.

Who were the Beatniks and what is Rock and Roll?

500

The Till case was a Mississippi murder trial and the overall result was this?

What is it is the beginning of a mass movement.

500

He killed Oswald.

Who was Jack Ruby?

500

The 1960 presidential election was the first election to use television and debates and featured these two candidates.

Who were Senator John F. Kennedy for the Democrats and Vice-President Richard Nixon for the Republicans.