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100
This president banged Marilyn Monroe.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
Plan to provide Eastern European governments with aid so that they wouldn't fall to communism.
What is The Marshall Plan?
100
Authorized the construction of an interstate highway system.
What is the Highway Act of 1956?
100
Attack on US positions in Vietnam during the lunar new year.
What is the Tet Offensive?
100
Sharp spike in the number of births in the US in the decades after WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
200
This President had the nation saying "I Like Ike!"
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
Murder of helpless Vietnamese villagers by American troops in 1968.
What is the My Mai Massacre?
200
Unusual combination of economic slowdown and high inflation that was experienced throughout the 70’s.
What is Stagflation?
200
Policy put in place to hinder the spread of communism.
What is the Containment Policy?
200
Led the March on Washington.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This president proposed the "Fair Deal" reforms.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
300
The word for easing cold war tensions between the US and USSR.
What is Detente?
300
Helped WWII veterans transition to a peacetime economy after the war. Also known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
300
The event in which an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over Russia.
What is the U-2 Incident?
300
Controversial voice of the civil rights movement who advocated self defense and black violence.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
This president took the place of Spiro Agnew as vice president before he became president.
Who is Gerald Ford?
400
This took place after North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired upon a US destroyer.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Johnson's revolutionary reform plan.
What is Johnson's Great Society?
400
Soviet leader that replaced Joseph Stalin after his death.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is the Brown Decision?
500
This president was a former peanut farmer.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
500
The gradual decrease in US involvement with Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
500
Considered the most important achievements of the civil rights movement.
What are the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965?
500
Most dangerous part of the Cold War.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
The group that made up the majority of immigrants in the 70's?
Who are Latin Americans?