Who's Who
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
In a letter to Ngo Dinh Diem – the new Prime Minister of the Bao Dai government on October 23, 1954, promised American support to his government to ensure a non-communist Vietnam. Following through on that commitment, American aid to South Vietnam began as early as in January, 1955
The divider built between east and west Berlin that is also part of the Iron curtain.
What is the Berlin Wall?
What was the first animal they send to the moon before the humans ?
What is a monkey or what is a dog?
A monkey called Albert 1 became the first monkey launched into space on June 11, 1948.; These were just suborbital flights, though. The first animal to actually go into orbit was the dog Laika, launched on board the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft on November 3, 1957.Feb 13, 2009
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to make room for white passengers when the bus driver ordered her to.
A revolutionary symbol worn by hippies to express their post-war feelings.
What is the peace sign?
o The president who came in office after John F Kennedy was assassinated
Lyndon B Johnson
A failed military invasion of Cuba, During Kennedy Administration, undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro.
What is Russia?
12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school
The band that first came into the U.S. in 1964 that led to an explosion in varieties of rock. Also know as the fab four.
Who are The Beatles?
o Who is said to have shot the President
What is Lee Harvey Oswald
The Cold War was a loing geopolitical (global event), ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the cold war?
(c. 1947 – 1991)
The famous speech given in Washington D.C. by a Civil Rights activist on August 28th, 1963.
What is the I Have a Dream Speech?
A woman's role in the early 1960s.
What is a housewife?
Christian missionary noted for his exploits smuggling Bibles to communist countries in the height of the Cold War, a feat that has earned him the nickname "God's smuggler."
Who is Brother Andrew
Began on October 15, 1962 When President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile crisis?
October 16, 1962 – October 28, 1962
Usually Peaceful tactic used by black activists where they use whites only amenities.
What are sit-ins?
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. They used “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. The groups were confronted by arresting police officers—as well as horrific violence from white protesters—along their routes, but also drew international attention to their cause..
o Founded by 1966 - A Black nationalist party who believed that black people should govern and defend themselves against racism in America.
What is The Black Panther Party
More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in this War.
An act that was passed July 2nd, 1964, and was crucial in achieving full legal equality?
What was the Civil Rights Act?
Who gave this speech "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…"?
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?