Cold War
Growing Turmoil
Civil Rights
Conservative Tide
America's Role
100
He was the president that kept a cool head during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
nWho is JFK?
100
It was the name for Lyndon B. Johnson’s collective of systems and organizations for helping combat poverty and racial inequality.
What is “The Great Society?”
100
He gave the famous “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington that helped fuel the CRM.
Who is MLK?
100
The initials OPEC stand for this!
What is Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
100
It is an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. The United States suffered an oil ______ in 1973.
What is an embargo?
200
He was the first man in space. Way to go comrade.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
200
This was the Government Act that Provided education, job training, community development community action and it was funded by Federal Government.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?
200
By denying to move on a bus, Rosa Parks sparked a “Bus Boycott” in this southern town.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
200
The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy with certain restrictions.
What is Roe V. Wade?
200
It is the tiny, oil-rich country shown here:
What is Kuwait?
300
It is the economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. It thrives on competition.
What is Capitalism?
300
It is the 3 places in America that Johnson will concentrate his new social programs and organizations.
What are the Cities, Classrooms (schools), and Countryside?
300
It is the landmark Supreme Court case that declared separate but equal schools were UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
300
It is the political belief of equality and personal freedom for everyone, often changing the current system to increase government protection of civil liberties
What is Liberalism?
300
A Russian Term meaning “openness in discussing social problems” this was a strategy employed by Mikhail Gorbachev to fix the USSR.
What is Glasnost?
400
It is the name of the theory discussed by Eisenhower stating that if the U.S. failed to stop communism from spreading into Vietnam, then the whole Southeast Asia region would turn communist too.
What is the Domino Effect (theory)?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
It is the School where 4 students were killed in a anti-war protest.
400
It is the “equal protection” amendment, which was used in front of the Supreme Court to argue for integrated schools.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
He was the sole democrat president from 1969-1993...
400
This is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries. It’s why you see Starbucks in Mexico and Tim Horton’s in the US.
What is NAFTA?
500
These were the First Suburbs in America, outside of major cities and started the suburban trend. They were easily affordable because loans were easy to get and backed by the US federal govt.
What are Levittowns?
500
The was a federal program devised by Johnson’s administration to help young people find jobs.
What is Job Corps?
500
This civil rights leader was shot and killed in front of his house. He is mentioned in song by both Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.
Who is Medger Evers?
500
It is the political belief of preserving traditional moral values by restricting personal freedoms and encouraging prosperity through economic freedom.
What is conservatism
500
Mikhail Gorbachev announced on television that the Soviet Union has dissolved on this day in 1991.
What is Christmas Day?