Kennedy Years
This is the city where JFK was assassinated.
What is Dallas?
This is the line that divided North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
This was launched in Greensboro, NC by 4 college students.
What was the sit-in movement?
Ho Chi Minh originally petitioned this American president during the Versailles Conference at the end of WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This was the foreign policy started by the "Long Telegram" that stated the US would not intervene with existing Communist states, but would prevent it from spreading elsewhere.
What is Containment?
These are the names of the Cuban Dictator and Soviet leader who were our enemies during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev?
When this country entered the war to help North Korea, it was a turning point.
What is China?
This was the movement for Black separatism that gained momentum in the mid-1960s.
What was Black Power?
This is the name for the guerilla warriors who fought against the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Joseph McCarthy was a little known Senator from this state.
What is Wisconsin?
This is the number of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
What is 1,400?
This was the name of the General who was fired by Harry Truman in a very unpopular decision at this time.
Who is MacArthur?
This was the name given for the group of students who attended, and desegregated, Central High School in Arkansas.
What was the Little Rock Nine?
This was the name for a series of air raids and cluster bomb missions carried out by the US early in the Vietnam War.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
Who were the Rosenbergs?
The New Frontier agenda aimed to improve these three areas of American life.
What was education, health care, urban development?
This is the nickname given to the Korea War by historians.
What was the forgotten war?
This last just over one year, and was MLK Jr.'s first entry into the spotlight.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This was the location of the French defeat in the French-Indochina War.
What was Dien Bien Phu?
McCarthy's big mistake was when he started to look for Soviet spies within this group of people.
What is the US Army?
This was one reason many Americans did not want to vote for Kennedy in 1960, but he addressed this issue directly in a speech during his campaign.
What was his religion (Roman Catholicism)?
Although peace talks started in 1951, the full treaty ending the Korean war was not signed until this year.
What was 1953?
This was the year that MLK Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
These were the two American destroyers involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
What is the Turner Joy and the Maddox?
Under the loyalty review program, this is the total number of federal employees who were investigated.
What is 6 million?