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The 1950s and 60s
Postwar stuff
Cold blooded
More postwar
Blow the safe!
100
Famous argument between Vice President Nixon and Khrushchev over which economic system is better.
What are the Kitchen Debates?
100
Segregationist governor of Alabama who promises "segregation...tomorrow...and forever!"
Who is George Wallace?
100
Policy of stopping communism wherever it tried to spread by using whatever means necessary after 1946.
What is containment?
100
Event where anti-war riots break out in Chicago during a presidential election year.
What is the Democratic National Convention (1968)?
100
Agency that gave president LBJ info that Nixon was interfering with Vietnam bombing halt talks.
What is the FBI (also accept US Embassy)?
200
Group that helped argue in famous legal cases against segregation, including Mendez v. Westminster and Brown v. Board of Education.
What is the NAACP?
200
The official name of East Germany.
What is the German Democratic Republic (GDR)?
200
Term for the group that was banned from working in Hollywood after HUAC accused them of communist loyalty.
What is the Hollywood Ten (Blacklist)?
200
The segregation case in California that paved the way for African Americans involved THIS former governor of California?
Who is Earl Warren?
200
The true reason Mr. Nixon resigned the presidency on August 8, 1974.
What is full impeachment?
300
Organization headed by Martin Luther King that orchestrated non-violent protest throughout the South.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
300
The acronym that "NATO" stands for.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeted which high profile sector of the U.S. in 1947?
What is Hollywood (motion-pictures)?
300
Event that precipitates race riots all over the midwest in the spring of 1968.
What is the murder of MLK?
300
Nickname for the "History of U.S. Decision Making in Vietnam;" leaked to the press and infuriated Mr. Nixon.
What is the "Pentagon Papers?"
400
The U.S. promises to secretly do this in exchange for Russia removing missiles from Cuba.
What is remove missiles from Turkey (never invade Cuba)?
400
Plan that gave billions to Europe to help them rebuild (and hopefully avoid the commies).
What is the Marshall Plan (ERP)?
400
Name for the period of paranoia/hysteria that included redbaiting and accusing Americans of communism after the war.
What is the Second Red Scare?
400
The CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of this country in 1954, because he offended the United Fruit Company.
What is Guatemala?
400
This is what the acronym, "CREEP," stood for in the 1970s.
What is the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon)?
500
This treaty that was a direct result of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (of 1963)?
500
Nicknamed, "the G.I. Bill" because it granted a new lease on life to men and women in uniform after WWII.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944?
500
The year that Russia gets atomic weapons and China falls to communism.
What is 1949?
500
The last name of the brothers who had personal ties to the company losing money in Guatemala in 1954.
What is DULLES (Alan and John Foster)?
500
Person who's psychiatrist's office was broken into in 1971 to discredit him.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?