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A Palestinian of Jordanian citizenship who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Who is Sirhan Sirhan?
100
Was a series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959.
What is the Kitchen Debate of 1959?
100
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1947.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
A United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act of 1946?
100
Was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
The move of white city-dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of minorities.
What is white flight?
200
An American diplomat, political scientist, and historian. He was known best as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War on which he later reversed himself.
Who is George Kennan?
200
A person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race.
What is Freedom Riders?
200
Was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
What is The Tet Offensive?
200
An American writer, activist, and feminist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Who is Betty Friedan?
300
The American automobile was the most important symbol of prosperity.
What is 1950's symbol of prosperity?
300
A letter written in January 1958 by carson's friend Olga Owens Huckins to Boston Herald. It describe the death of birds around her property caused by DDT. (DDT was used to kill mosquitos)
What is Silent Spring and DDT?
300
The federal government installed new registrars in any state that refused to register African Americans.
What is 1965 Voting Rights Act?
300
The foundation of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War (1947–1989); the strategy of confining communism to the Soviet Union and blocking the expansion of Soviet influence and power.
What is containment?
300
A negotiation tactic named after General Electric's former vice president Lemuel Boulware, who pioneered the strategy. In negotiations with labor unions, it is an offer which is ultimate and to which no further revisions will be made.
What is Boulwarism?
400
Recommended a significant strengthing in defensive military capabilities. Made after the discovery of the number of soviet nuclear weapons.
What is the Gaither Report of 1957?
400
Mass killing of 500 unarmed civilian in South Vietnam.
What is My Lai Massacre of 1968?
400
Showed how advertisers were using psychology to subtly manipulate the desires and behaviors of American consumers.
What is Hidden Persuaders?
400
Gave the president a black check and free rein in Vietnam.
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Popular game show that would prepare contestants by giving them answers in advance and teaching them to act surprise in front of the camera. This TV show was later canceled. A congressional investigation revealed this to the audience, making them lose faith in television shows.
What is The quiz show Twenty-One?
500
Russian born writer in America who wrote Atlas Shrugged. Developed philosophical system called objectivity.
Who is Ayn Rand?
500
Laws that prohibit union security agreements between unions and employees.
What is Right to work?
500
The governor of Arkansas who stood against segregation in the little rock crisis.
What is Orval Faubus?
500
Cheap mass produced suburban houses for the returning veterans.
What is Levittown?
500
8th studio album of the beetles
What is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?