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This 1968 presidential candidate was attorney general under John F. Kennedy and was assassinated after winning the California Democratic primary.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy?
100
A primary cause for inflation in the U.S. during the 1970s...particularly high gas prices.
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
100
The name given to conservative Christians that supported the Republican Party in 1980. Jerry Falwell was an important leader of this group.
What is The Moral Majority?
100
A movement led by Martin Luther King to demand a voting rights bill in this Alabama town.
What is Selma, Alabama?
100
The South Vietnamese president that was widely hated in his own country and eventually assassinated in a military coup.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
A program passed as part of LBJ's Great Society that provided healthcare coverage to low income Americans.
What is Medicaid?
200
The high point of Jimmy Carter's presidency. His meetings with Egyptian president Sadat and Israeli prime minister Begin led to this landmark agreement.
What are the Camp David Accords?
200
In 1990-91, the United States (through a UN mission) liberated Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in this war or operation.
What is the Gulf War or Operation Desert Storm?
200
This group began in Oakland, California and was led by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. They advocated for black self-defense against police brutality and socialism to cure the nation's social ills.
What is the Black Panther Party?
200
Communist guerilla fighters in South Vietnam that had infiltrated the country either from the North or were native to South Vietnam.
What is the Viet Cong?
300
He ran as a third party candidate in 1968 on the American Independence Party ticket. A segregationist and the governor of Alabama, he won several southern states in the 1968 election.
Who is George Wallace?
300
One of the conspirators during the Watergate burglary and a member of CREEP, he was found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury and served 18 months in prison.
Who is John Ehrlichman?
300
This member of the of the Reagan National Security Council was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair and was found guilty of felonies in regards to the incident.
Who is Oliver North?
300
This organization was led by Stokely Carmichael and preached a message of Black Power. It was a crucial organization in registering black voters and fighting for voting rights.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
300
President Nixon secretly bombed and then invaded this country in 1970. The results of this activity led to massive student protests on America's college campuses.
What is Cambodia?
400
This loosely organized entity was symbolic of the role that young people were playing in the major cultural issues of the 1960s. They wrote the Port Huron Statement.
What is Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?
400
George Mitchell was a leader of this Native American organization that fought the U.S. government termination policy of reservations.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
400
The head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, this African-American politician ran for president in 1984.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
This city witnessed rioting over busing to integrate its schools. Busing was a policy opposed by conservative presidents like Nixon and Reagan.
What is Boston?
400
The U.S. military killed unarmed men, women, and children in this Vietnamese village in 1968. This incident led to American outrage and questioning about the purpose of the Vietnam War.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
500
Kennedy's New Frontier agenda was largely stalled in Congress. He wanted to ______________ in order to spur on the stagnant economy, but conservative Republicans denied him. His major accomplishments were ___________ and _______________.
What are tax cuts, NASA spending, and Peace Corps.
500
This incident in New York City sparked the beginning of the gay rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Riot?
500
The first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
500
In this Supreme Court decision the Court decided to uphold affirmative action in the case of college admissions. The Court ruled that a quota system to admit minority students was illegal.
What is the University of California v. Bakke?
500
This failure at a peace agreement in 1973 indicated that the United States was serious about ending its role in Vietnam. Henry Kissinger (Nixon's Secretary of State) won the Nobel Peace Prize for his attempt at an American withdrawal.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?