JFK Years
The name of the goals JFK hoped to accomplish during his Presidency.
What is New Frontier?
LBJ’s domestic agenda was known as this, emphasizing the need for economic and social reforms like education and healthcare.
What is Great Society?
This chemical weapon, used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to clear jungles, caused severe health problems for both soldiers and civilians.
What is Agent Orange?
This political strategy, supported by President Nixon in the late 1960s, aimed to reduce U.S. troops in Vietnam while increasing the responsibility of South Vietnamese forces, which was an effort to pull the US out of conflict in Vietnam.
The first REAL astronaut, shot into space by the US.
Who is Ham?
JFK was assassinated in this city and in this state on November 22, 1963.
What is Dallas, Texas?
LBJ escalated U.S. military involvement in this country, leading to a controversial and prolonged conflict.
What is Vietnam?
This event, occurring in 1968, marked a turning point in the Vietnam War, as North Vietnamese forces launched a surprise attack on over 100 cities across South Vietnam.
What is Tet Offensive?
Many people engaged in this act in order to defy the draft, such as fleeing to Canada.
What is draft dodging?
This was the only US President who was given the chance to become a D1 football player, but chose to pursue law school instead.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This crisis in 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war after the Soviet Union installed missiles in this country.
What is Cuba?
These 1965 programs, part of LBJ’s “War on Poverty", aimed to provide healthcare for the elderly and the poor/disabled.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?
This group, supported by North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government and U.S. forces, using guerilla tactics.
What are the Vietcong?
This infamous incident in 1968 involved U.S. soldiers massacring hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, further fueling anti-war sentiment.
What is My Lai Massacre?
This US president graduated from high school at the age of 15.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This 1961 initiative, aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's government in Cuba, ended in disaster for theUS.
What is Bay of Pigs?
This landmark civil rights legislation, passed in 1964, outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This controversial operation, conducted by the U.S. military, involved large-scale bombing campaigns in North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to disrupt supply lines.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
In 1969, this music festival became a symbol of the counterculture movement, with performances by artists like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, many of whom were outspoken against the Vietnam War.
What is Woodstock?
This is the only US President to have owned two tiger cubs as a kid, which were gifted to him as a present from the Sultan of Oman.
Who is Martin van Buren?
JFK's program for space exploration set this ambitious goal by the end of the 1960s.
This controversial incident happens in 1964, and gives LBJ an uncomfortable amount of power to stop communism.
What is Gulf of Tonkin?
The name of the Communist party that commits the horrific Cambodian genocide that slaughters over 2 million innocent Cambodians.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This university saw 4 students killed by the national guard during an anti-war protest, sparking mass amounts of outrage around the nation.
What is Kent State?
This is the name of a mossball who lives on Ms. Huskey's microwave at home.
Who is Marimo?