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Culture Pop!
The Cold Old Days
Lab Professor
Acronyms/Describe
100
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Who is Ronald Reagan?
100
This 1969 Music Festival included a number of songs and corresponding commentary denouncing the Vietnam War.
What is Woodstock?
100
Exhibits in these two cities showcased technology, infrastructure, and modern conveniences between two rival nations.
What is New York City and Moscow?
100
Participants of the Freedom Rides rode these to protest segregation.
What are buses?
100
SNCC
What is Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
200
Now I am reaching out to you for help because consumers and farm workers must stand together as one family if we are to be heard. I am not asking you to give up wine or raisins. I am asking you to give us your commitment and valuable support. I am asking you to join us now and be counted to join the growing family of individuals who will boycott grapes until the demands of decency have been met.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
200
Movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to the Future, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles portrayed these areas as sanctuary spaces from the outside world.
What are the Suburbs?
200
It was created in 1961 and met its demise in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It quickly led to the creation of these.
What are Japanese Internment Camps?
200
NATO
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Who is Gerald Ford?
300
These were the baggy outfits worn by some LA youth during WWII - making them a target for harassment and arrests.
What are zoot suits?
300
He was the Senator from Wisconsin who made a name for himself carrying around a list of known Communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
James Meredith stood face to face with Governor Ross Barnett when he attempted to register for classes at this school in 1962.
What is the University of Mississippi?
300
SDS
What are Students for a Democratic Society?
400
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
400
Berry Gordy wanted to make music that appealed to modern youth and named his record label this - in honor of Detroit's number one industry.
What is Motown?
400
The division of Germany following WWII was led by these four nations.
What are Great Britain, the United States, the USSR, and France?
400
In 1976, Rocky became an iconic American hero when he portrayed a boxer in this post-industrial city.
What is Philadelphia?
400
HUAC
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
500
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night -- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question -- "Is this all?"
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
"The Message" was a song recorded by this group in 1982.
Who is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
500
This plan provided economic support to help rebuild participating nations after WWII
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Sit-Ins in Nashville protested segregated counter service at this department store chain.
What is Woolworth's?
500
AFL-CIO
What are the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations?