The 1950s
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Vietnam War
100
This president was in charge for the majority of the 1950s. The name must be spelled correctly.
Eisenhower
100
This lady, known for being fashionable, refused to change out of her bloody clothes for photographs after her husband's assassination.
Jackie Onassis Kennedy
100
This case declared unconstitutional the concept of separate but equal schooling, and provided the basis for future rulings and laws overturning segregation.
Bonus 25 points for the year
Brown vs. Board (of Education, Topeka Kansas).
1954
100
Leading Russia through WW2 and the beginning of the Cold War, Stalin wanted to establish this to protect Russia from aggression coming from western Europe, specifically Germany.
Buffer zone
100
This year had the peak of US troop involvement in Vietnam, and was such a tumultuous year in the US that we spend a week talking about it.
1968
200
The phrase describes the phenomena that occured during the 50s that resulted in a drain of the tax base from American cities.
White Flight
200
Betty Friedan wrote this book in 1963, which encouraged a critical view of the limited roles of women both in and our of the home.
The Feminine Mystique
200
This case protected the right to an abortion in the first trimester nationwide.
Bonus 50 points for the year.
Roe v. Wade
1973
200
Gorbachev introduced these two policies in an attempt to reform and preserve the USSR. Spelling just has to be good enough BUT...
Bonus 50 points for correct spelling on both
Perestroika
Glasnost
200
This US military operation, intended to break North Vietnamese morale by continuously bombing North Vietnam, went on for years in the early half of the war. Many US pilots were lost to North Vietnam's surface-to-air missiles (from the USSR) and ended up POWs.
Operation Rolling Thunder
300
One of two brothers serving under Eisenhower, this brother was Eisenhower's Secretary of State and a huge proponent of MAD.
Bonus 25 pts: What does MAD stand for?
John Foster Dulles
Mutually Assured Destruction
300
Phyllis Schlafly really ruined a lot of things for a lot of people when she created a right wing conservative coalition to, among other anti-progressive thing, stop the ratification of this.
ERA - Equal Rights Amendment
300
In Bakke v. University of California, Berkeley, race was allowed to be taken into consideration in college applications, but THESE were made illegal.
Racial quotas
300
Mao once tried to humiliate and gain an upper hand on this Soviet leader by forcing him to have a meeting while the two swam in a pool.
Bonus 25 points for correct spelling
Khrushchev
300
The Viet Cong was enormously successful at deciding when and where to engage with the US/ARVN forces. What is this strategy called?
Controlling the initiative
400
Eisenhower sent this division of the US army to protect the Little Rock Nine as they attempted to attend school at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
101st Airborne
400
This group formed to specifically advocate for women's rights in the 1970s, pushing for legislative change much like NAACP.
NOW or National Organization of Women
400
In the case Griswold v. Connecticut, this was made legal in marriage.
Contraception
400
When Castro rose to power, economic development did not really take place, and this remained the dominant source of Cuban income.
Sugar
400
The My Lai massacre, pentagon papers, and the secret bombing of Cambodia all contributed to American distrust of their government, known as this.
The credibility gap
500
Provide three examples of the New Look Policy in action. These should be specific events, not general ideas.
Bonus 50 pts: Include the correct year for each event
Covert Ops: CIA coup in Iran 1953, CIA coup in Guatemala 1954, U2 plane incident 1960
Use of nukes: End of Korean War, First Taiwan Strait crisis ('54), Second Taiwan Straight Crisis ('58)
500
Margaret Thatcher, the conservative prime minister of the UK in the 1980s had this nickname.
The Iron Lady
500
Pictured here, separately, with Samuel L. Jackson (Jules) and John Travolta (Vince), what is the most popular fan theory about what is in the briefcase?
Marcellus Wallace's soul
500
The Brezhnev Doctrine pledged Soviet action against any anti-communist uprisings in satellite states came after the USSR crushed an uprising in this country.
Czechoslovakia
500
This relation of Ngo Dinh Diem referred to the monk that self-immolated in protest of Diem's religious policies as a "barbeque" and stated that there was no room for the US's freedoms in South Vietnam.
Diem's sister-in-law/brother's wife