This failed invasion of Cuba by US backed Cuban exiles led the Soviets to believe that JFK was weak and indecisive. It also won JFK numerous Cuban enemies.
What is The Bay of Pigs invasion?
100
1965 riots in this Los Angeles suburb/neighborhood was the first in series of three long hot summers of violence in American cities.
What is Watts?
100
The environmental movement was sparked by this Rachel Carson book.
What is Silent Spring?
100
This confrontational approach by John Foster Dulles was supposed to prevent more limited wars like Korea and assure the Soviets of American guarantees to protect Western Europe.
What is brinksmanship?
100
He was the leader and father figure of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
This organization created under JFK sent Americans worldwide on missions to help underdeveloped countries.
What is the Peace Corps?
200
This Governor of Alabama is famous for blocking integration of schools and proclaiming "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever..."
Who is George Wallace?
200
This movement reclaimed abandoned federal land and occupied it, like Alcatraz for example.
What is AIM, the American Indian Movement?
200
This "race" music was called the devil's music and seen as a sign of white youth rebellion.
What is rock-n-roll music?
200
This American President is credited with "escalating" the Vietnam conflict into an American war.
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?
300
This was one of the first agreements on nuclear weapons. Both American and Soviets agreed to its limitations. The French did not.
What is the Test Ban Treaty?
300
This Secretary of Defense argued to both JFK and LBJ that the United States should defend South Vietnam.
Who is Robert McNamara?
300
This civil rights movement group was responsible for starting the Freedom Rides.
What is CORE, Congress on Racial Equality?
300
This Russian satellite prompted the space race.
What is Sputnik?
300
The 1963 assassination of this South Vietnamese leader led to years of instability and corruption in the South Vietnamese government.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
400
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended when the Soviets agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba and the USA agreed to withdraw missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
400
This Democratic candidate for president was assassinated after locking up his likely nomination after winning the California primary.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
400
This organization founded by Betty Friedan became the premier group of the women's rights movement.
What is NOW, the National Organization for Women
400
This Eisenhower program was a bigger public works project than any New Deal program.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
400
Nixon expanded the war into this country arguing that the US forces should be allowed to fight the NVA no matter where they are.
What is Cambodia?
500
According to the Warren Commission, this man is the lone assassin of President Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
500
This statement by the leaders of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) identified the disillusionment of the younger generation and called for more freedom.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
500
The Stonewall Riots are usually associated with this movement.
What is the Gay Rights movement?
500
In 1957, these African-American students caused controversy by trying to force integration in a public high school.
Who are the Little Rock 9?
500
This National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State pushed the policy of Vietnamization and attempted to secure a "decent interval" that concluded a peace that would allow the US to withdraw without losing face.