POP CULTURE/SPORTS
Name the 5 members of the Simpsons Family
Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa, Maggie (Baby)
The United States used ____________________________________, a toxic herbicide to kill humans and vegetation during the Vietnam War. .
Agent Orange
An African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Rosa Parks
A Supreme Court case that declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
Brown vs Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous ____________ speech calling for racial equality.
I Have a Dream
What is the highest selling album of all time?
Thriller - Micheal Jackson
_________________________ was a failed attempt by the U.S. supported exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist government in Cuba in 1961
Bay of Pigs
A law that protected Black Americans’ right to vote by eliminating discriminatory practices like literacy tests.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Name a Civil Rights leader that was assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Fred HamptonWhen Civil Rights Activists rode interstate buses into the South to challenge segregation laws, often facing violence.
Freedom Rides
Which country won the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
____________________________ was a military alliance created in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies in response to the formation and expansion of NATO.
Warsaw Pact
A law that banned discrimination in housing based on race, religion, or national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The brutal killing of a 14-year-old Black boy in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman; it shocked the nation and energized the Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till Murder
A landmark law that banned segregation in public places and employment discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What were the 6 nba teams that Shaquille O'Neal played on?
during the Vietnam War, at least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers
My Lai Massacre
A white supremacist attack by the KKK in Alabama that killed four Black girls, drawing national outrage.
16th St. Bombing
Baptist Church Bombing
The results were used as evidence in Brown v. Board of Education to argue that segregation harmed children psychologically.
Doll Test
Nonviolent protests where Black students sat at segregated lunch counters, refusing to leave until served.
Greensboro Sit-Ins
What 3 NFL Quarterbacks lead the league in all-time yards thrown?
Name 2 events from the Space Race
Yuri Gagarin in Space
Apollo II orbits the moon
Neil Armstrong on Moon
Black students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas, facing hostility and requiring federal troop protection.
The students had to be escorted to class via US ARMY
Little Rock Nine
Plessy vs. Ferguson
It became famous for the violent clashes between anti–Vietnam War protesters and police outside the convention. The chaos, shown on national TV, exposed deep divisions in the United States over the Vietnam War and damaged public trust in government.
1968 Democratic National Convention