Vietnam War
This was the main goal of the U.S. in Vietnam: to stop the spread of this government system
What is communism
This President was blamed for the war getting worse and decided not to run for re-election in 1968.
Who was Lyndon B Johnson
This 3-word slogan was used by hippies who wanted to end the war.
What is Make Love Not War
This was the main "villain" country that the U.S. was competing with for global power during the Cold War.
This 1969 event was so big that the highways in New York had to be closed down because 400,000 people showed up for "3 days of peace and music.“
what was Woodstock
This 1964 legislation is often called a "Blank Check" because it allowed the Executive branch to escalate the war without a formal declaration from Congress.
This was the name of the office building where the Watergate break-in happened.
What was watergate hotel
This is the city where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
what is Washington D.C
This was the specific "race" to see which country could be the first to put a man on the moon.
What was the space race
Before they were the most famous band in the world, this group was originally called "The Quarrymen."
Who were the Beatles
This 1954 conference split Vietnam at the 17th Parallel and was supposed to lead to national elections that never happened.
What are the Geneva accords
After Nixon resigned, this man became the only President who was never actually elected by the people.
Who was Gerald Ford
This is the sociological term for the massive cultural divide that opened up between the WWII "Greatest Generation" and their rebellious "Baby Boomer" children.
What is the Generation Gap
This was the fear that if Vietnam "fell" to Communism, all the countries around it would fall too, like a row of blocks.
What is the Domino Theory
This popular 1970s hairstyle—where the hair is short in the front but long in the back—became a massive fashion trend despite being widely mocked later on.
What is the mullet
This 1968 surprise attack by the North took place during a major Vietnamese holiday and convinced many Americans that the war could not be won.
What was the tet offensive
This was the main reason the U.S. supported the "Coup" against Ngo Dinh Diem—they thought he was too ___.
Corrupt/ unpopular
This 1973 Supreme Court ruling used the "Right to Privacy" (found in the 14th Amendment) to legalize a woman's right to choose an abortion.
What is Roe V. Wade
This was the name of the Soviet Union's first satellite. Its launch in 1957 made Americans realize they were losing the Space Race.
What is Sputnik
In 1975, a businessman invented this "pet" that came in a cardboard box with air holes and a manual on how to train it. It required zero feeding or cleaning.
What is the pet rock
This was President Nixon’s plan to gradually bring U.S. troops home while training the South Vietnamese army to do more of the fighting.
What was vietnamization
When the government says one thing and the TV news shows something different, it creates this "gap."
What is the credibility gap
This radicalized wing of the anti-war movement believed that peaceful protest had failed and that the "system" needed to be completely dismantled through revolution.
What was the new left
This was the main U.S. strategy during the Cold War: the goal was not to destroy Communism, but to stop it from spreading to new countries.
What is containment
In the early 1960s, the U.S. government was so worried about a nuclear attack that they created a cartoon character named "Bert the Turtle" to teach school children this three-word safety drill.