Leaders
The person who won the election of 1960
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The first American astronaut in space.
Who was Alan Shepard?
Communists in South Vietnam who wanted to overthrow the non-Communist government there.
Who were the Viet Cong?
Healthcare programs created in 1965 for the elderly and low-income individuals.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
The barrier erected in 1961 by the Communist government in East Berlin to prevent movement between the two sides of the city.
What was the Berlin Wall?
Passed in 1971, it granted voting rights to citizens age 18 and older.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Broke the color barrier in MLB, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
The winner of the election of 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Act of Congress that attempted to limit the president's power to use American troops abroad.
What is the War Powers Act?
President Johnson's legislative program to end poverty and inequality.
What was the Great Society?
What is November 22, 1963?
The black seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Who was Rosa Parks?
Succeeded Kennedy as president and won the election of 1964.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Democratic presidential candidate who was assassinated in 1968
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
Nixon's plan to increase the fighting ability of the South Vietnamese army and gradually withdraw American troops from Vietnam.
What was Vietnamization?
Radical groups that hoped to use resentment of the war as a means of overthrowing established American institutions.
What was the "New Left"?
Disastrous "secret" attack on Cuba that was a great embarrassment to JFK.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
The well-known speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. in 1963.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
Two of the 3 men running for the Democratic nomination for President in 1968
Who were Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey? (need 2)
The simultaneous attack on January 31, 1968, by Communist forces in Vietnam against cities and strategic points in South Vietnam.
What was the Tet Offensive?
The first black students to attend Central High School, Arkansas, in September 1957.
Who were the "Little Rock Nine"?
The court case that determined that "separate but equal" had no place in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?