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The Kennedy Years
LBJ & America
Vietnam Escalation
A Decade of Change
Misc.
100
JFK's running mate in 1960.
What is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
This health insurance program for those 65 and older was established in 1965.
What is Medicare?
100
South Vietnamese rebels who wanted to be communist.
What is the Viet Cong?
100
MLK's two most famous civil right advocating pieces.
What is Letter a from Birmingham Jail and I Have a Dream
100
Widely considered the cultural highlight of the decade.
What is Woodstock?
200
This was the massive foreign policy failure of JFK's presidency.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
200
Passed by LBJ, this officially ended segregation in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
What was the resolution created in 1964?
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
200
This is what SNCC stands for.
What is Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee?
200
The year Americans set foot on the moon.
What is 1969?
300
This was established between Kremlin and the White House after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is a telecommunications hotline the Kremlin and the White House?
300
The name for Johnson's domestic policy. Daily Double: This "war" was established in 1964.
What is LBJ's Great Society? What is LBJ's War on Poverty?
300
The leader of the South Vietnam.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
300
This man was assassinated in the same year as MLK Jr.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
The name of the group that advocated black power and was prominent in the 1960's.
What was the Black Panthers?
400
The bill that outlawed segregation in interstate public accommodations on June 19, 1963.
What is Kennedy's civil rights bill?
400
Johnson created two new cabinet offices: the Department of Transportation and _________.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
400
In the eyes of congress Vietnam was considered a this.
What is military engagement approved by Congress? (Police action)
400
The writer of the Feminine Mystique.
Who was Betty Friedan?
400
Black and white Americans who deliberately broke the segregation laws of public transit systems.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
500
It was here that Kennedy was assassinated. Daily Double: The building that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy from.
What is Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas? What is the Texas School Book Depository building?
500
The name of Johnson's famous mudslinging commercial.
What is Daisy?
500
The Vietnamese New Year. Daily Double: This was highest number of soldiers in Vietnam.
What is Tet? What was 540,000?
500
The riot caused by police harassment of homosexuals in 1969.
What is the Stonewall Riots?
500
The side of the Berlin Wall that Russia controlled.
What was East Germany?