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The U.S. entered this conflict to prevent the spread of communism in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
100
This was the zenith of the 1960's counterculture movement.
What is Woodstock?
100
This Supreme Court decision protected women's individual rights over states' rights when it ruled states could not prevent a woman from an abortion within the first trimester.
What is Roe v. Wade.
100
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: 1) collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; 2) negotiation; 3) self-purification; and 4) direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham … Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States.
What is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This was one of the most tense decisions of JFK's political career, but allowed him to show that he would not back down to the USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
This organization greatly contribute to growing fear of communist infiltration of American society.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
200
This event triggered the gay rights movement in the late 60's.
What is the Stonewall Riots?
200
The question "What did the president know and when did he know it" had to do with this scandal.
What is Watergate?
200
In my opinion the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with Communists.…I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy.
What is Joseph McCarthy?
200
Who said this? "For in your time we have the opportunity to move…upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time."
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
This shift in society represented the biggest change towards cultural conformity.
What is suburban growth?
300
This law ended legal segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
This term was used by Nixon to describe his supporters.
What is the Silent Majority?
300
I don’t mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I’m nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you’ve made me go insane, and I’m not responsible for what I do.
What is Malcom X?
300
This law promoted gender equality by requiring equal opportunities in educational programs for both sexes.
What is Title IX?
400
This was designed to provide relief funds to damaged European nations in the hopes that a stable economy would prevent communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
Sustained bombing missions of North Vietnam began in 1965 as part of this American mission in the Vietnam War.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
400
This caused the protest resulting in the Kent State Massacre.
What is Reagan's invasion of Cambodia?
400
IT FOLLOWS THAT with education, this Court has made segregation and inequality equivalent concepts. They have equal rating, equal footing, and if segregation thus necessarily imports inequality, it makes no great difference whether we say that the Negro is wronged because he is segregated, or that he is wronged because he received unequal treatment... I would like to say that each lawyer on the other side has made it clear as to what the position of the state was on this, and it would be all right possibly but for the fact that this is so crucial. There is no way you can repay lost school years.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
She wrote the "Feminist Mystique."
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
Alan Ginsburg and other represented this artistic movement of the 1950's.
What is Beat poetry?
500
This student group was a primary counterculture movement pushing for change and the end to the Vietnam War.
What is Students for a Democratic Society?
500
Nixon negotiated this agreement with Russia which reduced the number of weapons both countries were building-up.
What is (SALT I) Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I?
500
"In Asia, as elsewhere, the forces of the modern world are shaking old ways and uprooting ancient civilizations. There will be turbulence and struggle and even violence. Great social change—as we see in our country now—does not always come without conflict.”
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
Every AP student should be doing this on a nightly basis until next Friday.
What is studying (I would also accept weeping uncontrollably)?