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100
This crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the installation of the "hot line."
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
He was the first black major-league baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
President Kennedy was assassinated in this city.
What is Dallas?
100
President Johnson used this "event" to send more troops to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
100
He was the first American to fly in space.
Who was Alan B. Shepard Jr.?
200
He became dictator of Cuba in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
This minister began his civil rights campaign by helping to organize a boycott of the city bus system.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
He won the closest Presidential race of the 20th century up to that time.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
This event "exposed Congress's refusal to allow the American military to take an offensive position."
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
This was built by several large oil companies to extend from the North Slope to the southern shore of Alaska.
What is the Trans-Alaska Pipeline?
300
The Communists built this in 1961. It stood as a grim monument to the failure of Communism.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This court case called for the desegregation of all public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
300
These are the characteristics of some Peace Corps volunteers that your book claims did not reflect American ideals and principles.
What is support of state-sponsored birth control, distrust of Christianity, disregard for private property and dependence on government socialism?
300
He negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
300
He was the first man to "walk on the moon."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
400
This is the organization of Middle East countries that export oil.
What is OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
400
She led the movement to remove prayer and Bible reading from our public schools.
Who is Madalyn Murray O'Hair?
400
This is what President Johnson called his welfare programs.
What is the "Great Society?"
400
Four students were killed in violent protests against the war at this University.
What is Kent State?
400
This group defended the extreme views of atheist, socialist and Communist minorities.
What is the ACLU?
500
This French word, meaning "relax tensions," described Nixon's policy shift toward the Soviets after the withdrawal from Vietnam.
What is "detente?"
500
This action officially banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
This action officially lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
500
These countries also fell to Communism after the fall of South Vietnam.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
500
He became the first black associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?