People
Cold War
Vietnam
Civil Rights
The Space Race
Things
100
I was the person who assassinated President Kennedy.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
100
Hostility between two superpowers was known as the cold war. Name the superpowers.
Who was the United States and the Soviet Union?
100
Americans were fighting both the North Vietnamese and pro-Communist South Vietnamese guerrillas called "what".
Who were the Viet Cong?
100
Baptist Pastor who became the leader against the Montgomery's bus system. Organized the SCLC.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
What was the name of the Space Shuttle that exploded after liftoff in 1983?
What was Challenger?
100
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution did what for the presidential election rules.
What was declared no one could be elected president more than two times?
200
Harry S Truman's middle name.
What was S?
200
President Truman responded to the Soviet presence in Eastern Europe with the policy of what?
What is containment?
US Policy to prevent the spread of communism; further communist aggression would be resisted; communism must be contained to its new boundaries.
200
The Paris Peace Talks began with a heated discussion over what critical topic?
What was the shape of the table to be used?
200
August 1963 - 200,000 people gathered for a protest called?
What was the March on Washington?
200
Who was the first American sent into space?
Who was Alan Shepard Jr.?
200
In 1950 Diners Club released the first "what" and by 1965 more than a million people had one.
What was the credit card?
300
Famous African-American seamstress who refused to give up her seat for a white man.
Who was Rosa Parks?
300
In 1948 Congress passed this European Recovery Program, better known as?
It was named after this man.
What was the Marshall Plan?
300
The president who reduced the number of American troops in Vietnam and left the bulk of the fighting to the South Vietnamese.
Who was Richard Nixon?
300
In 1964 this group in Mississippi brutally murdered 3 civil rights workers who were trying to help black Americans register to vote.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Who successfully launched the 1st satellite in Space?
50 bonus points if you know the name.
Who were the Russians?
What was the Spitnik I?
300
A government healthcare insurance program establisted in 1965 to help elderly people pay for medical care.
What was Medicare?
400
I criticized President Truman publicly and was fired from my role as head of UN military forces.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
400
In 1952 what was developed as a more powerful weapon than the atomic bomb?
What was the Hydrogen Bomb?
400
The War Powers Act of 1973 required the President to notify Congress of what within 48 hours?
What was if he committed US troops to military actions and withdraw the troops after 60 days unless Congress approved.
400
Legislation passed to guarantee the rights of black Americans.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
NASA is the acronym for?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
400
I was a senator assassinated in a California hotel during my presidential campaign.
Who was Senator Robert Kennedy?
500
I was the corrupt dictator on the island of Cuba in 1959.
Who was Fidel Castro?
500
Was know as the anti-communist cold-warrior?
Who was Richard Nixon?
500
Conservatives accused this group of sapping American support for the war by being unsympathetic and even distortion.
Who was the media?
500
Black Power advocates had lost faith that the government would protect their rights and determined they would defend their rights by what?
What was any means necessary?
500
What Neil Armstrong said when he stepped on the moon.
What was "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"?
500
"Do your own thing", "all you need is love" and "don't trust anyone over thirty" were all simplistic expressions of what culture?
What was Counterculture?