Cold War
Soviet Russia develops an atomic bomb and China's communists win their civil war, making this year a turning point in the Cold War
1949
This island nation becomes embroiled in a crisis between the US and Russia that nearly brings the world to an end in 1962.
Cuba
McCarthyism or the hunt for Communists in the government and media is a reaction to a second version of this colorful fright.
Red Scare
Four little girls are killed in a bombing of a church in this city by a member of the Klan.
Birmingham, AL
After the Cuyahoga river set fire 13 times and an oil spill ruined more than 30 miles of California coastline, Richard Nixon proposed a series of laws that created this government department.
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
The Vietnamese start fighting for their independence during this major world conflict.
WWII
On the evening after Martin Luther King's assassination, this musician played a concert in Boston that was played on the radio stations in the city as well. It is said that this "godfather of soul" saved the city from riots that plagued other major cities after Dr. King's death.
James Brown
The cold war never had a direct conflict between the Russians and the Americans, but smaller wars where one side or the other fought a smaller country, the first one of these start in 1950 in this Asian country.
Korea
Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas is the site of this major event of the 1960's.
After Truman, this famous WWII general becomes president.
Eisenhower
This was characterized by SNCC and CORE activists' journey into the South to test the desegregation of bus stations across the South. They would encounter violence and arrests along the way.
Freedom Rides
Operation Menu was the name for America's illegal bombing of these two countries during the Vietnam War.
Laos and Cambodia
Protest against the war reaches tragic heights at this university in Ohio, where four protesters are shot to death by National Guard soldiers.
Kent State
This compound is present in leaves during the spring and summer, it is responsible for photosynthesis. As the seasons change, there is less of it in leaves and they change colors and fall off.
Chlorophyll
This plan gave financial aid to European countries in need of assistance to rebuild after WWII. Taking the money meant aligning yourself with the West and not the Russians.
Marshall Plan
This major piece of legislation is passed in 1965 after the March from Selma to Montgomery.
Levittown on Long Island, NY becomes the first planned this. It will start decades of "white flight" out of urban areas.
Suburb.
Claudette Colvin was a dark skinned pregnant 16 year old who refused to give up her seat on a bus. She was arrested. The NAACP felt that they needed a more respectable person for their challenge of segregation on buses, so this woman followed in Colvin's footsteps and became the face of the movement.
Rosa Parks
Nixon's re-election committee sent former spies to break into this building to spy on and steal documents from the Democratic National Committee.
Watergate
US involvement in Vietnam goes from military advisors to hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground under this president.
Lyndon Johnson
Alien sightings around this New Mexico town could be attributed to its proximity to a number of top secret military bases where they tried out new types of military hardware and planes.
Roswell, NM
This German city was split between the Russians and America and its allies. It was deep within East Germany, the Russian controlled part of Germany.
Berlin
Richard Nixon appears to lose the presidential debate in 1960 because of this. People who listened to the debate on the radio felt like he won.
Sweating, appearances, body language, looking like a creep
Soldiers returning home from WWII and Korea and all veterans afterwards are the beneficiaries of this bill that gives free education, healthcare, and low cost home loans to veterans.
GI Bill
Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was to appeal to this group of voters who had become discouraged with their party after the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
White Southern Democrats
This man led the Viet Minh (North Vietnam's military & government) until his death in 1969
Ho Chi Minh
Neil Armstrong lands on the moon during this NASA mission.
Apollo 11
This communist country joins the fighting in the Korean War.
China
This man assassinated John F Kennedy*.
Lee Harvey Oswald
A bus boycott in this southern city introduces Martin Luther King to the nation.
Montgomery, AL
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Shwerner were killed by the police and the KKK in this state as they tried to register African Americans to vote.
Mississippi
Nixon's approach to government was called this, returning power to the states.
"New Federalism"
This was a defeat for the US and S. Vietnam during the Vietnamese lunar new year was a series of surprise attacks that included the North Vietnamese capturing the US Embassy in Saigon.
Tet Offensive
This condiment from the Indian subcontinent is made in a wide variety of forms, such as a tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish, yogurt, or curd, cucumber, spicy coconut, spicy onion, or mint dipping sauce.
Chutney
This American general, who had been a hero of WWII in the Pacific, wants to drop atomic bombs on China. He is fired.
Lyndon Johnson wants to carry on the legacy of the New Deal with a series of political reforms and programs aimed at eliminating poverty. He calls his domestic policy this.
The Great Society
Fighting between France and this country comes to an end in the fifties after the battle of Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam
This child was brutally murdered in the summer of 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white teenage girl. His mother showed his body in an open casket to show the world the results of white supremacist violence.
Emmitt Till
King me! Richard Nixon was unkind to his dog, named after this game.
Checkers
This chemical was used to strip the leaves off of jungle trees that were utilized to hide communist guerilla fighters in Vietnam. It caused cancer and birth defects for the Vietnamese and the American soldiers who handled the chemicals as well.
Agent Orange
How old is Mr. Given?
41