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2. What was the name of the secret government program to develop an atomic bomb?

3. Manhattan Project

4. What is the name for a missile that is able to deliver an atomic warhead to a target on the opposite side of the globe?

5. ICBM

6. What would be the first sign that an atomic weapon had been detonated?

7. EMP

8. This senator from Wisconsin launched a campaign to root out communists in American society

9. Joseph McCarthy

10. This was that name of the organization in the House of Representatives which held hearings about potential communist threats in American life.

11. HUAC

12. The hippies of the counterculture attained higher spiritual enlightenment through the use of...

13. LSD

14. One of the beneficiaries of the JFK assassination was the Vice President of the United States who was...

15. Lyndon Baines Johnson

16. The Warren Commission placed the blame for the JFK assassination solely on the shoulders of...

17. Lee Harvey Oswald

18. What was the collective name of America’s first astronauts?

19. Mercury 7

20. What event is usually pointed to as being the “end of the sixties” a time of peace and harmony...

21. Manson Murders

22. What was the name of the guerrilla group that operated in South Vietnam during the war?

23. Vietcong

24. What was the name of the bombing campaign unleashed on North Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

25. Operation Rolling Thunder

26. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave this U.S. president the authority he needed to drastically increase our involvement in Vietnam?

27. LBJ

28. The 1968 Democratic National Convention, where protestors were beaten in the streets on television, was held in the city of...

29. Chicago

30. Why did college enrollment dramatically increase during the period of the Vietnam War?

31. College students got draft deferments

32. What movement did Stokely Carmichael help create?

33. Black Power

34. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was precipitated by the actions of...

35. Rosa Parks

36. The March to Selma was over this civil rights issue...

37. Voting Rights

38. James Meredith is famous for leading the push to desegregate...

39. Colleges and universities

40. This is the name of a group of militant blacks, based in Oakland, CA, that focused on armed resistance and armed protection of black inner city neighborhoods.

41. Black Panthers

42. This is the name of the Soviet leader who oversaw the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union itself

43. Mikhail Gorbachev

44. The decade of the 1970s is sometimes referred to as...

45. The Me Decade

46. The Decade of the 1980s is sometimes referred to as...

47. The Decade of Greed or the Decade of Excess

48. How did Steve Jobs and Bill Gates transform American life starting in the 1980s...

49. They gave rise to the computer (digital) age

50. What presidential safeguard did Nixon call upon in order to keep the White House tapes out of the hands of federal prosecutors...

51. Executive Privilege