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Final Jeopardy

2. The rights that countries guarantee
their citizens.

3. What are civil rights?

4. To remove from power

5. What is overthrow?

6. Competition between the U.S.
and Soviet Union to send people
into outer space.

7. What is a space race?

8. A government program to help those in need.

9. What is welfare?

10. .
Ending the separation of people by
race or ethnicity.

11. What is desegregation?

12. African American woman who refused to give up her
seat on a crowded bus and go to the back.

13. Who was Rosa Parks?

14. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and inspired many people with his courage and powerful speeches.

15. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

16. He said, “… ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

17. Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK?

18. He was the first person to orbit
the earth in a space capsule during the “Space Race”.

19. Who is Yuri Gagarin ?

20. He created the Peace Corps, a program that sent volunteers to teach children, grow food, and help start businesses in countries
around the world.

21. Who was President John F. Kennedy?

22. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in
this way of bringing change without
using violence.

23. Who was nonviolent protest?

24. Successful non-violent event
that led to the United States Supreme Court declaring that
school segregation was illegal under the Constitution.

25. What was Brown vs. Board
of Education?

26. Successful non-violent event that led
to the Supreme Court ruling that
segregation on buses was illegal.

27. What was the Montgomery Bus
Boycott?

28. Small groups of civil rights protesters
that peacefully tried to show that
segregation wasn’t legal anymore. .

29. Who were the ‘Freedom Riders’?

30. Non-violent protest that was used in
1960 by four African American college
students to challenge the inequality
of “whites only” sections in restaurants.

31. What was a ‘sit-in’?

32. They won the race to send the first
person into space.

33. Who was ‘the Soviet Union’?

34. President Johnson’s government program that demanded ‘an end
to poverty and racial injustice’.

35. What was the ‘Great Society’?

36. Kind of music that was the most popular with teenagers during
the 1960’s?

37. What was ‘rock ‘n roll’?

38. The new way, or movement, that artists were using to express themselves.

39. What was ‘pop art’?

40. This generation changed the society and politics of the country in the 1960’s.

41. Who were ‘the baby boom generation’?

42. During the Cold War years of the 1950s and 1960s, the United States tried to stop the spread of ____________.

43. What is the “communism ”?

44. North Vietnam was governed by
________________, and South
Vietnam was governed by
________________.

45. What is the North Vietnam is governed by ‘communists’ and
South Vietnam is governed by
‘non-communists’?

46. In 1965, what did U.S. leaders
decide to send to South Vietnam
to help prevent the overthrow of their
government by the communists?

47. What are ‘soldiers’?

48. Why did opposition to the war grow
in the United States as the fighting
continued?

49. What was ‘the cost of the war in
dollars and in lives kept growing’?

50. How did people show their
opposition to the Vietnam War?

51. What is ‘they took part in anti-
war demonstrations and marches’?

52. Final Jeopardy For how many years were the
U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam?

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
What is ‘8 years’?