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200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Cold War 1960sVietnamCivil RightsPotpourri
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The movies “The Wild One” and “Rebel Without a Cause” played to this concern in 1950s America?
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Juvenile Delinquency
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This president warned America to be on guard against the Military Industrial Complex?
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Eisenhower
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The name of the general who led the UN police action against North Korea was?
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Douglass Macarthur
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What was largely responsible for the Soviet Union getting the technology to explode a nuclear weapon in 1949?
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Espionage in the U.S.
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This is the name for the Cold War policy used by Eisenhower where we would threaten to go to the edge of nuclear war.
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Brinksmanship
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What was the “problem with no name?”
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The discontentment felt by American housewives
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What was the deal to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
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US would remove missiles from Turkey and would pledge not to ever attack Cuba again
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JFK was assassinated in this city
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Dallas, Texas
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What did Khrushchev do to stop East Berliners from defecting to free West Berlin
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Built the Berlin Wall
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This organization is suspected in the JFK assassination due to Kennedy’s threat to disband them.
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CIA
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Who did not run for president again in 1968 because the Vietnam War had destroyed his popularity?
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LBJ
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This democratic presidential candidate and peace advocate was assassinated in 1968 in LA
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RFK
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US bombing campaigns were largely ineffective at destroying this supply route in Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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This event, where American soldiers massacred Vietnamese villagers, furthered weakened US morale
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My Lai Massacre
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US involvement in Vietnam officially ended when we evacuated this city?
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Saigon
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Brown v. Board of Education overturned this previous Supreme Court ruling?
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Martin Luther King employed the same methods of protest practiced by this leader
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Photos of German shepherds and fire hoses shocked America during this civil rights event
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Birmingham Campaign
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This form of protest was used to integrate lunch counters in department stores
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Sit Ins
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The assassination of this civil rights leader led to riots in over 300 American cities
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MLK Jr.
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What was Reaganomics?
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Tax breaks, cuts in spending, increase in defense spending
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Price controls on gasoline in the 1970s led to...
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Long lines at the pumps, gas rationing, running out of gas
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The Iranian people stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran because...
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The US granted asylum to the Shah of Iran
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The drug that decimated inner-city America in the 1980 was...
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Crack
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This, a term for when the value of the dollar decreases, hit double- digits in the 1970s.
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Inflation
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