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President from 1952-1960.


Eisenhower

In Dallas, Texas on this day, President Kennedy was assassinated.

11/22/63

failed attempt to invade Cuba and kill Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs

JFK’s brother and Attorney General

Bobby, RFK

Supreme Court Case which stated that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Director of the FBI who had incriminating evidence on JFK during his Presidency.

Edgar Hoover

Senator from Wisconsin who accused over 100 people in the government of being communist.

Joseph McCarthy

First African-American to be admitted to Ole Miss.

James Meredith

Was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the front of the bus.

Rosa Parks

One of the first programs created by JFK when taking the Presidency which encourages volunteers to help develop third world countries

Peace Corps

Feminist author who called for women to not accept traditional norms in the 1950s.

Simone de Beauvoir

Communist Dictator of Cuba

Fidel Castro

Idea introduced by the McDonalds brothers.

Fast Food

Civil Rights worker who was murdered in 1963, but his murderer was found guilty finally 30 years later.

Medgar Evers

The man believed to be the lone assassin in killing JFK.

Lee Harvey

Event in which MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” Speech.

March on Washington

14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white girl

Emmett Till

Ran against JFK in the 1960 Presidential Election.

Nixon

Author of Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Sloan Wilson

Banning Hollywood stars from getting involved in movies because of communist ties.

Black listing

President who decided to drop the bombs on Japan.

Harry S. Truman

One of the brothers involved in overthrowing the dictator of Guatemaula in order to secure the fruit industry.

Allen Dulles

U.S. Presidential candidate who lost to Eisenhower in 1952.

Nixon

Soviet attempt to place missiles in Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Location of the Little Rock Nine.

Arkansas

assassin of Medgar Evers.

Byron De La Beckwith

Were murdered by a local sheriff and KKK members in 1964. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam.

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner

President Kennedy’s name of the program to be the first country to put a man on the moon.

Apollo Program

Civil Rights Worker who demanded African-American rights and preached African-American superiority.

Malcolm X

Civil Rights volunteers who refused to give up their seats in a white lunch counter.

Greensboro Four

Governor of Arkansas.

Orval Faubus

Concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and only Lee Harvey Oswald

Warren Commission

drill for school children in the event of a nuclear attack.

Duck and Cover

Was the process of using psychology to discover what sells to the American people in the 1950s.

Motivational Research

A barrier between Democratic and Communist East and West Berlin.

Berlin Wall

Gave the famous “I Have a Dream” Speech.

MLK

Term used to describe the dropout generation of the 1950s

Beat Generation

Won the 1960 Presidential Election.

JFK

Racist Governor of Alabama in the 1960s.

George Wallace

Location of Bloody Sunday during the Selma March

Edmund Pettus Bridge

American author and poet of the 1950s symbolizing rebellion. Wrote On the Road.

Jack Kerouac

“Dirty” book written in the 1950s that portrayed small town America and the hidden evils of it.

Peyton Place

The idea of controlling another country through industry or business.

Economic Imperialism

Wrote the poem “Howl” and along with Jack Kerouac portrayed the Beat Generation.

Allen Ginsberg

SNCC and CORE members who rode busses into the deep south to show that public bussing can be integrated.

Freedom Riders

Founder of the Nation of Islam and idol of Malcom X

Wallace Fard Muhammad

Was the U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam until 1963

Ngo Dinh Diem

Agreement that split North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel in 1954.

The Geneva Accords

Stated that if one country fell to communism, than others would fall as well.

Domino Theory

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

Nixon

Was the name of the U.S. campaign of bombing North Vietnam in 1965.

roaring thunder

Location where the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 3 protesters in 1970.

Kent State University

Name given to a group of people to “fix the leaks” and to destroy incriminating evidence against Richard Nixon.

Plumbers

Was one of the two reporters for the Washington Post who investigated the Watergate Scandal.

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

Resigned the Vice-Presidency as a result of tax evasion.

Spiro Agnew

The term that describes the economy in the mid 1970s, in which inflation and slow economy developed.

Stagflation

An incident where a partial nuclear power plant meltdown occurred in Pennsylvania in 1979.

The Three Mile Island accident

President from Georgia who promised “he would never lie to the American people.”

Jimmy Carter

President who said ““If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

President who remarked “A people that values its privileges above it’s principles soon loses both.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

international peace organization established after WWII?

The United Nations

the plan to contain communism where it already existed?

Containment Policy (often codified as the Truman Doctrine)

first satellite in space?

Sputnik 1

forbid the above ground and under water testing of weapons of mass destruction?

Partial Test Ban Treaty

a movement to encourage African – Americans to register to vote throughout the South?

Freedom Summer

caused by Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up on a bus?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

outlawed the use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel and called for free elections?

1954

Geneva Accords

belief that if Vietnam fell to the communists, then the rest of Southeast Asia would follow?

Domino Theory

simultaneous attack by the Vietcong on targets in the South, during the Vietnamese new year?

Tet Offensive

gradual turning over of the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese?

Vietnamization

bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S., from 1965 to 1968?

Operation Rolling Thunder

French fort attacked by the Vietmihn, ending French efforts in Vietnam?

Dien Bien Phu

The leader of North Vietnam was:

Ho Chi Minh

struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for global dominance was known as

Cold War

Where was the U.S. at war from 1950 to 1953?

Korean Peninsula

Who was JFK's Republican opponent in 1960?

Nixon

The leader of the U.S.S.R. during JFK's presidency was

Nikita Khrushchev

How faithful was JFK to his wife, Jackie?

John F. Kennedy was not faithful to his wife, Jackie, and was notorious for numerous extramarital affairs during their 10-year marriage.

Where does the word Watergate come from?

residential and office complex in Washington, D.C., which housed the Democratic National Committee headquarters

What newspaper did reporters Woodward and Bernstein work for?

NYT

What evidence ended up being the smoking gun that proved the president was involved?

tape captured President Nixon explicitly ordering his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, to have the CIA pressure the FBI to abandon its investigation into the burglary

Who became president after Richard Nixon?

Gerald Ford

What government agency did Deep Throat belong to?

FBI