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70 Cards in this Set
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What were U-2 planes used for until one was shot down by the Soviet Union?
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spying
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Which president took office in 1961?
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JFK
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What president said that American advisors in Vietnam could fire if fired upon?
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JFK
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What volunteer organization was established to help "poorer" nations
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Peace Corps
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What country did the US cut diplomatic relations with because of problems over the American presence at Guantanamo Bay?
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Cuba
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Who was the Cuban leader during the missile crisis
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Fidel Castro
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What nation had Soviet Missiles that endangered the US
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Cuba
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Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban missile crisis
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Khrushchev
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Where was the US invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles
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Bay of Pigs
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Who was the first black to attend Ole Miss
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James Meredith
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What president was shot in 1963?
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JFK
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Where was JFK when he was assassinated?
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Dallas, Texas
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Who was JFK's assassin?
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Oswald
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Who shot JFK's assassin
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Ruby
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Who else was killed or injured that day?
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Gov. Connolley (injured) and Officer Tippett (killed)
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What is the name of the famous investigation of this 20th century assassination
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Warren Commission
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What became illegal in 1963 for children to do in school?
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pray
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Who was the first black US supreme court justice
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Thurgood Marshall
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Where were refusals by blacks to move from a restaurant until they were served?
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sit-ins
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What famous speaker said, "I have a dream..."
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MLK
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In what city did MLK make his speech
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Washington, DC
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Who was the first black in 85 years to be elected to the senate from Massachusetts
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Edward Brooke
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Who wrote Soul on Ice while in Folsom State prison
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Cleaver
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What law was passed in 1964 that banned discrimination
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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What resolution was passed by Congress authorizing presidential action in Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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What section of LA did blacks riot in 1965
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Watts
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What leader who promoted black pride was killed in 1965
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Malcolm X
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Who was the first black congresswoman
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Shirley Chisholm
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Who introduced the term black power
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Stokeley Carmichael
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In what cities in New Jersey and Michigan did race riots occur?
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Newark and Detroit
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What black congressman from New York lost his seniority for misuse of government funds?
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Floyd Flake
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Who was the decade's top team of newscasters?
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Huntley and Brinkley
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What was Rachel Carson's book that started the environmentalist movement
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Silent Spring
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What famous weekly magazine stopped publishing after 148 years
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Saturday Evening Post
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What Broadway hit summed up the ideals and protests of the 1960s
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Hair
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What Scottish actor starred as James Bond
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Sean Connery
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What were the extremely short skirts that came into fashion
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mini skirts
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What thin, young model from England became the rage?
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Twiggy
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What is the nickname for marijuana
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pot
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What is the genetically dangerous drug used for hallucinatory trips
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LSD
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Who were the four mop-haired musicians from England
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the Beatles
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Wh was an artist that helped start the Pop Art Movement by painting pictures of Campbell's soup cans?
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Andy Warhol
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What powerful sect was begun by Muhammad
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Black Muslims
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To what Caribbean nation did the US send 14,000 troops during a civil war
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Dominican Republic
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What was the capital city of North Vietnam that was bombed for the first time in 1966
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Hanoi
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What nation was dragged into Vietnam in 1966
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France
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To what neighbor of Vietnam did the US send military planes?
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Laos
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What ship with its entire crew was seized in the Sea of Japan by North Koreans?
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USS Pueblo
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In what village did a massacre of Vietnamese civilians occur
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My Lai
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What tv hit of 1967 starred Dan Rowan and Dick Martin?
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Laugh-in
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what did the supreme court rule that all criminal defendants may have
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right to a lawyer
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What was the subject of many demonstrations during the 60s
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Vietnam War
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Which brother of JFK was shot in 1968
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Robert Kennedy
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Who shot him
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Sirhan Sirhan
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What famous civil rights leader was shot in 1968
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MLK
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Where was he when he was killed
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Memphis, TN
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Who was convicted of killing him
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James Ray
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Who was elected president in 1968
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Nixon
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Who accomplished the first US suborbital space flight
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Alan Shepherd
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Who was the first American in orbit
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John Glenn
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What was the name of the first US space program?
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Project Mercury
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Who was the first man to walk on the moon
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Neil Armstrong
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When did this happen
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July 1969
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event in 1969 at which 400,000 young people met and listened to rock and blues music
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Woodstock
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What senator was investigated for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned
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Edward Kennedy
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world's greatest heavyweight boxing champion who said "I am the greatest."
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Muhammad Ali
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What is Muhammad Ali's real name and why did he change it
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Cassius Clay; he converted to Islam
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Where is the only place the Soviet Union and the US agree nuclear weapons could be tested
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underground
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In what European city did the Vietnamese peace talks begin
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Paris
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What country cut diplomatic relations with the US because of problems over a new canal treaty
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Panama
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