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Questions:

1. What was the organization of young African American called that protested by using sit-ins, kneel-ins and wade-ins and used Martin Luther King's concept of nonviolent interracial protest?

2. Name President Nixon's Secretary of State and was credited for keeping peace with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and bringing an end to the intervention in Vietnam?

3. Name the court case in 1974 that ruled that desegregation plans in Detroit requiring the transfer of students from the inner city to the suburbs were unconstitutional.

4. What was it called when the U.S. Forces landed on the southern shore of Cuba to try to overtake their government and ended up being a colossal mistake and one of JFK's worst mistakes?

5. What was the incident where the Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba as a response for help? The event greatly increased tensions between the Soviets and the Americans.

6. What was the Civil Rights legislation passed by President Johnson in 1964 which outlawed segregation in public areas and granted the federal government power to fight black discrimination?

7. In 1970, Nixon by executive order created two new federal environmental agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and what agency to recognize that the public mood had shifted toward greater environmental protections.

8. Who was the man who assassinated John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas?

9. What was the group, led by James Farmer, That sent a group of eighteen black and white activists, including three women, on two buses from Washington, D.C., through the Deep South.

10. What was the resolution that authorized President Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and prevent any further aggression by the North Vietnamese?

11. Who was the Arizona Senator who ran against Lyndon B. Johnson in the election of 1964?

12. Who would write the book "The Feminine Mystique" and along with other activists she would help found the National Organization for Women (NOW)

13. Who was the young African American from Harvard who was the field secretary for SNCC and recruited thousands of Jewish college students to participate in "Freedom Summer?"

14. Who was an advocate of black power and was the figurehead of the Nation of Islam for some time and greatly influenced people to believe in black power and self-defense?

15. Who was the fiery young Democrat that would win the election of 1960 only to be assassinated three years later in Dallas, Texas?

16. On June 17, 1972, where were five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters,with President Nixon's approval leading to the scandal that ended in the first presidential resignation in the history of the United States.

17. What was a military offensive launched on January 31, 1968, the first day of the Vietnamese New Year by the Vietcong and the NVA who were defeated by the Americans that showed that the NVA and Vietcong were going to continue to fight?

18 Was an African American student who tried to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi at Oxford ("Ole Miss")?

19. What happened on August 28, 1963, when over two hundred thousand blacks and whites marched down the Mall in Washington, D.C., toward the Lincoln Memorial?

20. Who was the son of a Mexican immigrant and became the founder of the United Farm Workers UFW to represent Mexican American migrant workers?

21. What was the set of domestic programs called in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65? The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

22. This Act was also known as the Hart-Celler Act, that abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.

23. What was the term used by President Nixon to defuse the anti-war movement by reducing the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam, by equipping and training South Vietnamese soldiers and pilots to assume the burden of combat in place of Americans.

24. What was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi to expand black voting in the South?

25. Who was an American voting rights activist, civil rights leader that was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC?

26. Who would become the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office?

27.Who wrote the book "Silent Spring" in 1962 that sounded the warning years earlier by graphically revealing how industries had been regularly dumping toxic chemicals and pesticides into waterways, doing incalculable ecological damage.

28. In President Kennedy's acceptance speech, he featured the stirring, muscular rhetoric that would stamp the rest of his campaign and his presidency: "We stand today on the edge of a What?

29. What was the term used in 1970 when the economy of the U.S. was undergoing a recession and inflation at the same time. The unusual combination of a stagnant economy with inflationary prices?

30. What was one of the atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam called when Lieutenant William Calley ordered the murder of 347 Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in 1968?

31. The Ohio National Guard was called on to what College campus to quell rioting, and during the riot the building housing the campus ROTC was burned down by anti-war protesters. Then the poorly trained guards-men panicked and opened fire on the rock-throwing demonstrators, killing four student bystanders.

32. What were leaked to the press by a former Defense Department official, Daniel Ellsberg, confirming Congress and the public had not received the full story on the Gulf of Tonkin incident of 1964, and contingency plans for American entry into the war were being drawn up while President Johnson was promising that combat troops would never be sent to Vietnam.

33. Who became President of the United States on August 9, 1974, after Richard Nixon resigned as president?

34. Tom Hayden and Al Haber, two University of Michigan students formed what society in 1960, which was very much influenced by the tactics and ideals of the civil rights movement and adopted the term New Left to distinguish their efforts at grassroots democracy from those of the Old Left of the 1930's.

35. What took place in mid-August 1969 where some four hundred thousand young people converged on a six-hundred-acre farm near the tiny rural town of Bethel, New York. Where they participated in the back-to-the-land movement seeking a path to more authentic living that would deepen their sense of self while pursuing a simple life of self sufficiency.

36. What was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960 and quickly became the most popular birth-control method giving women a much greater sense of sexual freedom than they had any previous contraceptive device.

37. In 1963 after growing inpatient with LBJ and his plan to get federal anti-poverty-program funds into reservations, George Mitchell and Dennis Banks, two Chippewa men living in Minneapolis founded what movement?

38. What was it called when on Saturday night, June 28, 1969 the New York City Vice Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the heart of Greenwich Village, which spurred the gay rights movement?

39. Name the Senator from Texas who would be JFK's Vice President and would later become President after JFK was assassinated?

40. What Court issued perhaps its most bitterly criticized ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, when it ordered that an accused person in police custody be informed of certain basic rights: the right to remain silent; the right to know that anything said can be used against the individual in court; and the right to have a defense attorney present during interrogation.