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History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Attempted to determine the cause of the 1967 riots | Kerner Commission |
| Term coined by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael | black power |
| best known African American radical activist | Malcolm X |
| Raial separation imposed by law | de jure segregation |
| Massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi | Freedom Summer |
| Bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes | freedom ride |
| banned literacy tests for voter registration | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| helped NAACP win desegregation case against Ole Miss | James Meredith |
| Case that overturn Plessy v. Ferguson | Brown v. Board |
| African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation | Thurgood Marshall |
| physical manifestation of Germany's political division | Berlin Wall |
| Military strategy relying on both traditional and specialized units | flexible response |
| Revolutionary leader who instituted a communist regime in Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| President Kennedy's vision for America | New Frontier |
| Program to provide basic health care to poor and disabled Americans | Medicaid |
| President Johnson's social welfare plan | Great Society |
| Group that investigated Kennedy's assassination | Warren Commission |
| Legislation that banned discrimination based on race or sex | Civil Rights Act |
| Strategy used by President Kennedy to improve the economy | deficit spending |
| John F. Kennedy's opponent in 1960 | Richard M. Nixon |
| President Nixon's leading adviser on nation security and international affairs | Henry Kissinger |
| Guerrilla fighters who launched an insurgency in Vietnam | Vietcong |
| A coordinated assault by communist fores on more than 40 cities in Vietnam | Tet Offensive |
| Rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| An antiwar candidate for President in 1968 | Eugene McCarthy |
| Chinese premier who normalized relations with President Nixon | Zhou Enlai |
| A classified gov history of American involvement in Vietnam | Pentagon Papers |
| A Vietnamese village attacked by American troops | My Lai |
| A jellied gasoline that explodes when dropped in large cansiters | Napalm |
| The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its neighbors would follow | domino theory |
| Union for Lation and Filipino farmworkers | United Farm Workers |
| Event promoting environmental protection | Earth Day |
| English rock band | Beatles |
| Organization advocating women's rights | NOW |
| Latino union leader | Cesar Chavez |
| 1973 Supreme Court case on abortion rights | Roe v. Wade |
| 1960s lifestyle challenging traditional mainstream values | counterculter |
| Poisonous byproduct of human activity | Toxic waste |
| Theory of full equality between men and women | feminism |
| Laborers who move from farm to farm | migrant farmworkers |
| A period of recession and inflation | Stagflation |
| Put European nations on record in favor of human rights | Helsinki Accords |
| To officially forgive | Pardon |
| Penalties | Sanctions |
| Took power in Iran in 1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| A plan to help African Americans overcome past discrimination | Affirmative action |
| Cast himself as a fresh face to win the Presidency | Jimmy Carter |
| Succeeded Nixon as President | Gerald Ford |
| Establish procedures for presidential succession | 25th amendment |
| Scandal that caused Nixon's resignation | Watergate |
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