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60's Civil Rights #1
60's & Civil Rights PEOPLE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Neil Armstrong | First man on the moon |
| Richard Nixon | Promised law and order and peace with honor |
| Malcolm X | Leader of the nation of Islam |
| Lee Harvey Oswald Jr. | Accused of killing JFK |
| John F. Kennedy | Catholic president who was assassinated and is known for saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you..." |
| Yuri Gagarin | First man in space |
| Fidel Castro | Leader of Cuba |
| Ho Chi Minh | Fought for Vietnamese independence |
| Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) | Great Society, increased troops in Vietnamese |
| Cesar Chavez | Organized farm workers |
| Robert Kennedy | Assassinated while running for president |
| Jack Ruby | Killed Lee Harvey Oswald on National TV |
| Martin Luther King | "I have a dream" speech |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus |
| Nikita Krushchev | Leader of USSR after Stalin died |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who tried to find communists |
| James Meredith | First African-American student at University of Mississippi |
| Douglas MacArthur | Army commander in Korea |