Crossword

Question 1

Martin Luther King

Answer 1

Assassination of him set off race riots in many American cities

Question 2

Freedom riders

Answer 2

Rode through the deep South to test integration laws on our interstate highways

Question 3

Voting rights act

Answer 3

And literacy tests and poll taxes

Question 4

The __________ appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in February 1964 kicking off the musical British invasion

Answer 4

Beatles

Question 5

Saigon

Answer 5

Capital of South Vietnam change its name to Ho Chi Minh city after the war

Question 6

NASA’s Apollo program

Answer 6

Helped keep Americans unified as we reached for the moon

Question 7

By 1968 America had over 500,000 __________serving in Vietnam

Answer 7

Soldiers

Question 8

Senator Robert Kennedy

Answer 8

Brother of the slain president was shot and killed after running for office in June

Question 9

Militant civil rights leader of 1960s

Answer 9

Malcolm X

Question 10

Nixon is the only president to _________from office

Answer 10

Resign

Question 11

President _________ popularity was damaged by the warm Vietnam and he decided not to run for reelection

Answer 11

Johnsons

Question 12

Oswald

Answer 12

Accused of killing President Kennedy

Question 13

President Ford

Answer 13

Pardon Nixon even know people who worked for him went to prison

Question 14

President _________ appealed to the silent majority when he won the presidency in 1968

Answer 14

Nixon

Question 15

Saigon was finally captured by the _________forces of north Vietnam in 1975

Answer 15

Communist

Question 16

Bob Woodward and Car Bernstein were the two _______ that exposed Watergate

Answer 16

Reporters

Question 17

Communist rebels in South Vietnam

Answer 17

Vietcong

Question 18

President Kennedy

Answer 18

Assassinated in Dallas Texas

Question 19

Over 50,000 Americans and approximately 2 million Vietnamese, ________ as a result of the conflict

Answer 19

Died

Question 20

The Supreme Court demand that Nixon turnover White House _______

Answer 20

Recordings

Question 21

Sit in protest

Answer 21

We sometimes use the protests “whites only”counter service at restaurants

Question 22

The generation gap

Answer 22

Used to describe the division between young and old Americans in the 1968

Question 23

President Johnson’s war on poverty and Medicare plan was part of his ________ __________.

Answer 23

Great Society

Question 24

Our Cold War nemesis the ________ _______ was supply North Vietnam with weapons and supplies

Answer 24

Soviet Union

Question 25

The process of removing the president from office

Answer 25

Impeachment

Question 26

Surefire evidence to crime is known as a_____ ______.

Answer 26

Smoking gun

Question 27

Woodstock New York

Answer 27

Highpoint of the 1960s counterculture movement took place with hundreds of thousands of hippies met at a rock concert here

Question 28

Domino theory

Answer 28

Stated that of my country turns communist other nations in the region will follow

Question 29

The_____for the Vietnam war ended in 1973, and we haven’t had one cents

Answer 29

Draft

Question 30

Golf of Tonkin Incident in 1964

Answer 30

After President Johnson receive congressional permission to ramp up the war Vietnam

Question 31

Vietnam is called a living room or because Americans could watch live coverage on_______.

Answer 31

Television

Question 32

In August, 1968, massive rides are broke it outside the democratic national convention in_____.

Answer 32

Chicago

Question 33

Acronym for prisoner of war

Answer 33

POW

Question 34

The North Vietnamese and Vietcong saw the war as a struggle against__________.

Answer 34

Colonialism

Question 35

Motown

Answer 35

This Detroit record label dominated the air waves with groups like the Supremes, the four tops, and the temptations

Question 36

Watergate scandal

Answer 36

Led to the downfall of President Nixon

Question 37

Four students were shot and killed at _____________ state university want to protest turn tragic in 1970

Answer 37

Kent