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Topic 1: 200• Question:• Who gave the “I have a dream” speech?• Answer• Martin Luther King Jr.

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Topic 1: 400• Question:• What Supreme Court case resulted in

desegregation of schools?• Answer• Brown v Board of Education

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Topic 1: 600• Question:• What were the people called that rode buses

into the South to protest segregation?• Answer• Freedom Riders

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Topic 1: 800• Question:• What were the goals of the March on

Washington?• Answer• Civil and economic equality

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Topic 1: 1000• Question:• What was the effect of the Voting Rights Act?• Answer• Ended discriminatory practices that kept

African Americans from voting

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Topic 2: 200• Question:• Why did the United States become involved in

Vietnam?• Answer• To stop communist aggression

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Topic 2: 400• Question: • Why did the US support South Korea?• Answer• To stop communist aggression

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Topic 2: 600• Question:• What event was a turning point in the

Vietnam war, showing that it would not be quick and easy?

• Answer• Tet Offensive

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Topic 2: 800• Question:• Who won the Korean War• Answer• No one, there was no treaty signed

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Topic 2: 1000• Question:• What was Nixon’s plan of Vietnamization?• Answer• Gradual withdrawal, training the South

Vietnamese to fight for themselves

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Topic 3: 200• Question:• What was the goal of Cesar Chavez?• Answer• Improve working conditions for farmers by

organizing them into unions

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Topic 3: 400• Question:• The arrest of Rosa Parks led to the boycott of

what?• Answer• Buses

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Topic 3: 600• Question:• What was the goal of the Little Rock 9?• Answer• Attend a desegregated school.

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Topic 3: 800• Question:• The time period when there was a witch hunt

for communists was named after who?• Answer• Senator McCarthy

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Topic 3: 1000• Question:• Who were the Vietcong?• Answer• Guerilla communist fighters in South Vietnam

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Topic 4: 200• Question:• Where did the Bay of Pig invasion take place ?

Answer• Cuba

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Topic 4: 400• Question:• What countries were involved in the Cuban

Missile Crisis?• Answer• Cuba, Russia, US

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• The idea that if one country falls to

communism then other surrounding countries will follow is called what

• Answer• The domino effect

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Topic 4: 800• Question:• What 2 countries aided North Korea?• Answer• China, Russia

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Topic 4: 1000• Question:• The policy that the US will help stop the

spread of communism is called what (named after a president)?

• Answer• The Truman Doctrine

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Topic 5: 200• Question:• What invention created a demand for

products?• Answer• television

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Topic 5: 400• Question:• What event during the Cold War

demonstrated that Russia was ahead of the US in Space Technology?

• Answer• The flight of Sputnik

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Topic 5: 600• Question:• What became the symbol of the American

Dream?• Answer• The suburbs and the idea that everyone can

own a home

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Topic 5: 800• Question:• What historic concert took place in NY in

1969?• Answer• Woodstock

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Topic 5: 1000• Question:• Who were the Beat Generation?• Answer• Anti-establishment group, used poetry and

music

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Bonus Question: 2000 pts.

• Question:• Who were the Vietcong?• Answer• …• South Vietnamese soldiers fighting for

communism

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You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question write you win that money

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