Stats: 1960s fun

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
this election was different as it can be viewed on _ _	TV	91%
1960 election saw jfk go up against	Richard Nixon	87%
he was ____ which made people weary of him (what religion)	Catholic.	83%
jfks vice president	Johnson	83%
cuba leader who supported communism	Fidel Castro	74%
JFK killer	Lee Harvey Oswald	74%
soviet leader at the time	Nikita Khrushchev	74%
he was ____ which made people weary of him (young or old)	young	74%
The _ _ _ planned an attack to overthrow Castro	CIA	70%
jfk killed in	dallas	70%
proposed to make discrimination based on sex illegal (never passed)	Equal Rights amendment	70%
who kills LHO	jack ruby	70%
Kennedys third crisis	Cuban missile crisis	65%
Jfk was from ___ and an army vet	Massachusetts	65%
soviets and the Us challenge to get to the moon was called the	space race	65%
kennedy _____ defense spending and the draft.(increase or decrease)	increase	61%
attorney general at the time	Robert Kennedy	61%
April __ 1961 US gets embarrassed in Cuba	17	57%
his first crisis involving Ikes plan	Bay of Pigs Invasion	57%
big rock and roll band, British invasion	beetles	57%
Khrushchev builds the ____ separating the berlins	berlin wall	57%
political, economic, & social equality for men and women.	feminism	57%
low cost health insurance to poor	medicaid	57%
low cost med insurance to Amer. 65+	Medicare	57%
S.U. agrees if the US takes missals out of what country	turkey	57%
Elem. & Secondary Ed. Act.: $_._billion to low income homes	1.3	52%
Balance the economy by using ____ spending	deficit	52%
religious prayer in school was unconstitutional	Engel v. Vitale	52%
series of major legislation for domestic reform.	Great Society	52%
outlawed anti-birth control laws	Griswold v. Connecticut	52%
preschool for low income families	head start	52%
handle problems in cities with housing and mass transit.	HUD	52%
pact signed among U.S., Sov. Un., & Gr. Brit. to stop above ground nuclear testing, below ground still allowed.	Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	52%
must be warned of your rights before questioning (Miranda rule)	Miranda v. Arizona	52%
Kennedy’s Domestic Program is named	New Frontier	52%
help in poor communities	VISTA	52%
appt. to investigate assass. & concl. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.	Warren Commission	52%
1969🡪 rock concert where 400,000 people gathered for several days in an open pasture in Bethel, NY	Woodstock	52%
59 cents for every dollar a man made; 1973: __ cents	57	48%
JFKs second crisis	Berlin Crisis	48%
the man above wanted permanent _____ (/) between the two halves	division	48%
combated causes of poverty: illiteracy & unemployment	Economic Opportunity Act	48%
equal wages for equal work in commerce industries	Equal Pay Act	48%
ability to fight any type of conflict	flexible response	48%
The band hired the ___ (infamous motorcycle gang) to keep order	hells angels	48%
Many deaths from overdoses such as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi ____	Hendrix	48%
Issues a ___ around Cuba & demands Khrushchev eliminate the Cuban threat	quarantine	48%
1st black dept of HUD	Robert Weaver	48%
1973 made abortion legal (related it to viability/trimester)	Roe v wade	48%
1964 British Invasion🡪 Beatles and the	Rolling Stones	48%
sent volunteers abroad as educators, health workers, and technicians to help developing nations	The Peace Corps	48%
new immigration laws	1965 Immigration Act:	43%
Kennedy feels	bullied	43%
More women were going to ____ but discouraged once they entered the workforce	college	43%
1963 Betty Friedan's book	Feminine Mystique	43%
right to a free lawyer	Gideon v. Wainwright	43%
Acid Rock: Janis ___, Jimi Hendrix	Joplin	43%
Freidan began ___, sought fair pay & equal job oppor., balance in marriages, & fought against sexist advertis.	NOW	43%
cut individual and corporate income taxes	Revenue Act	43%
Office of Econ. Opportunity led by	Sargent Shriver	43%
ame spy plane catches cuba holding whose bombs	soviet union	43%
war on poverty was battled with the food ___ act	stamps	43%
More “___” or trad’l music, songs of protest against oppression, songs of laborers, etc.	folk	39%
promoted peace, love and freedom;	hippie	39%
Civil Rights Mvt. provided a ___ __model for action	how to	39%
florescent colors and optical illustrations	op art	39%
consciousness-raising grps.🡪 increase awareness of wom. situations in society.	Support groups	39%
better relations with Latin America (unsuccessful)	Alliance for Progress	35%
lack of understanding & communication btwn. older & younger generations	Generation gap:	35%
who made the magazine above	Gloria Steinem	35%
familiarized audience w/ arguments and issues of wom. mvt.	Ms. Magazine	35%
understand own health issues. (book)	Our Bodies Ourselves	35%
new views on sexual conduct that rejected trad’l restrictions on behavior.	Sexual Revolution:	30%
was against mainstream culture & valued youth, spontaneity, and individuality.	counter culture	26%
experimented with ___ religions	eastern	22%
popular books with the revolution were (1962)	Sex and the Single Gir	22%
Harvard researcher who used drugs on students	Tim Leary	17%
1969 Rolling Stones Concert, limited security in _____ california	Altamont	13%
Living together before marriage, living in communal groups, etc. Example of this is	Haight-Ashbury	13%
end of counter culture because they ____ back into mainstream culture.	melted	13%
(One woman) Some were happy w/ trad’l roles & against ERA	Phyllis Schlafly	13%
popular books with the revolution were (1966)	Human Sexual Response	9%
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein🡪 realistic depictions of modern life	Pop culture art	9%

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