Apush 60s-70s scavenger hunt

Pol Pot

(1925-1998) Leader of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot is responsible for the deaths of almost 2 million of his own people due to starvation, execution, and beatings.

The Other America

(1962)-This novel was an influential study of poverty in the U.S, published by Michael Harrington & it was a driving force behind the "war on poverty." 1/5 of U.S was living below poverty line.

Roe v. Wade

(1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy

Earth Day

A holiday conceived of by environmental activist and Senator Gaylord Nelson to encourage support for and increase awareness of environmental concerns; first celebrated on March 22, 1970

Love Canal

A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, which became the subject of national and international attention, controversy, and eventual environmental notoriety following the discovery of 21,000 tons of toxic waste buried beneath the neighborhood.

Patty Hearst

A newspaper heiress, was convicted of bank robbery in 1976 and sentenced to 35 years in prison. She was released after 22 months. President Clinton pardoned her in 2001.

Battle of the Sexes

A tennis match in 1973 between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. King's much-heralded victory over Riggs represented a key triumph over sexism and provided a significant historical lesson on exceeding sexist expectations and assumptions.

Mini skirt

A very short skirt that ends well above the knees. First came into popularity between 1963-1970.

Texas Instruments

Company with significant impact on the Texas economy by producing and selling more than 25 million scientific calculators worldwide

Steal This Book

Abbie Hoffman (Counterculture of the 1960's)

Camelot

After JFK died, his wife, Jackie, compared their time in the White House to this musical.

Sesame Street

An educational television program for preschool children, particularly aimed at disadvantaged children, that began in the late 1960s. It teaches awareness of letters and numbers and combines live actors, animation, and puppets in a great number of small segments, many of them musical.

Smokey Robinson

An influential singer/songwriter with Motown.

Harper Lee

Author of To Kill A Mockingbird

Dr. Who

BBC television show about a time traveling, humanoid alien, can regenerate his body when near death; recently celebrated 50th anniversary.

Roger Maris

Baseball player who hit 61 home runs in 1961, a record at the time, first person to break Babe Ruth's homerun record

Malcolm X

Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965.

Yom Kippur War

Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur)

mod

Emerging in the early 60s, the 'Modernists' were an aspirational subculture of young men and women who dressed smartly and beautifully as a statement of rebellion against the austerity of their parent's generation

Grease

Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?

Alan Shepard

First American in space

Louise Brown

First test tube baby

Ms Magazine

Founded by Gloria Steinem and several other women, provided viewpoints of feminist issues and familiarized its audience with the arguments and issues of the women's movement.

1960 debates

Kennedy-Nixon (first ones televised)

MASH

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

NOW

National Organization of Women, 1966, Betty Friedan first president, wanted Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforce its legal mandate to end sex discrimination

Cesar Chavez

Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers from 1963-1970. Organized laborers in California and in the Southwest to strike against fruit and vegetable growers. Unionized Mexican-American farm workers.

OPEC

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

The Deer Hunter

Parts of this film, which won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Picture, were shot in Weirton and Follansbee.

Star Wars

President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space.

Pink Floyd

Progressive Rock, another brick wall

I Dream of Jeannie

Rescued from a bottle (and a deserted island) by a U.S. astronaut, a scantily clad genie named Jeannie becomes his slave and eventually falls in love with him. But unlike most genie stories, there are no three wishes rule - so Jeannie uses her magic all the time, often without talking to her rescuer about it first.

The Sound of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel Folk Rock

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

Bakke v. US

Supreme court ruling that overthrew the affirmative-action plan of a California medical school that reserved a specific number of spaces for minority applicants.

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath- was an American poet, novelist and short story writer who wrote this novel. It is about a young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies

Engel v. Vitale

The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.

1972 Summer Olympics

The Munich massacre occurred at this event, during which Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and held nine hostage.

NERF

The Nerf Ball debuted in 1969 as the first indoor ball with a slogan that thrilled kids and attempted to comfort their parents: "Throw it indoors. You can't damage lamps or break windows. You can't hurt babies or old people."

The Graduate

The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson, but then falls for her daughter, Elaine.

Flintstones

The first animated series on prime-time television

Twiggy

The first prominent teenage model. She was known for her androgynous looks, large eyes, long eyelashes, and thin build.

Jonestown

The religious settlement in Guyana where Jim Jones led 911 of his followers to a mass suicide

Dick van Dyke Show

showed real-life problems that many couples of the period were dealing with

The Bee Gees

the most commercially-successful disco group of the 70s, Stayin Alive

Gladys Knight

"Empress of Soul", African American singer and humanitarian and author

Me decade

1969-1978, an era obsessed with personal well-being and emotional security. Characterized by health foods, diet crazes, a mania for physical fitness, and a quest for happiness through therapy

All in the Family

1971, Norman Lear the shows creator felt that TV comedy should not only funny, but provocative and stimulating. It was the first show to commonly used topics such as racism, sexism, and religious bigotry, as the basis for plots. Show attracted and held a large audience holding the number one spot for 5 years.

Three Mile Island

1979 - A mechanical failure and a human error at this power plant in Pennsylvania combined to permit an escape of radiation over a 16 mile radius.

Rapper's Delight

1979 hip hop track that serves as the debut single of American hip-hip trio the Sugarhill Gang, produced by Sylvia Robinson

Shirley Chisholm

1st African American woman elected to Congress (NY) and later made a bid for the Democratic nomination in the 1972 presidential campaign

Harvey Milk

1st openly gay politician in Calif.; one of only a very few in the US at the time. Assassinated while in office; Helped to erase the stigma of being openly homosexual.

George McGovern

A Senator from South Dakota who ran for President in 1972 on the Democrat ticket. His promise was to pull the remaining American troops out of Vietnam in ninety days which earned him the support of the Anti-war party, and the working-class supported him, also. He lost however to Nixon.

Title IX

A United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

Unsafe at Any Speed

A book by Ralph Nader that told of the dangers of automobiles that owners allegedly knew about and were keeping from the people to increase profits.

Silent Spring

A book written to voice the concerns of environmentalists. Launched the environmentalist movement by pointing out the effects of civilization development.

Stonewall Rebellion

Uprising in support of equal rights for gay people sparked by an assault by off-duty police officers at a gay bar in New York. The rebellion led to rise in activism and militancy within the gay community and furthered the sexual revolution of the late 1960s.

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls is the only book the Tralfamadorians have for Billy to read on the way to the planet in the saucer. All the rest of the books are in Tralfamadorian, a series of symbols which Billy cannot read.

Fleetwood Mac

Very successful 70s band. "Rumours" album was a multi-million selling "Big Album".

1973 oil crisis

When the Arab member countries of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) proclaimed an oil embargo in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military

Miss America

With the rise of second-wave feminism and the civil rights movement during the 1960s, the Miss America pageant became the subject of a series of protests (NOW) that attacked it as sexist, racist, and part of U.S. militarism. The first such demonstration took place during the Miss America 1969 pageant held on September 7, 1968 (won by Miss Illinois 1968, Judith Ford)

Audrey Hepburn

a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List

Haight-Ashbury

a San Francisco district that became the "capital" of the hippie counterculture during the 1960s

John Glenn

made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962

Earth, Wind, and Fire

an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop. They are among the best-selling bands of all time, with sales of over 90 million records worldwide

The Temptations

are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records

Equal Rights Amendment

constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender

Wilma Rud

first african american woman to win three olympic gold medals in track and field in 1960

Simon and Garfunkel

folk singing duo from 1960s, the sound of silence