World War II
Which country was NOT part of the Axis powers: Spain, Germany, Italy, or Japan?
What is Spain?
The Cold War was a proxy war between which two superpowers?
What is the United States and the Soviet Union?
This decade saw the rise of television as a major cultural hallmark in American households.
What is the 1950s?
This 1965 legislation ended ethnic discrimination in immigration policy.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
The Watergate scandal got its name from this location where Lawrence O'Brien's office was located.
What is the Watergate Hotel?
This event officially brought the United States into World War II.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
American policymakers presented the Cold War as a battle between capitalism and this economic system.
What is communism?
This organization was the primary force behind the women's liberation movement in the 1960s
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Most Americans experienced the 1970s OPEC oil crisis through this problem.
What are high gas prices and gas shortages?
Executive Order 9066 created these during World War II.
What are Japanese internment camps?
This NATO-like organization was designed to ensure mutual defense against Soviet aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
| Freedom Riders at the Birmingham bus terminal were met with this type of violent opposition.
What is a violent Klan posse?
This legislation guaranteed women equal access to educational and athletic programs.
What is Title IX?
This agency was created in the 1970s to protect endangered species.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This government agency developed the atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
President Eisenhower warned Americans about the dangers of this in his Farewell Address.
What is the military-industrial complex?
This legislation was passed in response to state troopers beating demonstrators at the Pettus Bridge in Selma.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Phyllis Schlafly argued the ERA threatened this aspect of women's lives.
What are social norms that protected women?
Fifty-two Americans were taken hostage in this country during the Cold War tensions of the late 1970s.
What is Iran?
This military operation occurred on June 6, 1944, marking a major turning point in WWI
What is D-Day?
| Senator Joseph McCarthy gained fame by accusing the State Department of harboring this many communists
What is more than 200?
This famous speech line—"I have a dream"—did not appear in Martin Luther King Jr.'s original script.
What is true?
Betty Ford became an advocate for women's issues by openly discussing her experiences with these two health challenges.
What are alcoholism and breast cancer?
Ronald Reagan made three promises in his 1981 inaugural address: a stronger defense, ending abortion rights, and this.
What is school prayer?