1963–1969
Who promoted the Great Society program?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who resigned from office?
Richard Nixon
Who challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall?
Ronald Reagan
Who sent U.S. troops to Panama to overthrow Manuel Noriega?
George H. W. Bush
In what year did mankind first walk on the moon?
1969
President Nixon signed the SALT I treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, leader of what country?
The Soviet Union
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who shared some of the conservative vision as Ronald Reagan?
Margaret Thatcher
Kim Jong-il was the communist dictator of what country?
North Korea
What amendment banned all poll taxes?
24th
What amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
26th
Who was the Soviet leader who signed the INF Treaty with President Reagan?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Who is remembered for the Whitewater affair?
Bill Clinton
Which leader promoted achieving equal rights by any means necessary?
Malcolm X
Abortion in America was legalized by the court case, which one?
Roe v. Wade
What nation signed a peace treaty with Israel at the Camp David Accords?
Egypt
President Reagan's policy for individual states to assume more responsibility for government programs was called what?
New Federalism
What is the agreement that enforced the elimination of tariffs and other trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico called?
North American Free Trade Agreement
The Vietnam War was fought from _____ to 1973?
1965
What is the name of the pipeline that the United States attempted to decrease dependence on imported oil through?
The Trans-Alaska
Who negotiated the Camp David Accords?
Jimmy Carter
What new Soviet foreign policy claimed openness and peace with the world?
Glasnost
In what year was Operation Desert Storm fought?
1991
In what Gulf did the North Vietnamese allegedly attack the U.S. Navy in 1964?
Gulf of Tonkin
During the Six-Day War, the Sinai Peninsula was conquered by the nation of what?
Israel
What president negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama by 1999?
Jimmy Carter
What is the name of the day that the stock market crashed in 1987 because of foreign trade agreements?
Black Monday
Who was the dictator of Iraq who invaded the tiny oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait?
Saddam Hussein
What large-scale campaign did the Vietcong begin in 1968 against American and South Vietnamese forces that changed public opinion about the war?
The Tet Offensive
Who was the first black American to receive the rank of four-star general?
Daniel “Chappie” James
What Polish nationalist movement stood up to Soviet oppression?
Solidarity
Who was investigated for transferring money to the Contras from Iran?
Oliver North
What is a great freedom demonstration that took place in China at what square?
Tiananmen Square
What presidential candidate was assassinated in 1968?
Robert F. Kennedy
What group of nations placed an oil embargo on the United States?
OPEC
Who was the leader of the Iranian rebels in the Iran hostage crisis?
Ruhollah Khomeini
Who was the Libyan dictator who sponsored international terrorism?
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Who is the father of progressive education?
John Dewey
Who was the first black Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Discrimination in renting and selling homes was prohibited through what act?
The Fair Housing Act
Who used her teenage son to protest daily Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in Baltimore public schools?
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
What is the name of the policy of racial segregation that discriminated against people of color in South Africa called?
Apartheid
Who was the first freely elected president of the Russian Republic?
Boris Yeltsin
Who was the first black American to hold a cabinet position?
Robert C. Weaver
Who was the Russian author who based his novels on his experience being imprisoned in a slave labor camp?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Who wrote the book Whatever Became of Sin?
Karl Menninger
The economist who argued that welfare programs hurt ethnic minorities was who?
Thomas Sowell
Who led the U.S. troops into combat during Operation Desert Storm?
Norman Schwarzkopf