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100
The cooling down of relations between the US and USSR.
What is detente?
100
A 1965 law that enforced the 15th amendment by outlawing race-, gender- & belief-based discrimination at the polls.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
100
A cause of a more homogenous global culture.
What is television?
100
A year-long bus boycott in Alabama that began in 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
The movement of people to settlements like that depicted in the image above.
What is sub-urbanization?
200
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Failed invasion of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
200
A Senate committee that held & televised trials with the intent of exposing those who held communist beliefs.
What is HUAC?
200
This old advancement gained new powers such as climate control and better automatic transition during the Cold War.
What is the car?
200
1960’s phenomenon among the youth as they reacted against the conformity of the ‘50’s.
What is (youth) counterculture?
200
"We choose to go to the moon ... and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.."
What Cold War president said this?
Who was John F. Kennedy?
300
What is the Cold War?
300
A government official whose namesake "-ism" characterized US domestic policy during the 1950's Red Scare.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
This piece of legislation was promised to provide a "modern, efficient highway system...essential to meet the needs of our growing population.”
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
300
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This woman was against the ERA reform.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
300
Event that triggered the 1970's energy crisis & economic stagflation.
What is OPEC oil embargo (1973)?
400
One of the largest military campaigns in the Vietnam war.
What is the Tet Offensive (1968)?
400
1970 legislation that allowed the federal government to limit harmful industrial and automobile emissions.
What is Clean Air Act?
400
This new product came from the need for fast survivable communication.
What is the internet?
400
Environmentalist and author of "Silent Spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
A group whose efforts were crucial to mobilizing previously apolitical, conservative Christians to the Republican party.
What is Moral Majority?
500
US promise to help “third world” or democratic countries against communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
Expansion of social programs in the 1950’s under Lyndon B. Johnson.
What is the Great Society?
500
Submarines came to a new level of power with this destructive technology.
What is nuclear weapons?
500
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1972 law that outlawed gender discrimination in academic programs that receive federal funding.
What is Title IX?
500
During his presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter referred to himself as a “____-____ __________” in reference to his religious beliefs.
What is born-again Christian?