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The strategic U.S. foreign policy idea focused entirely on stopping the spread of Communism to neighboring nations.

What is Containment?

100

She sparked a city-wide movement after being arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat in Alabama.

Who is Rosa Parks?

100

He is the first and only U.S. president to resign from office in order to avoid a certain impeachment over the Watergate Scandal.

Who is Richard Nixon?

100
Iran and the United States have not had embassies on each other’s soil since this year.
What is 1979.
100
A devastating all out nuclear exchange that could obliterate both sides - known as mutually assured destruction.
What is MAD.
200

The U.S initiative that provided massive economic assistance ($) to rebuild Western Europe after WWII

What is the Marshall Plan?

200

This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared state-sponsored segregation unconstitutional, completely overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

Year in which the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons.

What is 1949.

200
Today, this continues to be one of the big challenges for the Arab world.
What is providing power and opportunity to women.
200
"Condition" in which B-52 jets were loaded with nuclear weapons and ready to take off on 15 minutes' notice.
What is DEFCON 2 or Defense Condition 2.
300

Considered the "first battle" of the Cold War, this event directly challenged the presence and influence of the Western Allies in Germany's capital.

What is the Berlin Blockade?

300

This civil rights activist used passive/peaceful resistance to lead a 9-month boycott of the Birmingham bus company, resulting in its desegregation.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

300
In a letter to the Soviets, Castro urged them to do this.
What is urged the Soviets to strike first against the U.S.
300
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen have all recently experienced this change.
What is a regime change.
300
The Soviet Union collapsed in this year.
What is 1991.
400

The massive U.S. relief operation that delivered 2.3 million tons of food and supplies to a cut-off city following WWII

Who is the Berlin Airlift?

400

This 1966 Supreme Court ruling established your right to be warned by police that you have the right to remain silent and get an attorney.

What is Miranda v. Arizona? (what is the 5th amendment right?)

400
Cuban leader Fidel Castro distrusted the United States because the U.S. had done this.
What is backed a failed attempt to overthrow Castro.
400
The Soviets moved nuclear missiles to Cuba for these two reasons.
What are to help close the "missile gap" with the U.S. and to prevent another American invasion of Cuba.
400
In 1961, this was built by Communist East Germany to prevent its citizens from leaving, and was later toppled in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall.
500

The terrifying 13-day confrontation over Soviet weapons in Latin America that brought the U.S. and USSR to the absolute brink of nuclear war.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

500

The historic piece of legislation signed by Lyndon B. Johnson that ended Jim Crow laws and protected everyone's right to vote.

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

500
The main challenge President John F. Kennedy faced during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is removing Soviet missiles from Cuba without triggering a nuclear war.
500
Many aspects of Saudi Arabia’s culture are violations of these three American core values.
What are democracy, equality for women, and freedom of religion and expression.
500
Reason the U.S. sent troops to Vietnam.
What is to aid South Vietnam in its war against Communist North Vietnam.
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