Cold War and Foreign Policy-8.1
This 13-day nuclear crisis in 1963 between the United States and the Soviet Union caused mass hysteria throughout American society.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This large protest in the nation's capital was highlighted by MLK's famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This region towards the South and West became an area of booming development, housing America's new space program.
What is the Sunbelt?
These policies were promoted by a United States President that focused on stimulating growth, cutting government spending, less regulation, tax cuts and more military spending.
What is Reaganomics?
This event, a series of terrorist attacks by the group Al-Qaeda, resulted immense political, global, and economic effects as the War on Terror started.
This House of Representatives committee aimed to expose communist spies throughout America during the beginning of the Cold War. Led by future president Nixon, what is the full name of this committee?
What is the House Un-American Activities Comittee?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson in a massive step towards social change.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This housing development, started in Long Island, used assembly line techniques to make its cookie cutter homes.
What is Levittown(s)?
This political scandal, known for arms dealings for the security of American hostages, put the Reagan administration in issue with the American public.
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
This controversial law, passed by Congress and known for its potential violation of civil liberties, aimed to surveil potential threats to domestic society.
What is the Patriot Act?
This Cold War theory, named by President Eisenhower, stated that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, they all would fall.
What is the Domino Theory
This domestic policy known as "New Deal II" started social welfare programs and domestic change under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
What is the Great Society?
This term, for a 1950s cultural phenomenon, was the move from cities to suburbia, marked by racial disparity in large metropolitan areas.
What is "white flight"?
This movement, key to voting Reagan into power, were led by influential conservatives such as Jerry Falwell.
What is the Moral Majority?
This war known as the "Soviet's Vietnam" displayed crippling weaknesses in Soviet expansion as the US supported rebel groups that would later morph into Al-Qaeda.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
What was the primary goal of the US-funded Radio Free Europe in the 1970s and 80s?
What is to provide alternative media and place discontent under Soviet control in Eastern/Central Europe?
The brutal murder of 3 civil activists by the KKK as "white resistance" in 1964 two weeks before the signing of the Civil Rights Act was later made into a movie with this name, the same name as the FBI case related to these murders.
What is "Mississippi Burning"?
This deadly disease, emerged after being identified among homosexual men, caused discrimination against this group and soon became a widespread health crisis.
What is the AIDS epidemic?
Despite a conservative push for a smaller government, this Great Society program was deliberately kept by Reagan for its popularity.
What is Medicare?
This policy, following 9/11, gave the US the "right to wage war" against a foreign entity that may threaten the US.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
This 1956 oil-related event placed in a key waterway solidified the United States and the Soviet Union as large players in the Middle East.
What is the Suez Crisis?
This controversial 1962 book exposed the damages to the environment and documented how the indiscriminate use of pesticides affected ecosystems.
What is Silent Spring?
This controversial US policy, similar to containment, was a driving factor in immigration from Latin America. This policy placed brutal dictators in power as economies were devastated and civil wars broke out.
What is interventionism?
This conservative activist was most directly responsible for the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 70s and 80s.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
This repressive dictator was deposed in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, having been incorrectly accused of possession of WMDs.
Who is Saddam Hussein?