Reform Movements
Where was the most popular event of the Hippie Event?
Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Al-Qaeda did this to the United States which caused an increase of National Security?
9/11
What piece of legislature was pushed by the American Legion and passed by Franklin D. Roosevelt following World War 2 to aid veterans in getting an education following the war efforts?
GI Bill
Which new technological development was responsible for rapid connections and transfer of information between people all across the world, intertwining politics, economies and societies globally?
What program, nicknamed "Star Wars", was created by Reagan in 1983 to destroy nuclear missiles?
SDI or Strategic Defense Initiative
What book, written by Betty Friedan, changed the women's movement by describing how traditional life as a housewife was incarcerating?
The Feminine Mystique
The President who introduced the policy of “Vietnamization” to withdraw U.S. troops?
Richard Nixon
What group of policies created by Lyndon B. Johnson aimed at social and economic form through legislation such as Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, and others that ultimately reduced poverty but faced backlash over federal expansion and costliness?
The Great Society
Which agreement was signed into law by U.S President Bill Clinton. It reduced trade barriers between the U.S, Canada and Mexico to facilitate more economic cooperation?
NAFTA or North American Free Trade Agreement
This was an era of anti-commuist fear in the U.S. after the 2nd world war
2nd Red Scare
What trend/event occurred post Great Depression as a result of increased confidence in the US and new family plans?
The Baby Boom
Following World War II, the Korean peninsula was divided at this latitude line, which remained the boundary after the 1953 armistice?
38th Parallel
What Act passed by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 provided $25 billion dollars to build 41,000 miles of roads for the purpose of military ease of movement and strengthening national defense during the Cold War?
National Interstate Highway and Defense Act
Which two alliances formed after the crisis in Berlin and united the U.S. and its allies like Great Britain, France and West Germany among others in a collective security pact. This other military alliance was created in response and included the USSR, East Germany and many Eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary?
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
The Truman Doctrine was created to provide military and economic aid to which two nations?
Greece and Turkey
What Act created the minimum wage?
Fair Labor Standards Act
On January 20, 1981, just minutes after this Republican was inaugurated, Iran released 52 American hostages, ending a 444-day standoff that crippled the presidency of Jimmy Carter?
Ronald Reagan
What economic policy of the 1980s aimed to fix stagflation through lowering government spending, lowering taxes, deregulating industry, and thus widened the wealth gap, increased growth, and increased national debt?
Reaganomics, trickle-down economics, or supply-side policies
Which movement first began to form when OPEC imposed an oil embargo on the U.S., causing an energy crisis. It succeeded in gaining awareness, like the first Earth Day on April 22,1970 and legislation like the Clean Air Act?
The Environmental Movement
Nixon signed which treaty with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms production?
SALT 1
What Act made discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender, race, ethnicity, or religious alignment illegal?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The doctrine that justified U.S. intervention in these conflicts by promising to support “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation”?
Truman Doctrine
What act was passed in response to the launch of Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite, that included $1 billion in investment into research facilities and education to push forward innovation and technology during the Space Race?
National Defense Education Act
Which system involved the World Bank which provided funds for the reconstruction of Europe and the International Monetary Fund which stabilized currencies. It also made American capital cheap and available to nations that adopted capitalism, benefiting the U.S as more American goods were purchased?
Bretton Woods System
Which group of Hollywood actors and screenwriters were blacklisted after refusing to answer questions from congress?
The Hollywood Ten