Cold War
American Social Change
Economics
Crises!
American Women
The Federal Government
100
In June 1950, forces from the Communist north of this country attacked the south.
What is Korea?
100
This program to help re-establish demobilized WWII troops transformed post-ar America.
What is the GI Bill?
100
Stagnant growth and high inflation =
What is Stagflation?
100
In 1948 Soviet Premier blockaded this European city, forcing the Americans to supply it by air.
What is Berlin?
100
This civil rights leader refused to go sit at the back of the bus.
Rosa Parks
100
This federal program provides affordable health insurance for retirees.
Medicare
200
Theory that if one nation fell to communism, its neighbor would fall too.
What is the "Domino Theory"?
200
This Black leader differed from MLK, in that he fought for equality using "all means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
200
This was a Kennedy-era program that recruited young Americans to go abroad to work on behalf of the less-fortunate.
What is the Peace Corps?
200
By allowing the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States, the Carter administration started a series of events which became the...
What is the Iran-Hostage Crisis?
200
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
These song lyrics are describing the conformity of these neighborhoods:
What is the Suburbs?
200
In the 1950s, President Eisenhower led this major infrastructure effort.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
300
Poverty and desperation breed Communism, so this massive and expensive program rebuilt war-torn Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
In the Nixon era, this agency was established to keep America's water and air clean.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
300
This is the nickname given to Ronald Reagan's economic policies.
What is "Reaganomics"?
300
Together with the United States, these nations form what alliance?
What is NATO?
300
This 2010 act provides lower-cost health insurance to millions of less-fortunate Americans.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
400
Used to describe US-USSR relations in the 1970s, this French word means a lessening of tensions
What is détente?
400
This act during the LBJ years ended four decades of a closed-door policy for non-European peoples seeking a new life in the USA?
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
400
The consortium of Middle Eastern oil producers who punished the US for its Israel policy.
What is OPEC?
400
This Republican Senator from Wisconsin made his name by falsely accusing others of being communists?
Who is Joe McCarthy?
400
Her book "Silent Spring" ignited the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy was the New Deal. This was the name of Harry Truman's agenda.
What is the Fair Deal?
500
Nickname of group of movie actors and directors unfairly accused of being communists.
What is the "Hollywood Ten"?
500
This Johnson-era law made it unlawful to segregate on the basis of race in public places like restaurants and in transportation, like buses and trains? (Note: correct answers must include the year)
What is the The Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
The two-word term used to describe Reagan's idea that if you don't tax the rich, the money they save will somehow filter to the rest of Americans.
What is "trickle-down"?
500
Location where Ohio National Guardsman shot and killed four anti-Vietnam War protesters?
What is Kent State?
500
President Bill Clinton was called this name because he adopted certain Republican ideas instead of a grand agenda like his predecessors?
What is a New Democrat?
600
First and last name of the Soviet Premier who stared down the gun-barrel of nuclear war with President Kennedy?
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
600
Name of America's first suburb
What is Levittown?
600
The Great Recession in 2007-2010 resulted from the bursting of the bubble in what sector of the US economy?
What is housing?
600
This was the second stage of the Korean War; the site of General MacArthur's brilliant counterstrike.
What is Inchon?
600
This presidential election, which hung on a miniscule number of votes, was controversially decided 5-4 by the US Supreme Court
What is Bush v. Gore?