In June 1950, forces from the Communist north of this country attacked the south.
What is Korea?
What is the GI Bill?
Stagnant growth and high inflation =
What is Stagflation?
In 1948 Soviet Premier blockaded this European city, forcing the Americans to supply it by air.
What is Berlin?
This civil rights leader refused to go sit at the back of the bus.
Rosa Parks
This federal program provides affordable health insurance for retirees.
Medicare
Theory that if one nation fell to communism, its neighbor would fall too.
What is the "Domino Theory"?
This Black leader differed from MLK, in that he fought for equality using "all means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
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?
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?
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?
In the 1950s, President Eisenhower led this major infrastructure effort.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
What is the Marshall Plan?
In the Nixon era, this agency was established to keep America's water and air clean.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
This is the nickname given to Ronald Reagan's economic policies.
What is "Reaganomics"?
Together with the United States, these nations form what alliance?
What is NATO?
This 2010 act provides lower-cost health insurance to millions of less-fortunate Americans.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Used to describe US-USSR relations in the 1970s, this French word means a lessening of tensions
What is détente?
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?
The consortium of Middle Eastern oil producers who punished the US for its Israel policy.
What is OPEC?
This Republican Senator from Wisconsin made his name by falsely accusing others of being communists?
Who is Joe McCarthy?
Her book "Silent Spring" ignited the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy was the New Deal. This was the name of Harry Truman's agenda.
What is the Fair Deal?
Nickname of group of movie actors and directors unfairly accused of being communists.
What is the "Hollywood Ten"?
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?
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"?
Location where Ohio National Guardsman shot and killed four anti-Vietnam War protesters?
What is Kent State?
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?
First and last name of the Soviet Premier who stared down the gun-barrel of nuclear war with President Kennedy?
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Name of America's first suburb
What is Levittown?
The Great Recession in 2007-2010 resulted from the bursting of the bubble in what sector of the US economy?
What is housing?
This was the second stage of the Korean War; the site of General MacArthur's brilliant counterstrike.
What is Inchon?
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?