Challenges of the 21st Century
What terrorist event occurred on September 11, 2001?
9/11
What two nations emerged as global superpowers after WWII?
USSR and USA
What 1954 Supreme Court decision declared segregation in schools unconstitutional?
Brown V. Board
What government committee investigated suspected communists in Hollywood?
HUAC
What year was Ronald Reagan first elected President of the United States?
1980
What law expanded U.S. government surveillance powers after 9/11?
USA PATRIOT Act
What was the primary goal of the U.S. containment policy?
Stop the spread of communism
What event was sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Alabama?
What U.S. senator became famous for accusing people of being communists without evidence?
Joseph McCarthy
Reagan’s economic policy aimed to reduce the role of what?
Government inclusion in the Economy
What new federal department was created in 2002 to protect the U.S. from terrorism?
Department of Homeland Security
What 13-day event in 1962 brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war?
Cuban Missle Crisis
What organization did MLK Jr. form in 1957 to coordinate civil rights efforts?
SCLC (Southern Christain Leadership Conference)
What law made it illegal to support totalitarian governments in the U.S.
McCarran Internal Security Act
What term was used to describe the combination of high inflation and unemployment in the 1970s?
Stagflation
Name one major U.S. military conflict that followed 9/11
Afghanistan or Iraq War
What treaty signed by Nixon and the USSR limited anti-ballistic missiles?
SALT I
What 1936 event included Martin Luther King Jr's I havea dream speech?
March on Washington
What major event in 1949 was viewed as a failure of U.S. containment?
The Fall of China to Communism
What happened to the federal debt during Reagan’s presidency?
Tripled due to tax cuts and increased military spending
What global pandemic began in 2020 and challenged public health systems worldwide?
COVID-19
What were Gorbachev’s two major reform policies in the 1980s?
Glasnost and Perestrokia
What law, passed in 1964, banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What Cold War conflict began in 1950 and ended in a stalemate along the 38th parallel?
The Korean War
Name one conservative movement from the 1970s that supported Reagan’s rise.
Heritage Foundation/New Right movement/Moral Majority