COLD WAR CONFLICTS
This policy aimed to prevent communism from spreading to other countries, particularly in Europe and Southeast Asia.
What is Containment?
Rosa Parks is famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking the _____ _____ _____.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
President Eisenhower's _____ _____ Act revitalized US roads and highways for car travel in the 1950s.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
The _____ _____ was a political cover-up of the 1972 burglary of Democratic National Committee information that led to President Nixon's resignation.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This terrorist group, led by Osama Bin Laden, hijacked four American Airlines flights on September 11, 2001.
What is Al-Qaeda?
President Kennedy ordered a blockade of this Caribbean island nation in 1962 to prevent nuclear missiles from being delivered.
What is Cuba?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional and ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The _____ _____ Act (1944) allowed WWII veterans to attend college and access affordable housing and business loans.
What is the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (or GI Bill)?
Senator _____ _____ led a campaign against accused communists in the US during the 1950s, creating "blacklists" of suspected enemies.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The _____ _____ gave law enforcement agencies more authority to surveil suspected terrorists following 9/11, but was criticized for invading American privacy.
What is the Patriot Act?
This military alliance was formed to provide mutual defense among democratic nations in response to Soviet expansion in Europe.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for _____ _____, the practice of purposefully breaking laws believed to be immoral.
What is Civil Disobedience (or nonviolent resistance)?
President Reagan's economic policy of cutting taxes to support businesses and increase wages was called _____ _____ _____ or Supply-Side Economics.
What is Trickle Down Economics?
In 1989, this structure collapsed, symbolizing the end of the Cold War and the division between communist and democratic Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This real-estate mogul, turned reality-tv star, won the 2016 Republican primary election, and then the general election despite losing the popular vote.
Who is Donald Trump?
The _____ Doctrine, promised US support to democratic European countries threatened by communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The _____ _____ Act of 1965 empowered African American voters by ending literacy tests and other voter disenfranchisement techniques.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
President Obama signed into law _______ _______ Act (also known as __________) to guarantee over 40 million Americans health insurance. While altered, this healthcare expansion continues today.
President Clinton was impeached for _____ (lying under oath) and obstruction of justice, but was acquitted by the Senate.
What is perjury?
The _____ _____ (2008-2009) was caused by a collapse in the mortgage market and risky bank loans, resulting in trillions of dollars lost in investments and retirements.
What is the Great Recession?
This Asian peninsula was divided at the 38th Parallel following a bloody three-year civil war, which involved other world powers like the U.S. and China.
What is Korea?
This civil rights leader was a founder of the Nation of Islam and argued in favor of an "armed defense" for African Americans struggling against racism.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. waged an almost 20 year conflict in which Arab nation?
What is Afghanistan?
The _____-_______ _____ was a secret military operation where the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to fund anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua without Congressional approval.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This former vice president went against George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. Despite winning the popular vote, he lost the electoral vote after losing by just 537 votes in the state of Florida.
Who is Al Gore?