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This US President was the first to visit the capital cities of both China and the Soviet Union.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The destruction of "Black Wall Street" during the 1920s.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
Provided money to European nations to purchase American goods for rebuilding following World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Insures bank deposits up to $200,000 against bank failures.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
The scientific validation for the United States absorbing colonial territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
What is Social Darwinism?
The Red Tails, the most successful fighter escort squadron in World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The rapid expansion of the US population from 1946-1964.
What is the Baby Boom?
The concept that no one can win an all-out nuclear war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Opposed by Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority, this failed to become an amendment to the US Constitution during the 1970s.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
Developed originally in California, then franchised by Ray Kroc as McDonald's.
What is fast food?
President of the Soviet Union whose Glastnost and Peristroika policy hastened the end of the communist bloc in Eruope.
Violence in the Freedom Summer registration push in Mississippi would lead to this law in 1965.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The belief that if the United States allowed on nations in Southeast Asia to become communist, the rest would follow.
What is Domino Theory?
Gave unprecedented authority to Federal Agencies to bug, track, and profile American citizen in the name of security.
What is the Patriot Act?
Lyndon Johnson's push for Medicare, Medicaid, and Head Start.
What is the Great Society?
Author of the novel Silent Spring who warned of the environmental dangers of industrial pesticides.
Who is Rachel Carson?
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
The idea that if corporations and the wealthy were given tax breaks, it would create more jobs for the working class.
What is supply side economics or trickle down economic theory?
Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion during the 1970s, overturned during the 2010s.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The gap between men's and women's salaries for the same occupation.
What is income inequality?
Folk-Rock singer whose music called for cultural revolution during the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Who is Bob Dylan?
The political shift to the right following the "Me Decade" of the 1970s in the United States.
What is the Reagan Revolution?
When countries agree to prohibit tariffs on the goods they exchange.
What is a Free Trade Agreement?
Set taxes on imports that accelerated the collapse of the US economy during the 1930s.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Organized by Martin Luther King Jr. to oppose segregation and Jim Crow laws in the southern United States.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?