What is the unfair treatment of African Americans? Or, what is the denial of equal rights to African Americans?
100
The race between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore outer space.
What is the space race?
100
The United States sent soldiers to Vietnam for this reason.
What is the North Vietnamese were fighting to spread communism in South Vietnam?
100
President Nixon was the first American President to visit this country.
What is China?
100
Farms and homes were in ruins, many people did not have food, clothing, and shelter, and much of Eastern Europe fell to Soviet control after this war.
What is WWII?
200
Blacks and whites had to attend separate schools, use separate public facilities, and were socially isolated from each other because of this.
What is segregation?
200
When Soviet troops invaded this country in 1979, it increased Cold War tensions. As a result, the United States refused to compete in the 1980 Olympics hosted in Moscow.
What is Afghanistan?
200
This is what happened after American soldiers left Vietnam.
What is the South Vietnamese continued fighting until they finally surrendered in 1975, and the country was united under a communist government?
200
Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait for this reason.
What is to gain control of Kuwait's oil?
200
This was a long, bitter struggle between the United States and Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
300
This is the law passed by Congress that banned segregation in all public places in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
_________ was the U.S. President in 1980 who believed America should increase our military to fight communism.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
This bird nickname was given the Americans who believed that the Vietnam Conflict was a civil war that should be settled by the Vietnamese people.
What are the doves?
300
This was a war involving the U.S. and its allies against Iraq, triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990
What is the Persian Gulf War?
300
In the 1950's, many Americans moved from the ________ to _________.
What is "cities to suburbs"?
400
In 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech during this historic civil rights event.
What is the March on Washington?
400
In 1991, the fall of this Cold War symbol marked the end of the Iron Curtain in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
Americans who believed that the United States should continue helping South Vietnam fight were nicknamed _____.
What is hawks?
400
President Carter invited leaders of these two countries to try to help bring peace between the two nations.
What are Egypt and Israel?
400
This was the main purpose of forming the United Nations.
What is to create an organization that would promote global cooperation?
500
These are three examples of how African Americans used passive resistance to gain civil rights.
What are marches, sit-ins, freedom rides, speeches, and boycotts?
500
He gradually gave more freedom to Soviet citizens which lead to the fall of communist governments in Eastern European nations, and later to the Soviet Union breaking up into 15 independent republics.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
He was the communist leader who fought for Vietnam's independence from France and to unite the country under a communist government.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
500
He was the highest ranking officer in the U.S. military, and he helped plan the United States led alliance to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
Who is Colin Powell?
500
This is the difference in ideology between Soviets and Americans.
What is Soviets believed in communism and Americans believed in democracy?