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President whose foreign policy was known as "Big Stick Policy."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Led to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
What is the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor?
Secretary of State John Hay's diplomatic policy with European nations following the Boxer Rebellion in China.
What is Open Door Policy?
Limited the number of immigrants to the United States to 4% of each nation's population.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
The first motion picture to include synchronized sound and picture.
What is The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson?
Author of The Jungle, a criticism of the meat-packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The most direct reason for the United State's involvement in World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Allowed for mass production of consumer goods during the 20th Century.
What is the assembly line?
Set limitations on the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in the US and USSR's stockpiles.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I)?
Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy program following his election in 1932.
What is the New Deal?
The leader of the Niagara Movement and co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Fundamentalist confrontation with Modernists over the teaching of the Theory of Evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
These counterculture intellectuals reject the conformity and consumerism of the 1950s.
Who are the Beatniks?
Provided assistance for education, homeownership, and job training for soldiers following World War II.
What is the G.I. Bill?
Organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC or Snick)?
Held up an envelope in Congress that he claimed contained a list of known communists in the Federal Government.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
Organized by the Soviet Union in opposition to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring segregation in education was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Militant civil rights organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in response to police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Author of The Feminine Mystique.
Who is Betty Friedan?
Seven days in 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Developing nations that lack infrastructure, health, and educational systems.
What are Third World countries?
Gave US Presidents the right to take military action to defend American forces anywhere in the world without a declaration of war from Congress.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The Plumbers planting bugs in the Democratic Party Headquarters during the 1972 Presidential Election.
What is the Watergate Scandal?