Policy Changes
This 1960s domestic program aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice through programs like Medicare and the Civil Rights Act.
What is the Great Society?
The 1970s economic "nightmare" defined by stagnant economic growth and high inflation.
What is Stagflation?
The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" is inherently unequal in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The first man-made satellite launched into orbit, which caused a "crisis of confidence" in the United States.
What is Sputnik?
The primary U.S. foreign policy of the Cold War, aimed at stopping the spread of Soviet influence.
What is Containment?
This 1944 act provided veterans with low-interest mortgages and money for college, fueling the postwar move to the suburbs.
What is the GI Bill
The 1994 agreement that eliminated trade barriers between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
The 1963 book by Betty Friedan that challenged the idea that women were fulfilled solely by being housewives.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
The federal agency created in 1970 to monitor and enforce standards for air and water quality.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The 13-day standoff in 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war over Soviet missiles in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Ronald Reagan’s economic policy that combined tax cuts for the wealthy with deregulation to stimulate investment.
What is Supply-Side Economics (or Reaganomics)?
The 2008 economic collapse triggered by the burst of the housing bubble and a lack of regulation in the financial sector.
What is the Great Recession?
The labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) and used non-violent hunger strikes to gain rights for migrant workers.
Who is César Chávez?
Originally a Cold War military project (ARPANET), it transformed global communication and e-commerce by the late 1990s.
What is the Internet?
The 1970s policy of "relaxed tension" between the US and the USSR, led by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
What is Détente?
Signed by George H.W. Bush in 1990, this landmark act prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental impairments.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The process of international economic integration that led to the outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing jobs to developing nations.
What is Globalization?
The modern movement focused on systemic racism and police brutality that gained global prominence in 2020.
What is Black Lives Matter?
The field of science involving the manipulation of living organisms to develop new medicines or crops.
What is Biotechnology?
The belief that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to Communism, the neighboring nations would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
The 2010 health care reform that aimed to extend health insurance to nearly all Americans, sparking intense partisan debate.
What is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
The policy of reducing or removing government oversight of industries like airlines, trucking, and banking, popularized in the 1980s.
What is Deregulation?
The 1969 NYC police raid that sparked a riot and is considered the birth of the modern Gay Rights movement.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
The volunteer program started by JFK to send Americans to developing nations to provide technical and educational aid.
What is the Peace Corps?
The Soviet leader who introduced "Glasnost" (openness) and "Perestroika" (restructuring), which led to the end of the Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?