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Believed Communism should be stopped before it could attack and enslave a country
Ronald Reagan
This President's welfare program welfare program was called the New Frontier
John F. Kennedy
He strengthened the military alliance of NATO
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only president to resign from office
Richard M. Nixon
Convinced the Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall and begin Perestroika
Ronald Reagan
President Johnson's plan for social reform
the Great Society
the attempt to return America to the traditional values of church, family, and free enterprise
Reagan Revolution
legislation that guarantees voting, housing, and job rights for all Americans
1964 Civil Rights Act
Roe vs. Wade
system of producing and distributing goods
economy
two events that caused a slowdown in the space program
1. explosion of space shuttle Challenger
2. explosion of space shuttle Columbia
an Islamic terrorist group responsible for the attack on September 11, 2001
el Qaeda
two countries where the US military attacked terrorists in the "War on Terror"
1. Afghanistan
2. Iraq
first black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Supreme Court Justice who stressed the importance of moral character
Clarence Thomas
first American to orbit the earth
John Glen
first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
first black President of the US
Barack Obama
lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus, which led to a change in segregation laws
Rosa Parks
first woman appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor
doctor who developed the polio vaccine
Jonak Salk
one of the greatest opera singers of her time
Marian Anderson
helped bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
Jimmy Carter
black minister active in the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy