Who was selected as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the hard-line anticommunists?
Who was NIXON
100
What Attorney General in the early 1960s sought to refocus the attention of the FBI on organized crime and civil rights?
Who is ROBERT KENNEDY
100
The a gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese was known as:
What is VIETNAMIZATION
100
Before being elected president, Ronald Reagan's experience in elected public office had been as governor of _______________
What is CALIFORNIA
100
Who honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations?
Who is ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
200
Who rose to national prominence by charging that dozens of known communists were working within the U.S. State Department?
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy
200
What country did the U.S. enter to prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists?
What is VIETNAM
200
The top secret _________________exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War.
What is the PENTAGON PAPERS
200
To President Reagan, "the focus of evil in the modern world" was _____________
What is the Soviet Union
200
The ______________Act delivered a major blow to labor by outlawing closed (all-union) shops.
What is THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT
300
What Supreme Court decision declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
300
What was the name given to the failed invasion of Cuba when anti-Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military?
What is the BAY OF PIGS INVASION
300
What Doctrine stated that "America's Asian allies would have to fight their wars without large numbers of American troops"?
What is the NIXON DOCTRINE
300
The first woman to receive the vice-presidential nomination of a major political party was ______________
What is Geraldine Ferraro.
300
As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised
What is CORN
400
What was the name given to Eisenhower's and Dulles's foreign policy in the 1950s which aimed at greater reliance on air power and the deterrent power of nuclear weapons than on the army and navy?
What is NEW LOOK
400
President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of what school?
What is The University of Mississippi.
400
President Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser, throughout his administration, was____________
Who was DR. HENRY KISSENGER
400
What scandal involved selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the profits to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras?
What is the Iran-Contra Affair
400
The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of_______
What is NEW ORLEANS
500
What French fortress fell to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in 1954 which led to President Eisenhower refusing to permit any American military involvement?
What is Dien Bien Phu
500
What organization intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in Latin America?
What is the Alliance for Progress
500
The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice _____________, outraged religious conservatives in 1962-1963 when it ruled that prayer and Bible reading in public schools violated the First Amendment.
Who was Earl Warren
500
What country was liberated by the United States & Coalition Forces during the Gulf War?
What is Kuwait
500
What prominent American leader was least enthusiastic about U.S. imperialistic adventures in the 1890s?