Civil Rights
New Frontier
Vietnam War
Nixon, Ford, Carter
Conservative Revolution
100
What speech was given by Martin Luther King jr. at Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.?
I Have a Dream
100
The American Indian Movement (AIM) was inspired by
The black power movement
100
The belief that, if South Vietnam fell to the Communists, all of Southeast Asia would fall was called
The Domino Theory
100
In May of 1973, public hearings into the Watergate matter were televised to the public by the
U.S. Senate
100
October 1998 marked only the __________ time that the House of Representatives has impeached the President of the United States.
Second
200
The law that Rosa Parks challenged required blacks to...
Give up their seats to white customers on public buses.
200
The political party La Raza Unida was organized to
Improve pay, housing, and job opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
200
The Communists launched the Tet Offensive hoping that
The South Vietnamese would revolt against their American-backed government.
200
On August 5, 1974, President Nixon
Finally released the missing electronic tapes.
200
After his defeat in the Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein refused to cooperate with
U.N weapons inspectors.
300
In 1963, Malcolm X preached
Black Separatism
300
The Great Society was a presidential effort to
Create a more equal America
300
President Nixon's Vietnam policy was to
Make the South Vietnamese army do more of the fighting.
300
President Ford's plan to revive the economy was called
Whip inflation now
300
President and Mrs. Clinton vigorously tried to improve
The American healthcare system
400
The most troubled year of the 1960s was?
1968
400
Japanese Americans won small compensation for their WWII treatment with the help of
JACL
400
Ho Chi Minh was the
the most important leader of the Vietnamese independence movement
400
Gerald Ford has the distinction of being
The nation's only nonelected president.
400
During the Reagan years, what happened to the overall budget deficit?
It increased by about $210 billion.
500
In __________, police arrested blacks just for standing in line to register to vote.
Selma
500
Certain chemicals cause ozone in the atmosphere to
Breakdown, exposing the earth to the sun's rays.
500
President John Kennedy did not want to get involved in a war in Asia because he
Feared that China might enter the war as it had in Korea.
500
Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter was considered a Washington outsider with a
"down home" approach
500
Many Americans felt that the wealthy unfairly flourished during the
Reagan years.
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