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Mass‑produced residential neighborhoods built outside cities
What is the Suburbs?
Civil rights leader who used nonviolent protest to challenge segregation; delivered “I Have a Dream” speech; led March on Washington
What is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
Hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon; spurred global War on Terror and invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003)
What is the 9/11 Terror Attacks?
Required employers to pay men and women equal wages for equal work
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
Expanded health insurance coverage, prohibited denial for pre-existing conditions, and aimed to reduce healthcare costs
What is the Affordable Care Act (2010)?
The sharp increase in birth rates in the United States between 1946 and 1964, leading to rapid population growth and the expansion of suburbs
What is the Baby Boom?
President (1961–1963); handled the Cuban Missile Crisis; created the Peace Corps; supported civil rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr.
What is John F. Kennedy?
Break-in at DNC headquarters and Nixon cover-up led to resignation, spurred distrust in government, and passage of the War Powers Act
What is Watergate?
Overturned “separate but equal,” declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
Communist leader of North Vietnam who fought French colonial rule and U.S. intervention
What is Ho Chi Minh?
Agreement among 35 nations recognizing post‑WWII European borders and pledging respect for human rights, helping to ease East‑West tensions and empower dissidents behind the Iron Curtain.
What is the Helsinki Accords?
President (1969–1974); opened China to U.S. relations; signed SALT I with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev; resigned over Watergate
What is Richard Nixon?
Inspired by Rosa Park's refusal to move, this bus boycott happened in this city
What is Montgomery?
Prohibited literacy tests and poll taxes, empowering federal oversight of elections to ensure equal voting access
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Radical group formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale advocating armed self‑defense and community programs
What is the Black Panthers?
U.S. policy under Presidents Nixon and Ford in the 1970s aimed at easing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and China through diplomacy, arms control treaties (SALT I), and high‑level summits.
What is Detente?
President (1963–1969); signed Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965); escalated Vietnam War; opposed North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh
What is Lyndon B. Johnson?
What event during the Vietnam War eroded public support?
What is the Tet Offensive (1968)?
Prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, and government programs
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Labor leader who co‑founded United Farm Workers to improve conditions for migrant workers
What is Cesar Chavez?
International organization that regulates global trade rules and settles disputes among member nations
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
President (1993–2001); passed NAFTA; intervened in Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milošević; presided over economic growth
What is Bill Clinton?
Congressional ban on Contra funding circumvented by secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran; led to hearings and convictions of senior officials
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
Guaranteed right to a court-appointed attorney for criminal defendants who cannot afford one
What is Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)?
Mediated peace treaty between Egypt and Israel by President Carter, marking first Arab recognition of Israel and return of Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
What is the Camp David Accords?