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1970s
1980s
1990s
Miscellaneous
100
This term means a "lessening of tensions"
What is detente?
100
This term describes the theory of the equality of men and women.
What is feminism?
100
One major factor that contributed to Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Carter in 1980
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
100
This marked the end of the Cold War
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
100
who decided the outcome of the 2000 election
Who is the Supreme Court?
200
The person who helped inspire federal legislation with his speech at the March on Washington
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
The reason that the Equal Rights Amendment passed Congress in 1972 but was never added to the US Constitution.
What is failed in the ratification process?
200
The area in which the Reagan administration rapidly increased spending
What is the American military?
200
How the Persian Gulf War began
What is Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait?
200
The 2 presidents who tried to get a universal health care plan
Who are Truman and Clinton?
300
The president who committed NASA and the nation to the goal of landing a man on the moon within the decade
Who is JFK?
300
The strategy used by Cesar Chavez to improve migrant working conditions
What is boycotting?
300
The group who was stuck with the cost of bailing out the savings and loan in the S&L Scandal
Who are the American taxpayers?
300
What President Bush agreed to do in order to deal with the recession of the early 1990s
What is raising new taxes as part of a deficit-reduction plan?
300
The countries in which NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) applied to
What are the US, Canada, and Mexico?
400
The Soviet response to Kennedy's authorization of a military buildup to show that the US would not be bullied by the Soviet Union
What is beginning to build the Berlin Wall?
400
The book, Silent Spring, exposed the harmful use of this
What are chemicals such as DDT?
400
This group wanted to restore to society what they saw as Christian values.
Who is the Moral Majority?
400
The person Bush nominated to the Supreme Court that angered many moderates and liberals.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
400
George Bush's promise, made during his campaign for President in 1988
What is not raising taxes?
500
Established by Kennedy to discourage the spread of communism in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Alliance for Progress?
500
The consumer movement of the 1960s & 1970s developed mostly because of this person
Who is Ralph Nader?
500
The first female Justice of the US Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
500
The country in Central America that Bush laughed a lightning attack against because its leader was smuggling cocaine into the US
What is Panama?
500
The goal of Reagan's policy toward Nicaragua
What is overthrowing its Marxist (communist) government?
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