THE EARLY COLD WAR
This 1947 policy committed the U.S. to supporting 'free peoples'
resisting subjugation, specifically aimed at helping Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that 'separate but equal' has no
place in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed.
This LBJ program provided health insurance for the elderly.
What is Medicare?
This scandal, involving a break-in at the DNC headquarters, eventually
led to Richard Nixon's resignation.
What was the Watergate Scandal?
Reagan's economic policy, which focused on tax cuts for the wealthy
and deregulation, is often called this.
What is Supply-side Economics? (Reaganomics)
This senator from Wisconsin became the face of the Second Red Scare
by claiming to have a list of communists working in the State Department.
This 1965 act eliminated literacy tests and provided federal oversight of
registration in areas with a history of discrimination.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson helped launch the modern
environmental movement by exposing the dangers of pesticides.
What is Silent Spring?
Economic conditions in the 1970s were characterized by this
phenomenon.
What is Stagflation?
Reagan's proposed space-based missile defense system (SDI) was
mockingly nicknamed this.
What was "Star Wars"?
In response to the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union and its Eastern
European satellites formed this military alliance in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, this organization advocated
for self-defense and 'Black Power' rather than nonviolent integration.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This 1964 resolution served as the 'blank check' that allowed LBJ to
escalate the war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1979 event in the Middle East led to 52 Americans being held
captive for 444 days.
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
This Soviet leader's policies of 'Glasnost' and 'Perestroika' helped lead
to the end of the Cold War.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
This 1950 NSC document argued that the U.S. needed a massive buildup
of conventional and nuclear arms to meet the Soviet threat.
What is NSC-68?
This 1963 document, written from a jail cell, defended the strategy of
nonviolent resistance to racism.
What is the Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice presided over a period of 'judicial
activism' that expanded civil liberties.
Who was Earl Warren?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide.
This 1980s scandal involved the illegal sale of weapons to Iran to fund
rebels in Nicaragua.
What was the Iran-Contra Affiar?
President Eisenhower's foreign policy relied on this strategy, which
threatened the use of nuclear weapons to respond to any Soviet aggression.
What is "Brinkmanship"?
This 1948 executive order by President Truman ended segregation in
which American institution?
What is the US Military?
This 1965 Act ended the discriminatory 'national origins' quota system
that had been in place since the 1920s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1965?
President Nixon's visit to this country in 1972 was a major foreign
policy breakthrough.
What was China?
The lack of government assistance on this crisis caused some criticism of the Reagan administration.
What was the beginning of the AIDs epidemic?