These were the two opposing economic ideologies or believes that set America and Russia apart.
What are capitalism and socialism?
100
This Supreme Court case resulted in legalization of Jim Crow Laws and the idea of separate but equal.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
100
This person is the first person to step foot on the moon.
What is Neil Armstrong?
100
This man was the communist leader of North Vietnam. He helped free Vietnam from French colonial rule.
What is Ho chi Minh?
100
Allegation that Nixon had been secretly tapping conversations in the oval office. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
200
This states that if the U.S doesn’t fight communism, then countries will fall one by one to communism like dominos.
What is the dominos effect?
200
These were laws that implemented segregation in schools, parks, transportation, and hospitals.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
200
This event occurred when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent nuclear weapons to Cuba for protection. It created an alarm in the nation.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
These guerrilla fighters of the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam wanted to unify all of Vietnam under communist rule. They used warring tactics like tunnels, landmines, and ambush.
What is the Vietcong?
200
This movement by young people promoted in the 60s and 70s promoted peace, equality, the use of drugs and rejected materialism.
What is Counterculture?
300
This doctrine states that America would aid countries in the world who are fighting communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
300
This man called for African Americans to use any means necessary to fight segregation and break away from white society.
What is Malcolm X?
300
This person is the first person to step foot on the moon.
What is Yuri Gangarin?
300
This group with the help of their ally, the Vietcong won the Vietnam war implementing communist rule throughout Vietnam.
What is North Vietnam?
300
This protected women’s reproductive rights.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
400
After the Korean War, many soldiers returned home and started families creating a housing shortage. This real estate innovation was the solution because a lot of houses can be built at the same time.
What are suburbs?
400
This event in Montgomery was a direct result of Rosa Parks’ refusal to leave her seat for a white man. It was led by MLK and it led to the city agreeing to change the law allowing African Americans to sit anywhere.
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
LBJ was responsible for the creation if these two healthcare programs.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
400
This attacks were lunched by the Vietcong on multiple towns across South Vietnam on a buddhist holiday.
What are the Tet attacks?
400
During the Iranian revolution, a group of American citizens were held hostage in Iran in this known even.
What is Iran Hostage Crisis?
500
This country invaded South Korea in 1950, violating the 28th parallel agreement set at the end of WWII.
What is North Korea?
500
This act was passed in 1964, 3 months after JFK’s assassination. It ended segregation, forbade discrimination, and allowed African Americans to vote freely.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
This invasion of Cuba planned by Eisenhower and led by JFK to overthrow Fidel Castro resulted in a defeat of Cuban exiles.
What is Bay of Pigs?
500
President Nixon’s plan to transfer front-line fighting to the South Vietnamese.
What is Vietnamization?
500
These are major events that happened in the last 40 years (Name 3).
What are are 9/11, Reaganomics, collapse of the Soviet Union, Watergate Scandal, Camp David Accords, Detente with China, Desert Storm, and Iran Hostage Crisis?