This was the first Soviet satellite, it ushered in a period known as the "Space Race", and scared the dickens out of Americans with its incessant beeping.
What is Sputnik?
100
Landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, essentially overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision allowing for separate but equal in regard to segregated public facilities - this decision was aimed at integrating schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
100
Belief that if Vietnam or Korea (or anybody else) fell to Communism, other countries would too
What is Domino Theory?
100
Inflation + Unemployment=
What is stagflation?
100
A/C and other technological changes, in addition to the introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), led to a huge migration of people from the North and Midwest to what region?
What is the Sunbelt?
200
The name for the 20 year period of significantly higher birth rates in the US following WWII.
What is the Baby Boom?
200
NAACP lawyer in Brown v Board of Education - he would later become th first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
While this was a major military victory for the United States , this 1968 North Vietnamese campaign showed the American people that the war was far from over.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
The central scandal of Nixon's presidency, the national offices of the Democratic party were broken into here and the president denied any knowledge of wrongdoing.
What is Watergate?
200
I can no has affordable health care by 2014? NO! YOU HAS TO HAS AT LEAST SOME HEALTHCARE!
What is Obamacare?
300
As a Senator from Wisconsin, he claimed to have names of 100's of Communist infiltrating the US gov't - started a "witch hunt" to find them.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Group founded in Oakland, CA - wanted an end to police brutality, were armed, demanded reparation for years of oppression
What is the Black Panthers?
300
He was president in 1965, and authorized the first official American troop deployment in Vietnam. Would fail to win over the American people for the war's cause.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
The term for "drawing down" tensions between the US and the Soviet Union during the 1970s, led to non-proliferation agreements and SALT I.
What is detente?
300
Yay! More taxes! Said no one ever.
This group likens themselves to the original American patriots, and their name even serves as an acronym describing their dislike for taxation.
What is the Tea Party?
400
Policy for US to give massive aid to European countries to rebuild their economy after WWII in attempt to prevent spread of Communism
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The year Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
What is 1968?
400
Not officially a part of the North Vietnamese Army, this guerrilla fighting force was most successful leading hit and run attacks against American forces, and hiding in plain sight.
What is the Viet Cong?
400
This Supreme Court decision relied on the right to privacy, and in so doing, portrayed abortion as a decision that should be left to women with the advice of her physician.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
One does not simply walk into this country, right Blackhawk Down? American aid and intervention efforts failed to stop a terrorizing civil war here, which resulted in the loss of over 500,000 lives.
What is Somalia?
500
The members of this organization vowed to collectively resist any aggressive actions by the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.
500
Rosa Parks' arrest set off a boycott in this city that lasted a little over 1 year, and effectively ended segregation on public transportation.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
500
This was the name of the massive bombing offensive led against North Vietnam.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?
500
He organized a nationwide boycott of grapes to protest conditions for migrant farmers.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
Ceiling cat isn't the only one watching your moves. This 2001 legislation greatly expanded the government's authority in the fight against terrorism.