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This countercultural movement, centered in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, peaked during the "Summer of Love" in 1967.
What is the hippie movement?
This U.S. president resigned from office in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This disaster at a Ukrainian nuclear plant in 1986 resulted in massive radiation exposure.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
The 1992 Los Angeles riots were sparked by the acquittal of police officers involved in the beating of this man.
Who is Rodney King?
This hurricane devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, becoming one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This music festival, held in 1969, became a defining moment of the counterculture movement.
What is Woodstock?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in the United States.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This Soviet leader introduced "Perestroika" and "Glasnost," leading to major reforms in the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This technology company released the first web browser, Mosaic, in 1993, helping to popularize the internet.
What is NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)?
The Large Hadron Collider, designed to study particle physics, was completed in 2008 in this European country.
What is Switzerland?
This landmark Supreme Court case established the principle that criminal suspects must be informed of their rights before being interrogated by the police.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This deadly cult, led by Jim Jones, was responsible for the mass suicide of over 900 people in 1978.
What is Jonestown (Peoples Temple)?
This arcade game, featuring a yellow character eating pellets, was released in 1980 and became a gaming icon.
What is Pac-Man?
This international agreement, signed in 1994, created a trade bloc between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
This financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of the housing market, led to a global recession in 2008.
What is the subprime mortgage crisis?
The CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961 was known by this name.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The Iranian Revolution in 1979 led to the overthrow of this U.S.-backed leader.
Who is Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?
This anti-apartheid leader was released from prison in 1990 after being incarcerated for 27 years.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by this domestic terrorist.
Who is Timothy McVeigh?
The 2003 Iraq War was initiated based on claims that this leader possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This influential book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962, helped launch the modern environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
This 1972 event, in which Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage, shocked the world during the Olympics.
What is the Munich Massacre?
The U.S. launched this military operation to remove General Manuel Noriega from power in Panama in 1989.
What is Operation Just Cause?
This country dissolved peacefully in 1993, splitting into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
What is Czechoslovakia?
This social media platform, launched in 2006, introduced the concept of microblogging with 140-character messages.
What is Twitter?