During or After Cold War?
This led to that
Evolving Political Parties
Economic Development & the American Identity
Movements for Civil Rights
100
This policy which provided aid to Greece and Turkey would help stop the spread of communism in Europe.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
The US joined this military alliance which shifted its foreign policy during the Cold War.
What is NATO?
100
The Warren Court often reached controversial "activist" decisions that dramatically expanded these in the 1950s & 60s.
What are civil rights/liberties-due process?
100
During the 1980s this economic system supported deregulation and tax cuts for American businesses believing wealth would "trickle down".
What is Reaganomics (supply side)?
100
This ruling overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and gave rise to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
What is Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education(Topeka)?
200
Sputnik led to this Cold War Conflict and US moon landing ended it in 1969.
What is the Space Race?
200
This was the goal for the US and UN intervention in Korea during the Cold War.
What is containment?
200
This political party began to shift in the 1960's towards conservatism in response to the counterculture and Great Society.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This domestic policy issue over this resource increased during the Persian Gulf War when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
What is oil?
200
Arguments by conservative women like Phyllis Schlafly prevented this "feminist" legislation from becoming a reality.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
300
The foreign event(s) which led to McCarthyism and the 2nd Red Scare in America.
What is Soviet A-Bomb, fall of China, and/or Korean War?
300
In this Cold War Conflict the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) led to the easing of the policy of brinksmanship.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The decision in Gore v. Bush would settle this major dispute.
What is the Election results of 2000?
300
This was a major criticism of NAFTA and a trend in a globalized world due to lower labor costs overseas.
What is outsourcing jobs?
300
The African American and later Civil Rights Movements were an attempt to live up to these founding principles from the Declaration of Independence.
What is equality - all "men" are created equal?
400
Deregulation and risky banking practices led to the Great Recession which was addressed by this president through Keynesian economic policy and government programs.
Who is Obama?
400
Which president stated his Domino Theory after seeing growing communist influence in Southeast Asia?
Who is Eisenhower?
400
The New Deal and the Great Society have these factors in common.
What is they both increased federal spending(deficit spending) to create new social welfare programs?
400
After 9/11 the US responded with Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and creation of Homeland Security and this controversial law which limited civil rights.
What is the PATRIOT ACT?
400
This major legislation end literacy tests and allowed for the 15th amendment to be carried out without obstacles.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
The Federal Highway/Interstate System was designed for defense but had this other effect -causing "white flight" .
What is suburbanization?
500
The War Powers Act was a result of this previous resolution (law) which left the president's war making powers "unchecked".
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
Nixon attracted the "silent majority" and responded to Johnson's Great Society by implementing this policy initiative.
What is New Federalism?
500
Reagan's "Evil Empire" rhetoric rejects the idea of detente in favor of an arms race with the USSR in this new policy (quote).
What is Reagan's "peace through strength"?
500
This legislation was protested for during MLK's March on Washington will legally end discrimination and segregation in public areas.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?