When Truman sent supplies and resources to Berlin via airplane after Stalin blocked all roads, rivers and rails
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
Reagan's economic policy
What is Reaganomics?
100
African American Civil Rights Leader who believed in civil disobedience (peaceful protests)
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
100
A former WWII general, this president led the United States out of the Korean War.
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
100
Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and through the 1950s
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
Nixon's policy to pull out of Vietnam
What is Vietminztion
200
When the Soviet Union and the United States were competing to create bigger and better weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
200
Hispanic Civil Rights leader
Who is Cesar Chavez
200
The only president to never be elected into office
Who is Gerald Ford?
200
Leader of China during the Communist Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
President Johnson policy to increase the number of troops in Vietnam
What is Escalation?
300
When the World Trade Towers and Pentagon were attacked by terrorists.
What is 9/11?
300
African American Civil Rights Leader who believed that blacks and whites could not live together, therefore the African American community should focus on building up their own communities
Who is Malcolm X?
300
This president dealt with the Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is John F Kennedy?
300
Leader of Cuba during the Communist Revolution
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
United States foreign policy during the Cold War?
What is Containment?
400
Controversy that occurred when we secretly sold weapons to Iran and used the profits to support Nicaragua rebels
What is the Iran Contra Affair
400
When thousands of protests met to encourage the Civil Rights Act, Martian Luther King Jr gave his “I Have a Dream” speech
What is the March on Washington?
400
This president made huge strides towards ending the Cold War but presidency was tainted due to Watergate.
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
Leader of Communist North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh
500
The theory if one country falls to communism then the rest in the surrounding area will fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
500
The United States failed attempt to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
500
This made all laws that prevented blacks from voting illegal
What is the Voting Rights Act?
500
This president focused on human rights
Who is Jimmy Carter?
500
He brought many reforms to the Soviet Union and his resignation is seen as the end of the Soviet Union