Protest
Cold War
Presidential Policy
Law
Odds & Ends
100
Civil Rights leader who led marches and designed a non-violent protest movement
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic..."
What is the "Iron Curtain" that Winston Churchill warned about falling across Europe after World War II?
100
The Great Society
What was the anti-poverty program led by Lyndon Johnson?
100
Landmark desegregation case in 1954
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
Competition to get to outer space during the Cold War
What is the Space Race?
200
NOW
What is the National Organization of Women founded by Betty Friedan?
200
A policy designed to provide economic support and military aid to countries to prevent
What is the policy of containment (Truman Doctrine)
200
Human rights instead of policy of containment in foreign policy
What is the foreign policy ideals of Jimmy Carter?
200
Two landmark bills to protect rights of African-Americans in the 1960's
What are the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
26th Amendment
What amendment gave the right to vote to 18 year olds?
300
"Silent Spring"
What is the book on DDT and poisoning the environment by Rachel Carson?
300
NATO
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of Western European nations and USA?(Warsaw Pact was Communist alliance).
300
"Trickle-down economics"
What is the economic plans of Ronald Reagan?
300
Case that established the accused constitutional rights to an attorney adn refusal to answer questions
What is the Miranda case?
300
First man on the moon
Who was Neil Armstrong?
400
Civil Disobedience
What is the method used by civil rights activitists to implement change (sit-ins, for example?
400
Tense stand-off between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1961 during the Kennedy administration.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
War on terror
What is the foreign policy of President George Bush against the Islamic extremists after 9/11?
400
University of California vs. Bakke
What is the case establishing affirmative action as a public policy for preference of minorities and women?
400
Watergate
What is the name of the political scandal that ultimately forced the resignation of President Nixon?
500
Kent State University, Ohio
What is the site of a campus protest against the Vietnam war that resulted in a tragic confrontation between students and police?
500
Senator who led a hunt for Communist infiltrators in American society.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
500
Marshall Plan
What was the aid program designed by Truman's Secretary of State to rebuild Europe after World War II?
500
Roe vs. Wade (1978)
What is case establishing a woman's right to abortion?
500
Relief effort in former German capital after the end of the Second World War
What is the Berlin Airlift?
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