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A social movement in the 2010s--2020s centered on social and political rights for black Americans and people of color.
Black Lives Matter
Which countries shared control over West Berlin?
What was the main concept of trickle-down economics?
Economic success can "trickle-down" from the upper classes to the lower; when the upper class business creators get economic support, the entire economy benefits.
A series of attacks in Washington D.C. and New York City that sparked the beginning of the Afghan War and Bush's War on Terror
9/11 Attacks
Which countries fought in the War of 1812?
Great Britain and America
A social counterculture movement in the 1960s and 70s that prioritized radical social change and cultural liberation
Hippies
What was McCarthyism?
Named after a Republican senator during the Red Scare that accused federal employees of socialist ties, creating a period of hysterical and often unfounded accusations
A far-reaching reform program of the Johnson administration that included programs like Medicare and federal aid to education
Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs
What were the two sites that American forces dropped nuclear bombs at the conclusion of WWII?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When did America first have "greenback" currency?
The Civil War
What space program intended to land American astronauts on the moon?
The Apollo program
What was the major issue of the Watergate crisis?
Richard Nixon used presidential authority and FBI resources to spy on Democratic opponents staying in the Watergate hotel.
An economic domestic program proposed by Harry Truman expanding social security benefits and fair employment practices, ultimately rejected by Congress
The Fair Deal
A famous WWII propaganda figure that symbolized the new importance of the female industrial worker
Rosie the Riveter
What killed William Henry Harrison?
A long inauguration speech and/or contaminated White House water
Who was Malcolm X?
A black Muslim American activist who was assassinated in 1965 by political rivals
An incident involving an American U-2 spy plan that was shot down over Russian territory, heightening tensions between the two countries
The U-2 Crisis
What was the Marshall Plan?
A plan to provide economic assistance to all European nations after WWII in order to revive trade opportunities for America
A Congressional resolution following a reported attack on American destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats that Lyndon Johnson used to escalate conflict in Vietnam
The Gulf of Tonkin resolution
The purchase of a strip of land from Mexico that now comprises parts of southern Arizona and California.
A Supreme Court case that ruled that segregating public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional
Brown v. the Board of Education
List at least four global/diplomatic doctrines named after presidents throughout American history.
Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Truman Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine, Bush Doctrine
Rising unemployment, high inflation, and slow economic growth in the 1970s.
stagflation
A 1955 agreement formalizing alliances between communist governments in Eastern Europe
The Warsaw Pact
Name the four presidents who were assassinated.
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy