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This geopolitical theory suggested that if one nation in a region fell to communism, its neighboring countries would quickly follow
What is the Domino Theory?
This secret FBI surveillance program grew out of Red Scare fears and was used to aggressively monitor civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is COINTELPRO?
The 1960 presidential campaign was fundamentally transformed by the introduction of this media event, which highlighted the sharp visual contrast between JFK and Richard Nixon.
What are the first televised presidential debates?
Running as a Washington outsider during a period of intense political instability, he won the presidential election of 1976.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
This 1990 military invasion by Iraq directly triggered the international intervention known as the Persian Gulf War.
What was the invasion of Kuwait?
This covert 1954 CIA operation successfully overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala
What is Operation PBSUCCESS?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case completely dismantled the "separate but equal" doctrine in American public education
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
To cultivate a political narrative of "youthful progress," John F. Kennedy relied heavily on media image and these types of high-profile public backings.
What are celebrity endorsements?
This informal 1980s political alliance combined business leaders and religious groups to target progressive social reforms and shift the U.S. political landscape.
What is the New Right?
This tragic 1995 domestic terror attack carried out by an anti-government extremist destroyed the Murrah Federal Building.
What is the Oklahoma City bombing?
Despite the anti-communist stance of the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. declined to offer military support to this leader's government during the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
Who was Imre Nagy?
He served as the brilliant lead counsel for the NAACP during the Brown v. Board case before later becoming the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
In the early 1970s, this organization placed an oil embargo on the United States, triggering a massive domestic energy crisis.
What is OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
This 1980s federal economic policy relied heavily on supply-side economics, massive tax cuts, and deregulation.
What is Reaganomics?
A tragic 1999 mass shooting at this Colorado high school permanently altered national discussions regarding school safety and gun control.
What is the Columbine High School shooting?
This term describes the global system during the Cold War where global power and alliances were strictly divided between two opposing superpowers: the U.S. and the USSR
What is bipolarity?
This discriminatory housing practice involved drawing lines on maps to systematically deny mortgages and economic resources to Black neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
This federal agency was established by President Richard Nixon in 1970 in response to growing public demands for environmental reform.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This legislative amendment explicitly prohibited the Reagan administration from providing federal funds or military aid to the Contras in Nicaragua.
What is the Boland Amendment?
The presidential election of 2008 marked a major historic milestone with the victory of this major party nominee.
Who was Barack Obama?
This 1955 military alliance was formed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states to solidify the communist bloc against the democratic West.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This group of African American students faced massive physical and social resistance while trying to integrate a Arkansas high school, requiring federal troops for their protection.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
The discovery of secret White House audio tapes during this political scandal ultimately forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.
What is the Watergate scandal?
This monumental global event took place in 1991, officially ending the Cold War and leaving the United States as the world's sole superpower.
What is the collapse (or dissolution) of the Soviet Union?
This massive financial crisis unfolded during the final months of the 2008 campaign, heavily influencing voter behavior and defining the theme of the election.
What is the Great Recession (or the 2008 Financial Crisis)?