WWII
The name for Germany, Italy, and Japan during the war.
Person who refused to give up a seat on the bus, sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
If one country converts to communism, neighboring countries will follow and convert to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
Soldiers were jeered at or critized in public.
What is how soldiers were treated returning from Vietnam?
This scandal caused President Nixon to resign
What is Watergate?
The "date that will live in infamy".
What is December 7th, 1941?
The social protest of the public transit system in order to fight racial segregation.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Confrontation between the US and USSR over ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The first thing Nixon did as soon as he took office in 1969.
What is start pulling American soldiers out of Vietnam?
The President who pardoned Nixon
Operation Overlord or the invasion at Normandy
What is D-Day?
Speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 'March on Washington'.
What is the 'I have a dream speech'?
Stopping the spread of Communism, but not eliminating it from already communist countries.
What is Containment?
The Vietcong attacked numerous cities in South Vietnam in 1968. This was called what?
What is the Tet Offensive?
Washington Post reporters who broke the story about the Committee's to Re-elects illegal "slush fund" and its links to key White House aides.
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
A diplomatic policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Name of first USSR satellite put into space
What is the sputnik ?
Group in the South that opposed Ngo Dinh Diem's rule
Who are the Viet Cong?
"I am not a crook."
Who is Richard Nixon?
Last German Offensive of the war in Europe
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Phrase coined by Winston Churchill labeling the divide between East and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
What is Ho Chi Minh City?
This person does not have absolute power due to the Constitution's provisions of a checks and balance system.
Who is the President of the United States.