1920s
Emerged as the defining music of the 1920s
What was jazz?
An international peacekeeping organization founded at the end of World War II
What is the United Nations?
President Kennedy's domestic agenda
What was New Frontier?
The reason President Clinton was impeached
What is perjury?
This Civil Rights leader was the face of the non-violent movement known for his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A trial about teaching evolution in Tennessee, it became seen as a clash between modernism and traditionalism
What was the Scopes Trial?
A military alliance led by the United States to contain communism
What is NATO?
The president that declared war on poverty with the Great Society
Who was President Lyndon Johnson?
Dubbed the "Star Wars" program, this was a plan in the 1980s to use lasers and satellites in space to shoot down missiles
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
Founded in 1942, this Civil Rights group was the first to use non-violent resistance.
What was CORE?
Disillusioned writers of the 1920s
Who were the Lost Generation writers?
A military alliance led by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
What was the Warsaw Pact?
This was created in 1970 to enforce environmental laws in the United States
What was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This was President Reagan's economic policy based on supply-side economics to deal with stagflation
What was Reaganomics?
This Civil Rights group was founded in 1957 under the leadership of Southern religious leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the SCLC?
This 1920s writer wrote The Great Gatsby
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
$12 billion in aid provided by the United States to help rebuild Europe following World War II
What was the Marshall Plan?
The Washington Post reporters who exposed President Nixon's role in the Watergate Scandal
The American secret sale of weapons to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua
What was the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Signed by Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, this federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1000 U.S. Army paratroopers to assist them in integrating Central High School in Little Rock.
What was Executive Order #10730?
US Attorney General responsible for the 1st Red Scare in the 1920s
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
This divided North & South Korea following World War II
What was the 38th parallel?
This president did not seek re-election because of the Vietnam War
This war followed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
What was the Persian Gulf War?
An attorney of Linda Brown who later served as the first African American on the Supreme Court
Who was Thurgood Marshall?