The American military strategy used to reach mainland Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
100
The civil war between the northern communists and the pro-democracy southerners at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
100
Nixon's policy to pull American soldiers out while implementing more south Vietnamese soldiers.
What is Vietnaminization?
100
An organized passive protest in which the demonstrators occupy seats prohibited to them.
What are Sit-Ins?
100
An ending of unfriendly or hostile relations between countries.
What is Detente?
200
The American policy of giving Britain war supplies and weapons in stead of direct military assistance.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
200
The American foreign policy to give financial aid to post-WWII european countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Kennedy's domestic policy that included health insurance for the elderly, increased education aid, help for migrant workers, and the department of urban affairs.
What is the New Frontier?
200
The response to Rosa Parks' arrest in which african-americans refuse to use bus transportation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
200
The System of dispersing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
What is Revenue Sharing?
300
The southern and southwestern states of the US where many americans migrated to work in military supply factories.
What is the Sunbelt?
300
Stalin's plan to starve East Berlin in order to keep down the rebellion and escapes to democratic West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
300
When the US and the USSR come close to nuclear war over soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and thereby made scholl segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. The Board of Education?
300
An economic situation in which prices of goods and services continually increase, many people do not have jobs, and businesses are not very successful.
What is Stagflation?
400
The code name for the American Atomic Bomb development.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
Three causes of this were the return of men from war, the GI Bill, and television stigmas.
What is the Baby Boom?
400
LB Johnson's domestic policy that promoted health care, education, stopped poverty, and reformed imigration.
What is the Great Society?
400
The Supreme Court case that ruled abortion is legal in the first trimester, states can put laws against abortion in the second trimester, and abortion is only legal to protect the mother's health in the third trimester.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
A theory that reducing taxes, especially for the rich, will lead to an improved economy.
What is Supply-side Economics?
500
The American policy to bring in Mexicans to work on US farms while most men were away at war.
What is the Bracero Program?
500
The willingness to go to the brink of war to force opponent to back down.
What is Brinkmanship?
500
A theory that if one nation becomes communist controled, the neighboring nations will also become communist controlled.
What is the Domino Theory?
500
The Supreme Court case that ruled that race can be ruled as a factor in school admissions, but quotas are unconstitutional.
What is Bakke v. Regents?
500
The scandal in which Nixon was caught and involved in spying on the democratic headquarters.