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This general led UN forces in Korea before being fired.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Fear of communism spreading in the U.S. is called this.
What is the Red Scare?
This new music style became popular among teenagers in the 1950s.
What is Rock and Roll?
This program helped veterans buy homes and attend college.
What is the G.I. Bill?
This 1955 event began when a woman refused to give up her seat on a bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This leader promoted Black nationalism and was associated with the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
Who was the president who sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Who was the first president to visit the People's Republic of China?
Who is Richard Nixon?
What major healthcare law was passed under Barack Obama?
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This crisis involved the Soviet blockade of a divided German city and the US brining in supplies by plane.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This senator led aggressive investigations of suspected communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This artist became known as the “King of Rock and Roll.”
Who is Elvis Presley?
This highway system improved transportation across the U.S.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
This 1963 march included the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the name of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.
What is the 26th Amendment?
What problem defined Jimmy Carter’s economy?
What is stagflation?
What terrorist leader was killed in 2011?
Who is Osama bin Laden?
This event brought the world close to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This invention became a central form of entertainment in homes.
What is Television?
his group investigated alleged disloyalty in Hollywood and beyond.
This term describes accusing people of disloyalty without evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
What major global conflict did Bush lead during?
What is the Gulf War?
What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman? The photo of his corpse was published & shocked Americans into fighting for civil rights.
Who is Emmett Till?
What did Gerald Ford do to Nixon?
What is pardon him?
What crisis involved Americans held in Iran?
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
What law increased surveillance after 9/11?
What is the Patriot Act?
This act protected voting rights and banned literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, nearby countries would follow.
What is Domino Theory?
This suburban development symbolized postwar growth.
What is Levittown?
This earlier case upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This event involved nine students integrating a high school in Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
This act outlawed discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What agreement increased trade between U.S., Canada, and Mexico? What did NAFTA increase?
What is NAFTA?
What was Reagan's main economic idea?
What is tax cuts to grow the economy (trickle down economics)?
Nickname given to Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative?
What is Star Wars?
Why was the Camp David Accords a major diplomatic success for Jimmy Carter?
What is it led to peace between Egypt and Israel?
What resource shortage defined the late 1970s?
What is energy crisis?
What event led to the War on Terror?
What are the September 11 attacks?
What was the stated reason for invading Iraq?
What is weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)?
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Richard Nixon is the only president to do what?
What is resign?
What was the core issue in the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
What is perjury/lying under oath?
What does SALT stand for?
What scandal involved secret arms sales to Iran?
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?