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President Carter met with the President from Egypt and Israel for face-to-face negotiations between the two countries, after which an agreement was reached known as the ______ ________ _______.
What is the Camp David Accords
This was built in 1961, separating East and West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall
13 days in October that became the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Name two Axis Power countries
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
This war lasted for nearly twenty years and ended with the Fall of Saigon and the country being taken over by Communists
What is the Vietnam War
The belief that if South Vietnam were to fall to Communism, other countries near it like Cambodia, Laos and Thailand would soon face the same outcome.
What is the "Domino Theory"
This amendment gave women suffrage
What is 19
This was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression. DOUBLE POINTS if you can name its parts (3 R's)
What is New Deal (reform for the banking system, recovery for the economy, and relief for the needy)
This national organization put an embargo on the U.S. in 1973, causing the price of oil to shoot up overnight.
What is O.P.E.C.
An example of this would be a French teenager buying an American comic book
What is cultural diffusion
this type of business maintains total control of an industry, cutting competition and sometimes manipulating prices
What is monopoly
This waterway was acquired for the US by Teddy Roosevelt and gave the US control of the access between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is Panama Canal
Members at the U.S. embassy in Iran were taken hostage and held for 444 days until the day Ronald Reagan took office as President
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis
First female Supreme Court Justice
What is Sandra Day O'Connor
Which piece of legislation desegregated the U.S., requiring equal treatment regardless of race?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This law passed during WWI limited American speech & was upheld under the Schenck v US case
Espionage Act
This natural disaster resulted in over 1500 deaths and catastrophic flooding of New Orleans due to levee failures
What is the Hurricane Katrina
This weapon ended the war against Japan in WWII. Double points if you can name 2 cities where it was used.
What is atomic bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This man pressed for the use of civil disobedience in his fight for civil rights
Who is MLK
This national motto translates to "out of many, one" and represents the unity of the states
What is E Pluribus Unum
This document declared US freedom from BRitain and outlined unalienable rights. Double if you can also name the three unalienable rights listed in this document
What is Declaration of Independence
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Name 2 generals that led American troops in both Europe and the Pacific during WWII.
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. George Patton, Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen. George Marshall.
this act gave 160 acres of free land to any person willing to settle in the American Great Plains and West
What is The Homestead Act
Wrote "The Jungle"
Political scandal ending Nixon's presidency that occurred after five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
What is Watergate?