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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

100

This event in 1948 involved the allied countries airdropping supplies into a blockaded city 

Berlin airlift 

100

13 days in October that became the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis

100

Name two Axis Power countries

What is Germany, Japan, Italy

100

This 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

200

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"

200

A ___________ _____ was caused by the American people feeling as though our government was lying to them, which led to many Americans losing faith in our governments reliability.

What is Credibility Gap

200

This was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression.

What is New Deal (reform for the banking system, recovery for the economy, and relief for the needy)

200

The date of October 29th, 1929 is known as ? 

Black Tuesday 

200

This president came up with his own idea on how to fix the American economy known as "supply-side economics" or "_______________"

What is Reaganomics

300

This man from Cuero, Texas won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War

What is Roy Benavidez

300

When Nixon took over as president during the Vietnam War, he incorporated _____________, which was the gradual removal of U.S. troops putting more of the war effort back onto the South Vietnamiese

What is Vietnamization

300

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

300

First female Supreme Court Justice

What is Sandra Day O'Connor

300

Which piece of legislation desegregated the U.S., requiring equal treatment regardless of race?

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

400

This case desegregated public schools 

Brown v. Board of Education 

400

This started following Saddam Hussein's (Iraq) invasion of Kuwait for oil and his refusal to withdraw from the country following requests from the United Nations to do so.

What is the Persian Gulf War (1990)

400

This president created the national highway system in a decade of national prosperity (and fear of nuclear war).

What is Dwight Eisenhower

400

This man founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Who is W.E.B. DuBois

400

Secret foreign policy operation during the Reagan administration that involved trading guns to "terrorists" in exchange for American hostages

What is Iran-Contra Affair

500
These organizations fight for better working conditions of workers 

Labor Unions 

500

This law placed Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War 2 

Executive Order 9066

500
Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces with this law 

Executive Order 9981 

500

Wrote the "Feminine Mystique"

Who is Betty Friedan

500

Political scandal that occurred after five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. 

What is Watergate?

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