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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 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"
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
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.
This president came up with his own idea on how to fix the American economy known as "supply-side economics" or "_______________"
What is Reaganomics
This man from Cuero, Texas won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War
What is Roy Benavidez
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
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 "clear and present danger" test limited what political freedom during World War I?
What is the right to free speech? (Ability to criticize the government.)
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)
This president created the national highway system in a decade of national prosperity (and fear of nuclear war).
What is Dwight Eisenhower
This man founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
Secret foreign policy operation during the Reagan administration that involved trading guns to "terrorists" in exchange for American hostages
What is Iran-Contra Affair
Incident during Harding's presidency in which government officials gave oil fields to private companies after receiving bribes
What is Teapot Dome Scandal
Southern democrats did this to maintain racial segregation in southern states?
What is the opposition to anti-discrimination laws?
Which US president helped usher in the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities (NPR, PBS, etc.), Housing projects, Welfare, and food stamps?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson? (LBJ?)
These were the primary reason given for the annexation of Hawaii.
The US would gain military bases in the Pacific and benefit from new resources like fruit and sugar.
Political scandal that occurred after five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
What is Watergate?