1950s
This stated the US would help any democratic nation who was fighting communism
What was the Truman Doctrine?
CIA trained Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
President Nixon visited him in China and helped improve US/China diplomatic relations
Who was Mao Zedong?
What were the Camp David Accords?
This was President Ronald Reagan's economic plan which featured tax cuts for the wealthy?
What was Reaganomics?
The US came to the aid of South Korea
What was the Korean War?
This gave President Johnson broad powers with regards to troops in Vietnam
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This act reduced the powers the president had previously been awarded with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What was the War Powers Act?
President Carter lost much support after he allowed the Shah of Iran to enter the US for medical treatments and refused to send him back when radicals in Iran demanded; they reacted by taking 52 Americans hostage
What was the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Reagan's proposed program to prevent the US from missile attacks
What was "Star Wars"?
This provided education, unemployment, housing to returning veterans of WWII and is still in use today
What is the GI Bill?
Under President Johnson's Great Society, these 2 insurance programs were formed
What is Medicaid and Medicare?
This organization was formed by Betty Friedan and focused on women's rights
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This agency was created under the presidency of Richard Nixon, and was a result of concern expressed after the release of Rachel Carson's book , Silent Spring
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The widespread accusation of people being communists
What was McCarthyism?
He was a Civil Rights leader who supported Latino workers, and formed the United Farm Workers Union
Who was Cesar Chavez?
This resulted in President Nixon's resignation?
What was Watergate?
The book written by Betty Friedan, which sparked a women's rights movement in the US
What is the Feminine Mystic?
The US entered the Persian Gulf War when this happened
What was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait?
This case over turned Plessy V. Ferguson and ended segregation in public schools
What was Brown V Board of Education?
This was a Communist group who lived in South Vietnam who was responsible for the Tet Offensive
Who were the Vietcong?
This president gave Richard Nixon a full pardon, which resulted in the distrust of the federal government
Who was Gerald Ford?
The Paris Peace Accords ended US involvement
What is the Vietnam War?
He was well prepared for public speaking because he has previously been an actor before entering politics