The Cold War
This was the failed invasion of Cuba; the goal was to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
After WWII, the US gave money to this country to support their attempt to regain control of Vietnam.
What was France?
This is the name for economic policies that focus on tax cuts for the upper-income brackets and for corporations.
What is trickle-down economics?
(Or supply-side economics)
This is the group who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
Who is al-Qaeda?
This is that military alliance formed during the Cold War. It was anticommunist and the US is a member.
What is NATO?
He was killed by two white men while visting family in Money, Mississippi.
Who was Emmett Till?
This was a tactic the US used that involved razing and burning villages.
What was search and destroy?
This government campaign led to a dramatic increase in the number of people in prisons in the United States.
What is the war on drugs?
This is the organization who told the United States NOT to invade Iraq in 2003.
Who is the United Nations?
This is the US policy based on the idea that we would take action to stop communism from "spreading" to new countries but that we would not go to war with the Soviet Union directly.
What was containment?
The march from Selma to Montgomery was focused on gaining this right.
What was voting?
This was the military of South Vietnam; they were allies of the U.S.
The United Farmworkers Union held a boycott of this item to encourage improvements to working conditions. (There are two possible correct answers.)
What is lettuce?
What are grapes?
This is the word used to describe the process of establishing a government in another country.
This man was a senator who accused many government officials and celebrities of being communists. He had no evidence.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This is the organization that Malcolm X joined immediately following his release from prison.
What was the Nation of Islam?
He was the first leader of South Vietnam; the US initially supported him but later allowed a coup against him.
Who was Ngo Dinh Diem?
The tax cuts of the 1980s and the tax cuts of 2017 both increased this. (Two possible correct answers.)
What is the wealth gap?
What is the national debt or deficit spending?
After the First Gulf War in 1991, U.N inspectors went into the country to find and destroy these.
What are chemical and biological weapons?
The US supported a coup that overthrew this man in Iran. He had been elected as Prime Minster and planned to nationalize the oil industry.
Who was Mohammad Mossaddegh?
Martin Luther King used this greek word to describe the type of love activists have for all humans.
What is agape?
What was invading Cambodia?
During protests about Native American land and rights, the American Indian Movement occupied this famous site.
What is Alcatraz Island?
He was appointed interim leader of Afghanistan after the Taliban fell in 2001. He was elected president in 2002.
Who was Hamid Karzai?