Civil Rights
Court case that ended segregation in school.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
LBJ's domestic program that set out to improve the living conditions of Americans.
What is the Great Society?
The study leaked by the NYT that displayed the dishonesty of the government surrounding the involvement in Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The organization that sets and controls the supply and prices of oil around the world.
What is OPEC?
The terrorist attack that directly led to the War in Afghanistan.
What is 9/11?
The group that encouraged Black Power and self-defense during the Civil Rights Movement
Who are the Black Panthers?
Federal program that provides health care for the elderly and disabled.
What is Medicare?
The consequence of the living room war which displayed the difference between what was actually happening in Vietnam.
What is the credibility gap?
The illegal break-in and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee offices by the Committee to Reelect the President.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Supreme court case that indirectly decided the outcome of the election of 2000.
What is Bush v. Gore?
The legislative result of the Freedom Summer
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Movement that rejected mainstream American society and focused on peace, love, and individual freedom
What is counterculture?
The protest of the Vietnam War that led to the death of 4 individuals after the National Guard was deployed onto a university campus.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
The final leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Reason Bill Clinton was impeached in February of 1999.
What is perjury?
Organization that led the effort to desegregate interstate buses.
What is CORE?
The Chief Justice who led the Supreme Court to establish major national protections of civil rights and liberties.
Who is Earl Warren?
Location of the secret bombing campaign Nixon ordered to cut off supply lines to the Vietcong
What is Cambodia?
The incident in which Americans at a US embassy in Tehran were held captive for 444 days.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Reason for the 2008 Great Recession.
What is the collapse of the housing market?
The effort that inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Court case that applied the 6th amendment to the states.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The act that gave LBJ the powers of war without ever declaring war on Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The invasion of this country led to the start of the Persian Guld War.
What is Kuwait?
The whistleblower who revealed how the NSA was using a clause of the Patriot Act for secret mass surveillance of the American people.
Who is Edward Snowden?