Believe it or not. I will miss you guys.
This party focused on protecting African Americans from police abuse and believed in separatism.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This western alliance was a military foil to the Warsaw Pact.
What is NATO
The Domino Theory.
What is the belief that communism would spread after one nation fell (and so on)?
This decade ushered in the rise of consumerism and suburban life.
What are the 1950's
Claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
What is al Qaeda?
The U.S. foreign policy practice created by George Kennan designed to limit the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This terrorist group is based in Afghanistan and recently regained power.
What is the Taliban?
This event in 1968 marked a turning point and signaled a decline in U.S. public support for the Vietnam War.
What was the Tet Offensive?
The Red Scare.
What is the cultural paranoia and blacklisting of suspected communists during the Cold War?
This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
What is the 24th amendment?
This trail was the key supply route for North Vietnam during the war.
What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
This was dubbed the "New Deal for Europe".
What was the Marshall Plan? (meant to address hunger, poverty, and communism)
Post WWII legislation aimed to assist veterans but criticized for being racially discriminatory.
What is the G.I. Bill?
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 aimed to prevent this (and I'm looking for a specific term here).
What is redlining?
This legislation aimed to enhance national security, but many worried about its negative impact on civil liberties.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
This Act linked federal funding for schools with academic achievement.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
The foreclosure of homes and the failure of banks, led to a stock market crash, which created the....
What is the Great Recession?
26th Amendment.
The two people who formed the United Farm Workers.
Who are Dolores Huerta and Caesar Chavez?
The Legislative Act that protected employees from losing their jobs due to family medical issues.
What is the Family Medical Leave Act?
This Supreme Court case ruled that federal civil rights laws protect LGBTQ+ employees from discrimination.
What is Bostock v. Clayton County?
Halved the number of uninsured (health uninsured) Americans in the United States.
What is the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare)?
Many Americans were upset at his pardon of Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
Clinton's 3rd-Way politics brought together these two ideological groups to win in the 1992 and 1996 presidential races.
What are liberals and independents?
Site of the accident that scared people away from nuclear power for decades.
What is Three Mile Island, PA?