Modern America
This 1972 scandal, involving a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, shook American politics.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This 13-day standoff, 90 miles of the coast of Florida, led to the establishment of the hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Most associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and his nonviolent methods, this person became the face of the civil rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, this legislation authorized an infrastructure that established a network of roads in the United States.
What is the Federal Highway Act (or the Interstate Highway Act)?
The use of advertisements to persuade people to think one way or another.
What is propaganda?
Passed shortly after the September 11 attacks, this 2001 Act expanded U.S. law enforcement’s abilities to surveil, prevent, and investigate terrorism-related acts.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
The United States engaged in a Space Race with the Soviet Union when on October 4, 1957, they launched the first satellite to orbit earth.
What is Sputnik?
This presidential directive, signed by President Truman on July 26, 1948, abolished discrimination “on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin” in the United States Armed Forces. It ultimately led to the desegregation of the US army.
What is the Executive Order 9981?
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, this act provided veterans with benefits for education, loan guarantees for homes and businesses, and unemployment compensation.
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944)?
In August 1945, these two Japanese cities were targeted by the United States with atomic bombs, leading to the eventual end of World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This trade deal, effective from 1994 until its replacement by the USMCA in 2020, eliminated most international tariffs between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
On April 3rd, 1948, this program provided help to Western Europe following World War II, with the aim of reconstructing cities, industries, and infrastructure, as well as fostering commerce between European countries and the United States
What is the Marshall Plan?
This landmark legislation, first proposed by John F. Kennedy, addressed unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, public accommodations, and employment discrimination. It was signed into law on July 2, 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Under this President, multiple federal programs were designed to reduce poverty in the 1960s like the Job Corps, Head Start, Food Stamps (and others). A lot of which are still running today.
(Name of the president and the domestic policy)
What are LBJ's Great Society Programs?
In his 1941 annual message to Congress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed this initiative to provide munitions and supplies to nations at war with aggressor nations, even if they could not afford to pay for them immediately.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This international crisis from 1979 to 1981 involved militants seizing 66 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding 52 of them hostage for over a year, following Iran’s Islamic revolution.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Formed in 1949, a collective defense alliance combined with the US, Canada, Iceland and the Western European Nations, this organization aimed to safeguard the peace and security of member nations.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO?)?
The Civil Rights Movement was often fought through social activism. The SCLC, for example, organized this march in an attempt to acquire more political rights in the States. It had multiple stops and one of the peaceful protest ended in violence and remains known as 'Bloody Sunday'.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
With their spread highly encouraged by the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, these suburban housing developments were designed to provide affordable housing for returning white veterans and their families. They helped shape the suburban lifestyle in the U.S.
What are Levittowns?
These were a group of volunteers and ships that patrolled the coast of Florida during World War II. They specifically kept watch for German Submarines.
What is the mosquito fleet?
This organization’s 1973 oil embargo led to a global energy crisis, causing fuel shortages and a nearly 300% increase in oil prices, profoundly affecting the U.S. economy and lifestyle.
What is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
This man orchestrated the Inchon landing in September 1950, an invasion that was considered a turning point during the Korean War, successfully pusheing the North Korean forces back across the 38th parallel.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
On August 28, 1963, this historical event took place with the main purpose of demanding that Congress pass President Kennedy's Civil Rights Bill. Thousands of people supported and advocated for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
What is the March on Washington?
This author’s 1963 book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ sparked the second wave of feminism in the United States and led to her co-founding the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.). She believed in freeing women from traditional roles in the home, equal pay, reproductive rights, and equality.
Who is Betty Friedan?
What was the codename for the top-secret project during World War II that was led by J. Robert Oppenheimer and resulted in the development of the atomic bomb?
What is the Manhattan Project?