WWII
What caused the US to enter WWII?
Pearl Harbor
What is Sputnik?
The Soviet Union's first satellite success
Who was Malcolm X?
What is stagflation?
High unemployment and high inflation
What is Reaganomics?
Trickle Down Theory
What was the Bracero Program?
The encouraged movement of Mexicans to the US to work in agriculture to improve war production.
Was the Bay of Pigs invasion a success or a failure?
Failure
How did the GI Bill impact American culture?
Creation of car culture, suburbs, hotels, fast food (conformity)
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Carter housed the Shah, one thing led to another, US Americans are held hostage in Iran for 444 days.
What scandal plagued Clinton's presidency?
Monica Lewinksy
What was the main argument of the Quarantine Speech given by FDR?
To cut off US supplies to Japan in order to stop their imperial efforts in the Pacific (later resulting in Pearl Harbor)
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
What court case did Brown v. Board overturn?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Watergate?
Nixon's scandal where someone broke into the DNC furthering the public's distrust in the US Gov't
What is NAFTA?
Open trade agreements between Canada, Mexico, and the US
What is island-hopping?
Military strategy employed by the US to access mainland Japan
What happened directly after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
US effectively entered the Vietnam War
What did the the 24th amendment outlaw?
Poll taxes
What are the Camp David Accords?
Carter's success of a Peace Treaty b/w the Middle East
Who made big gains in the 90s and 2000s in the government?
Minorities and women
What did the Fred Korematsu vs. US court case decide?
Japanese internment camps were constitutional
Why was the interstate highway created by Eisenhower?
So citizens and military vehicles could exit a nuclear attack quickly
What did the AIM occupy?
Alcatraz
What is the book that sparked the environmentalist movement?
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
How did tech change from the 1970s to the 2000s?
Massively improved fundamentally changing the US