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The Great Society
The Cold War Ends
The Civil Rights Movement
New Challenges
100
What is another name for using violence and fear to gain political goals?
Terrorism
100
With what Southeast Asian country was the U.S. involved in a major war with?
North Vietnam or Vietnam
100
During the Gulf War, the U.S. led a coalition or countries against what country?
Iraq
100
By refusing to move to the back of the bus, this woman helped to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
100
What is the name of the material that carries genetic information?
DNA
200
The information that provides living things with their characteristics is called what?
Gene
200
What was the name for people who were for and against the war in the 1960s?
Hawks and doves
200
What President is usually credited with strengthening the U.S. enough that it led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Ronald Reagan
200
The most well known leader of the Civil Rights Movement was called.
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
What is the name of the permanen science lab that is orbiting earth?
International Space Station
300
People who take action for political goals are called what?
Activists
300
What was the name of the government program that provided healthcare to the elderly?
Medicare
300
What was the name of the scandal that led to Nixon resigning from office?
Watergate
300
Thurgood Marshall argued this very important case in front of the Supreme Court for the NAACP.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
300
The United States were attacked on what date in 2001?
9-11 or September 11
400
A worker who travels from place to place picking different crops was called what?
Migrant farm worker
400
Who was President when many of the Great Society programs were put into place?
Lyndon Johnson
400
What was the name of amendment that attempted to guarantee the same rights to women that are guaranteed to men.
Equal Rights Amendment
400
This group defied the restrictions of segregation on public buses and in public stations.
Freedom Riders
400
What is the name of the terrorist organization that was headed by Osama Bin Laden?
Al Queda
500
This piece of legislation protected the rights of those who had disabilities?
American with Disability Act
500
What President was assassinated during the 1960s?
Kennedy
500
What was the name of the first female justice on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
500
What year did the Civil Rights Act that reaffirmed the rights of all to vote regardless of race?
1964
500
Who was the first person to set foot on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong