The Cold War
Instead of retreating from West Berlin, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sector of Berlin from the air.
What is the Berlin Air lift?
Believed African Americans should be able to protect their civil rights by any means necessary and were against integration.
What is the Black Power Movement, Nation of Islam, Black Panther Party, or Malcolm X?
A dangerous chemical used to kill plants.
What is Agent Orange?
A break in to a hotel that exploded into a massive political scandal against President Nixon.
What is Watergate?
An event that marked an official end to the Cold War in November 9th 1989.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
Capitalist countries formed an alliance called NATO while Communist countries formed their alliance with this.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The attorney for the NAACP who became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
A supply route through Cambodia and Laos used by the North Vietnamese.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
13 days of meetings where Egypt and Israel reached a peace agreement with the help of Jimmy Carter.
What is the Camp David Accords?
On December 31 1999 people all over the world were terrified of the Internet crashing and all electronics failing.
What is Y2K?
A failed U.S. invasion of Cuba that led the USSR to justify the placement of their missiles in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The small of group of outstanding black students selected to integrate Central High School in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
The fear that if one country became communist nearby countries would also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
The President who pardoned Nixon.
Who is Gerald Ford?
A huge hurricane the devastated coastal cities along the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 especially New Orleans.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The line of latitude were the DMZ sits and divides North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
The man who killed JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
Gave President Lyndon B. Johnson freedom to send as many troops as he felt was necessary to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Ronald Reagan's plan for a missile defense system.
What is Star Wars?
Shortly after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City a third plane crashed into this building in Washington D.C.
What is the Pentagon?
The 1950s senator that claimed to know of Communists who were aiding the Soviet Union from inside the U.S. State Department.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
A 14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi and his funeral sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmet Till?
Saigon was renamed this after South Vietnam fell.
What is Ho Chi Minh City?
The last leader of the Soviet Union who began a process of political openness and economic reforms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
A u.S. led multinational coalition against Iraq in response to Saddam's refusal to withdraw from Kuwait.
What is Operation Desert Storm?