Cold War & Civil Rights
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Economic problem of high inflation combined with high unemployment in the 1970s.
What is stagflation?
These attacks in 2001 led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
What are the September 11 attacks?
Late 19th-century movement that pushed for the prohibition of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Policy to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
The 1964 law that outlawed segregation in public places and employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1980s policy focused on tax cuts, deregulation, and supply-side economics.
What is Reaganomics?
Law prohibiting denial of health insurance for pre-existing conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Movement advocating for voting rights for women, culminating in the 19th Amendment.
What is Women’s Suffrage?
U.S. strategy to provide military and economic aid to countries resisting communism after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Cold War confrontation over Soviet nuclear missiles in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The scandal in the 1970s that forced President Nixon to resign.
What is Watergate?
The financial crisis of 2008 was caused mainly by the collapse of this market.
What is the housing market?
Early labor movement that fought for better working conditions and an 8-hour workday.
What is the Knights of Labor / Labor Movement?
The first major U.S. conflict of the 20th century involving trench warfare in Europe.
What is World War I?
This doctrine aimed to contain the spread of communism worldwide.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
NAFTA, signed in the 1990s, stands for this.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2003 over alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction.
What is Iraq?
1960s youth movement that rejected mainstream norms and protested the Vietnam War.
What is the counterculture movement?
Allied strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacific during WWII.
What is island hopping?
Approximately 2.7 million Americans served in this war in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
The U.S. stock market crash of 1987 is often called this.
What is Black Monday?
The 2016 election was notable because the winner of the Electoral College lost this.
What is the popular vote?
Activists like Cesar Chavez worked to improve conditions for this group in the mid-20th century.
Who are farm workers / migrant laborers?
The surprise German attack in 1941 that brought the U.S. closer to WWII involvement.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?