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Dictator who led Iraq in an invasion of Kuwait.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
100
Achieved in the Roe vs. Wade case.
What is right to an abortion?
100
Carter agreed to concede this piece of land to Central America by the year 2000.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
The Soviet Union's late 1980s plan for improved "openness" with how their government was run.
What is Glasnost?
100
Economic trouble in the 70's.
What is stagflation?
200
President that was former actor.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
Supreme Court chief justice who took Earl Warren's place.
Who is Warren Burger?
200
Act which replaced the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What is the War Powers Act?
200
The US sold weapons to Iran to get money to fund Nicaraguan death squads
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
200
The term given to Nixon’s appeasement of Vietnam war protesters.
What is Vietnamization?
300
Many doves were part of this infamous classification during the Vietnam War.
Who are hippies?
300
Conservatives made this remark about supreme court justice Earl Warren after his leftist legislative rulings.
What is “Impeach Earl Warren”?
300
Nixon’s homefront policy to end “affirmative action” (Named after a large city in the northeast).
What is the Philadelphia plan?
300
Negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel.
What are the Camp David Accords?
300
Ronald Reagan's plan to defend against Soviet Missiles, often referred to as "Star Wars."
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
400
Negotiated the armistice in the Vietnam War for the Americans.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
400
Milliken v. Bradley encouraged the “white flight” movement, by segregating these public institutions
What are school district lines; Prohibited students from crossing across school district lines?
400
Piece of legislation that prohibited gender discrimination in schools.
What is Title IX of the Education Amendments?
400
Failed Peace talk with Russia signalling Cold War heating up again.
What is SALT II?
400
Rebel Group that took power in Poland.
What is Solidarity?
500
The first African-American Supreme Court justice/
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
Allan Bakke successfully appealed to the Supreme Court that he was denied admission to UC Davis for this reason
What is reverse discrimination?
500
Phyllis Schlafly actively protested against this bill.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
500
US military operation to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait (led by “Stormin’ Normin).
What is Operation Desert Storm?
500
Affirmative action is considered to be a part of this.
What is reverse discrimination?