Cold War
The policy aiming to prevent the spread of Communism worldwide
What is Containment
Ronald Reagan's 'supply-side' economic policies that combated stagflation. Includes deregulation and tax cuts.
Reaganomics
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment
The treaty that ended WW1
What is the Treaty of Versailles
The group responsible for the 9/11 attacks
What is Al-Qaeda
The program in 1947 aiming to provide economic aid to rebuild and help Western Europe after WW2
What is The Marshall Plan
The policy by President Truman that provided aid to countries resisting communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
The journalists and political cartoon creators who exposed corruption in the government in the 1900s were know as this
The event that led to the US entering WW2
The 1973 conflict that led to OPEC putting an embargo against the US
What is the Yom Kippur War
Proxy war in 1950 between China/Soviet Union and the US/UN
What is The Korean War
The president who created the 'Great Society' which aimed to end poverty and racial indjustice. Included the War on Poverty
The book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the poor conditions of the meatpacking industry
What is 'The Jungle'
The secret project by the US that developed the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project
The president that signed the Camp David accords after a war between Egypt and Israel
What is President Carter
1962 event in Cuba that brought the USSR and the US to the brink of nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
The president that was involved in the Watergate Scandal
What is President Nixon
The act in 1890 that regulated monopolies and promoted competition by outlawing trusts
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
The plan by the US to help supply the Allies with guns and resources without directly entering WW2.
The doctrine that justified US intervention in the Middle East after 9/11
What is the Bush doctrine
The policies under Mikhail Gorbachev that helped ease Cold War tensions and benefit the failing country. Included reforms such as a policy of openness and restructuring the economy.
Glasnost and Perestroika
The president that created the New Deal program
What is President Roosevelt
The amendment that established the federal income tax
What is the 16th amendment
Executive Order 9066
1979 event where people took Americans as hostage from the US embassy in Iran