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Supreme Court Cases & Random Stuff
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Which President is ultimatley responsible for dropping the first atomic bomb?

Harry Truman

100

Her book, Silent Spring, in 1962 Rachel Carson helped initiate ......

the environmental movement/Green Power Movement

100
President G.W. Bush declared this as a response to 9/11, US would actively fight terrorism throughout the world
What is the war on terror?
100
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
100

The lawyer for the NAACP during the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Thurgood Marshall

200

The president at the beginning of the Great Depression, who utilized laissez faire capitalism, and was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.

Who is Herbert Hoover?

200

This permanent alliance, established in the heart of the Cold War, went against one of the major ideas Washington warned about in his farewell address.

What is NATO?

200

President Reagan's economic policy known as ____________ or supply-side economics, focused on reducing government spending, lowering taxes, and cutting regulations. Opponents often called it "trickle-down economics."

Reaganomics

200
This Supreme Court Case ruled that first trimester abortions were to be allowed based on a women's right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
200

"Integration versus separatism" characterized the fundamental philosophical difference between which two influencial people of the Civil Rights Movement?

MLK Jr & Malcom X

300
Two new Amendments to the Constitution that reflected Social Changes during the 1920's.
What is the 18th & 19th amendments. (18- prohibition (1890), 19- women's suffrage (1920)
300

Correctly place the following Vietnam War Events in chronological order.


Kent State Protests/Shooting

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Vietnamization

Tet Offensive 

Geneva Accords

Geneva Accords

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Tet Offensive

Kent State

Vietnamization

300
Reagan pushed through big tax cuts but also increased spending on defense, especially for this high tech anti-missile defense system that was way ahead of its time
What is What is the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars"
300

The first country in the world to recognize America as an independent nation after signing the Declaration of Independence was _______

Morocco

300

What was significant change occurred with Sandra Day O'Connor's Supreme Court appointment?

First female Supreme Court Justice

400

FDR's New Deal programs were designed to address 3 major needs, known as "the 3 Rs." What are the "3 R's" and provide an example of each.

Relief (CCC, relief checks, unemployment, bread lines)

Recovery (AAA, NRA)

Reform (Social Security Act, FDIC)

400

During the early Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1960s, what were the two major goals of the movement and laws were created to address those goals.

End Segregation = Civil Rights Act of 1964

Protect Voting Rights = Voting Rights Act of 1965(24th Amendment too)

400
an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
What is the silent majority?
400

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of....

Long Words

400

This senator used the Red Scare and threats of exposing communists during the Cold War.

Joseph McCarthy

500
A change in US foreign Policy that allowed Great Britain to travel to the US, pay for war supplies in cash and transport them back to Europe.
What is the Cash and Carry Policy?
500

Overheating caused by human, design, and mechanical errors caused part of this nuclear power plant's uranium core to melt.

What is Three Mile Island

500

The Cold War was a world wide conflict with multiple international proxy wars, influential locations, and important people. However, there is one place that was always one of the core hotspots. Where did many people believe represented the begining and the end of the Cold War?

Berlin

500

The court upheld the constitutionality of detention camps for which group in Korematsu v. U. S. (1941)?

What is Japanese-Americans during World War II.

500

This person's "fireside chats" created psychological reassurance and build public trust during the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt.