The D-Day invasion of France took place along the ________ coast.
What is Normandy.
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The centerpiece of President Johnson’s “war on poverty” was the Office of ________.[
What is Economic Opportunity?
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People in Hollywood who were suspected of being subversive were ________ from employment.
What is blacklisted?
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Strong local opposition by southern whites to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka became known as “________ ____________.”
What is Massive Resistance?
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The ________ _______ challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s by refusing to abide by the laws which segregated the seating in buses by race.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
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The ________ _______, a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II, moved at a faster pace than expected.
What is the Manhattan Project?
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The Truman Doctrine was announced to garner support for American aid to two countries, ________ and Turkey.
What is Greece?
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Alger Hiss was in part convicted by Whittaker Chambers’s “________ papers.”
What is Pumpkin?
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This ruling held that prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Engel v. Vitale (1962)?
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The first major post-World War II race riot occurred in the ________ section of Los Angeles.
What is Watts?
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The ________ __________ of 1968 cost the North Vietnamese dearly, even as it further weakened American support for the war in Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
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In 1960, John Kennedy called his domestic reform agenda the “____ ________.”
What is the New Frontier?
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States were given permission to pass “right-to-work” laws by the ________ Act of 1947.
What is Taft-Hartley?
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This ruling held that all felony defendants were entitled to a lawyer, regardless of their ability to pay.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)?
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During the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. made his first appearance on the national scene, and soon founded the _______ ________ _________ ________.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (or SCLC)?
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On July 27, 1953, negotiators at ________ finally signed an agreement ending the hostilities between North and South Korea and established a cease-fire line at roughly the 38th parallel.
What is Panmunjom?
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President Johnson increased popular support for the ________ program by making it available to all elderly Americans.
What is Medicare?
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In the post-World War II era, ________ brought mass-production techniques to the housing industry.
Who is William Levitt?
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This Supreme Court ruling required authorities to inform a criminal suspect of his or her legal rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona (1966)?
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The radical philosophy within the civil rights movement known as “________” favored racial distinctiveness over assimilation.
What is black power?
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Led by Lieutenant William Calley, American soldiers massacred more than 300 South Vietnamese civilians near the village of ________.
What is My Lai?
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In his farewell address to the nation, President Eisenhower warned against the “unwarranted influence” of the “________-_______ _________.”
Who is the Military-Industrial Complex?
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Beginning in 1947, the House ________ Committee instituted a serious investigation of internal subversion.
What is the House "Un-American Activities" Committee or HUAC?
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This Supreme Court ruling held that in order to violate the Smith Act, one must encourage others to take some action, not simply hold or assert beliefs.
What is Yates v. United States (1957)?
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In response to the Brown (1954) decision, _____ _______, Governor of Arkansas, ordered the Arkansas National Guard to stop African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.