Show:
The Cold and Korean War
The 50s Society
The Vietnam War
The Civil Rights Movement
The Turbulent 60's
and The Watergate Scandal
The Last 40 Years
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This was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
What is the Cold War?
100
These were the Presidents during this time.
Who are Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower?
100
When was Vietnam divided into north and south Vietnam?
When is 1954?
100
Nixon had people listen in on reporters.
What is Wire Tapping?
100
A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages.
What is The Iran Hostage Crisis?
200
This was a significant part of where the Cold War received it's name.
What is the absence of war (or fighting)
200
This was made to help people get from one place to another faster in their cars.
What is the Interstate?
200
These people made their stand against segregation on buses which traveled through the southern states.
Who are the Freedom Riders
200
Johnson’s domestic policy
What is the Great Society?
200
The first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War presented itself in August 1990.
What is Desert Storm?
300
This is the reasons the Korean War resulted in angry Americans.
What is no territory gained or lost? What is the death of approximately 55,000 American soldiers? (History Channel)
300
What was the American policy against the Communist?
What is Containment?
300
This 1896 court case was found to be unconstitutional under the 14th amendment and was cited many times during the Civil Rights Movement
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
A CIA backed scheme to topple Fidel Castro from power by invading Cuba with anti - Communist exiles
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300
"This will not stand."
What was President Bush's response to the dictator of Iraq ordering his army across the border into tiny Kuwait. Which neighbored a major export for oil.
400
Which leader wanted to reunify Korea under communist control?
Who is Kim Il Sung?
400
is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
400
What did Vietnam name itself after it was divided?
What is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam?
400
This act outlawed literacy test and sent federal voter registrars into several southern states
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
This is any political philosophy that favors tradition in the face of external forces for change, and is critical of proposals for radical social change.
What is Conservatism?
500
He was the American General who led forces in Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur?
500
This was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
This term refers to the hiring and enrollment of those who have been discriminated in the past
What is Affirmative Action?
500
This act banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public, including theaters, hospitals, and restaurants
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
A popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. President (1981–1989), which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
What is Reaganomics?