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The Affluent Society
100
He said, "In my opinion the State Department...is thoroughly infested with Communists."
Who is Sen. Joseph McCarthy?
100
A failed attempt to retake their homeland using the CIA as point people.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
100
The Southern Declaration on Integration called for a repeal of this controversial Supreme Court ruling.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

100

He said, "We choose to go to the moon...and do other things, not because they are easy , but because they are hard..."

Who is JFK?

100
It was the common term for tract homes built uniformly throughout the suburbs.
What is Levittown?
200
The Soviet arch of invention might look like jet airliner to Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to Hydrogen Bomb in the case of the launching of this next product.
What is Sputnik?
200
One failed and one succeeded in reducing ballistic usage and numbers.
What is SALT?
200

This document from the SDS, attacked democrats for doing too little for racial injustice.

What is the Port Huron Statement?

200

His presidency was marred by oil embargoes, hostage crises, and stagflation.

Who is Jimmy Carter?

200

The 1940s opportunity that opened the door for women to have jobs outside of their traditional roles.

What is WWII labor?

300
George Kennan's "Long Telegram" advocated for it in the realm of foreign policy.
What is Containment?
300
The group that rode the wave of prominence for evangelical Christian organizations in politics.
Who are the "Moral Majority"?
300
To whom Stokely Carmichael issued this quote, "We cannot be expected any longer to march and have our heads broken in..."
Who are advocates of non-violent resistance?
300

Activities like "Freedom Forums", increased John Birch Society rolls, school board races signaled this event.

What is the election of Ronald Reagan?

300
It allowed for people to commute from the suburbs to town for work or cross-country road trips.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
400
This policy refers to, "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
It ended when the U.S. removed its missiles from Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400

The Southern case where the author was correct in saying, "Ike restored order and supremacy by force".

What is the Little Rock 9?

400

He was the first American President to have nuclear arms and not use them.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

400

The movement of caucasian families to the suburbs as a result of ethnic pressures throughout the 1950s.

What is the "White Flight"?

500

It is likely that at least one member of this couple was traitorous.

Who are the Rosenbergs?

500
Nixon's belief in easing the tensions between Cold War enemies.
What is detente?
500

The 1963 text that primarily changed the perspectives on women away from the standard housewife.

What is Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique?

500

He was able to successfully negotiate a freeze on US to USSR ballistic missiles.

Who is Richard Nixon?

500

He was responsible for broad religious revivalism and the insertion of phrases like "In God We Trust" to U.S. currency.

Who is the Rev. Billy Graham?