Vietnam Era
North Vietnam Invaded this country
South Vietnam
African Americans refused to ride city buses.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A system where the government controls businesses and property.
Communism
Reaganomics founder
Ronald Reagan
The use of violence to create fear and achieve political goals.
Terrorism
A government process of mandatory enlistment in a country's armed forces
A draft
MLK and Malcom X
The belief that if one country became communist, nearby countries would become communist too.
Domino Theory
Someone who generally favors limited government and traditional values.
CONSERVATIVE
Terrorists hijacked airplanes and attacked:
World Trade Center
9/11
Citizens organizing to oppose government policies
Protest Movement
Nine African American students integrated a previously all-white school.
Little Rock Nine
A 1962 confrontation when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ronald Reagan's Beliefs
lower taxes
smaller government
strong military
First "Modern" Smartphone presented in 2007
iPhone
Many Americans protested the Vietnam War
Anti War Movement
Ended legal segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act
The Soviet Union broke apart into independent countries.
Collapse of the Soviet Union
George Bush handle this natural disaster very poorly in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
The largest source of immigration in the 2000s
Latinos
Fall of Saigon
North Vietnam captured South Vietnam.
Birth Place of the Civil Rights Movement
Greensboro, North Carolina
Little Rock, Arkansas
Montgomery, Alabama
Topeka, Kansas
East and West Berlin were reunited.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Free-market philosophy that advocates for minimal to no government intervention in business and economic affairs
Laissez-faire
The leader of Al Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden