Major public works project that was supported by President Eisenhower
What is the interstate highway system?
100
Woodstock and Haight Ashbury are both examples of what movement
What is the counterculture movement?
100
Major U.S. population trend in the 1970s and 1980s
What is moving to the Sunbelt?
100
President who ordered federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 to protect black student integrating Little Rock's Central High School
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
U.S.'s main foreign policy during the Cold War
What is containment?
200
Senator who gained fame by claiming that communists were infiltrating the ranks of the State Department and the Army
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
Name Richard Nixon gave to his supporters during his presidential campaign
What is the Silent Majority?
200
Two major issues that plagued all three presidents during the 1970s
What is a poor economy and the energy crisis/environmental issues?
200
First African American Supreme Court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
Congressional resolution that allowed Johnson and Nixon to wage war in Vietnam without a declaration of war from Congress
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
300
Reason families built bomb shelters
What is the threat of nuclear war?
300
Candidate who was seen as "winning" the first presidential debate on television; went on to win the election
Who is John F. Kennedy?
300
Reason the Equal Rights Amendment failed to be added to the Constitution
What is it was not ratified by enough states (or Phylis Schafly led a campaign against it)?
300
Main goal of SCLC activity in the South in the 1960s
What is voter registration?
300
Probably the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war during the Cold War; fortunately the controversy was successfully resolved and armed conflict was avoided
Who is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
Congressional committee that investigated accusations of communism in Hollywood; led to a number of actors and producers being blacklisted
What is the House of Unamerican Activities Committee?
400
Name for Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic program that created programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Head Start
What is the Greaty Society?
400
Proved to be the most damaging to President Nixon during the Senate Watergate hearings
What is the tape recordings of Oval Office conversations?
400
Philosophy used by leaders like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez to achieve social change
What is non-violent resistance?
400
Foreign policy crisis that marred the end of Carter's presidency and marks the beginning of our hostile relations with the Middle Eastern nation involved
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
500
Led to Congress passing the National Defense Education Act increasing the emphasis on math and science education in schools
What is the Soviet's successful launch of Sputnik?
500
Reason that the Vietnam War hurt the implementation of Johnson's Great Society progams and goals
What is it diverted money away from domestic issues?
500
Supreme Court case that resulted from the Watergate Scandal in which the court struck down the president's claims of executive privilege and order the tapes be turned over to Congress
What is U.S. v. Nixon?
500
Supreme Court decision that struck down de jure segregation in public education
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
Common impact of the Tet Offensive, My Lai massacre, and Nixon's invasion of Cambodia
What is increased support for the anti-war movement (or sparked anti-war protests)?