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US project to create nuclear weapons
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
This doctrine provided military and economic support for Turkey and Greece to fight communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Mid to late 20th century competition between the US and USSR for space supremacy
What is The Space Race?
100
The Law that women and men had to be equal in school sports
What is Title IX
100
A policy which eases tension between nations
What is Detaunt?
200
Ship of jewish refuges that were rejected from landing in Cuba and the US, and sent back to Europe
What is the SS Saint Louis?
200
Known as the European recovery plan, it was an american program to aid Europe, and help build European economies after WWII.
What is the Marshal Plan?
200
The idea that if one nation falls to communism, all of the surrounding nations will too.
What is the Domino Theory?
200
A form of protest where the protestors sit in a restaurant and take up space
What is a Sit In?
200
The scandal that cause Nixon to resign from office in disgrace.
What is the Watergate scandal?
300
Blacks push for victory against racism abroad and at home.
What is the Double V campaign?
300
North Atlantic Treaty organization
What is NATO?
300
A 13 day confrontation between the USSR and cuba on one side, and the US on the other
What is the Cuban missile crisis?
300
A policy that factors race, color, gender, sexual orientation, or nation origin to benefit an under represented group
What is Affirmative Action?
300
a Puzzling economic dilemma faced by president Nixon, where prices were rising, but the economy stayed stagnant.
What is stagflation?
400
US strategy in the Pacific.
What is Island Hopping?
400
The original cookie cutter neighborhood
What is Levittown?
400
A term frequently used to describe public skepticism about London B Johnson's administration's statements and policies about the Vietnam War
What is the Credibility Gap?
400
A court case where a white boy argued he wasn't accepted because he was white
What is UC Regents Vs. Bakke?
400
A diplomatic crisis between Iraq and the United States where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
What is Iran Hostage Crisis?
500
Government program that brought laborers up from mexico to hep with the farm crisis
What is the Bracero Program?
500
The practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome
What is Brinkmanship?
500
Leaked documents revealing Johnson's administration quietly questioning the war, but publicly defending it
What is The Pentagon Papers?
500
An american farm worker who co founded the nation farm workers association
Who is Ceaser Chaves?
500
A historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
What is the Camp David Accord?