Commies
He claimed to know 205 commies working in the State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
Interruption of the fertility cycle of birds led to this muckraking book of 1962.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
This SCOTUS case assures citizens that they have a right to know their rights.
Miranda v. AZ
The Berlin Airlift was caused by this provocative act by the Soviet Union.
Blockade of Berlin
This 1944 battle in Europe was the beginning of the end for the Nazis.
D-Day
When Ronald Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire" he was the head of the Soviet government.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman on the Supreme Court, nominated by this president.
Ronald Reagan
This SCOTUS case guarantees that citizens have a right to representation even if they cannot afford it.
Gideon v. Wainwright
A road trip in the 1920s arguably led to this landmark public engineering event in 1956.
The Federal Highway Act
This communist country's downfall was the only violent one in the 1980s.
Romania
In 1954 the U.S. supported France instead of him in order to slow the spread of communism in Asia.
Ho Chi Minh
Her 1979 election was one of the factors that eventually brought down the USSR.
Margaret Thatcher
This SCOTUS case was the most significant victory of "second wave" feminism.
Roe v. Wade
The War Powers Act of 1973 would probably never have been passed had it not been for this act of Congress in 1964.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Ho Chi Minh defeated the French at this 1954 battle.
Dien Bien Phu
The Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement immediately preceded invasion of this country.
Poland, 1939
This was the primary objective of NOW in 1972.
Passage of the ERA
This legislation limiting presidential power would likely be found unconstitutional if it ever reached the Supreme Court, but no chief executive yet has been willing to bring it to the Supreme Court.
The War Powers Act, 1973
The Americans with Disabilities Act might never have been enacted had it not been for this 1968 event.
The first Special Olympics
When Saigon finally fell in 1975, he was president of the U.S.
Gerald Ford
John Foster Dulles proposed this as a way to persuade the USSR not to intimidate its neighbors.
Massive Retaliation (i.e. use of nukes)
Women were the primary beneficiaries of this act, passed in the Kennedy administration that guaranteed the same compensation for equal work.
Equal Pay Act
This SCOTUS case enraged the South, and was later buttressed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Brown v. Board, 1954
Martin Luther King emerged into the public spotlight largely because of this woman.
Rosa Parks
Jimmy Carter's presidency was fatally weakened by this 1979 event.
Iran Hostage Crisis