Vocab
This is the key difference between "domestic terrorism" and "international terrorism".
What is the difference in nationality of the attackers to their victims?
This is a reason why the U.S. has attempted to develop relationships with the Middle East.
What is access to diplomatic allies or oil?
The United States entered World War II because of this reason.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
These are two sociological concepts that were a key part of analyzing Hurricane Katrina.
What are the bystander effect, altruism, or selfishness?
These are TWO reasons why the U.S. justified dropping the atomic bombs on Japan.
What are protecting American people and guaranteeing Japanese surrender?
This is the definition of "ideology".
What is a set of views and beliefs that one person has?
Name at least TWO social movements and their impact on American Civil Rights.
What are the Black Civil Rights movement, Boston Busing movement, the Chicano movement, the Gay Rights movement, the Women's Rights movement, the Asian American movement, the Vietnam War protests?
This is the reason why the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan.
What is to defeat Al Qaeda/Osama Bin Laden?
This is the definition of someone who is politically "conservative". *Do not use stereotypes
What is someone who believes in less government involvement and more traditional social values?
Name President Lyndon B. Johnson's intent behind his letter to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.
What is the desire for peace and surrendering of Vietnamese troops to the American, capitalist side?
This is the definition of "precedent".
What is to set a judgment for future cases to take inspiration/influence from?
This was the Brown v. Board decision AND the precedent it set for future cases.
What is the desegregation of public schools and separate not meaning equal?
Name THREE events part of the Cold War.
What are the Arms Race, the Space Race, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, the Rosenbergs, the Korean War, etc?
This is the definition of communism.
What is government control of the economy and equal social programs with less individual choice?
Describe the U.S.'s relationship with Israel and why we have this relationship.
What is a positive relationship with Israel in order to have a major democratic ally in an oil-concentrated region of the world (the Middle East).
This is the definition of "McCarthyism".
What is a Senator's anti-communist agenda?
These are two ways that World War II helped the U.S. / considered a "good" war for the U.S.
What are turning the US into a powerhouse country, atomic technology, international relationships through financial support, the rise in capitalist power, etc?
Using the term DOMINO THEORY, this was the reason why the United States went to war in Vietnam.
What is to avoid the domino theory from making Vietnam a Communist country?
These are the 3 key parts of Reaganomics.
What are: (1) Trickle down economics (2) Less government involvement (3) Saving federal money
This is the doctrine President Bush set for American foreign policy post-9/11.
What is preemptive attacking and ensuring the spread of American democracy and freedom to the world (particularly the Middle East)?
This is the definition of a "paradigm shift" in relation to social movements.
What is the shift of societal beliefs/status quo surrounding an ideology?
This is how U.S. interventionism led to the Iranian Revolution.
This was how the American public and American military INITIALLY reacted to President Bush's War on Terror in 2001.
What were positive rallies of support to prevent terrorism and the enlistment of many military soldiers?
This is how a "free market economy" works and serves as the key foundation of capitalism.
What is supply and demand controlling the market with little government restrictions?
This is one reason why the modern-day war in Iran has begun and one major issue the U.S. has started since then.
What is "protecting Iranians", regime change, and destruction of the Iranian Ayatollah system? What is black oil skies of Iran, death of 120+ schoolgirls, or assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini?