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berlin wall
100
26th president of the united states 1901-09.
Teddy Rossevelt
100
american activist in the civil rights movement known for the Montgomery bus boycott
rosa parks
100
highway over passes must be 17 feet tall so the can fit _____ under them
missles
100
competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability
space race
200
bus boycott
200
40th president of the united states 1981-1989
Ronald Reagan
200
reporters for the Washington post who helped investigate Watergate.
woodward & brunstein
200
this gas that causes severe irritation to the eyes, chiefly used in riot control to force crowds to disperse.
tear gas
200
Niagara Falls, New York. The neighborhood is known infamously as the location of a 70-acre landfill which became the cause of a massive environmental pollution disaster harming the health of hundreds of residents
love canal
300
21,000 tons of toxic industrial waste that had been buried underground
love cannal
300
37th president of the united states 1969- 1974
Nixson
300
the leader of the civil rights movement in 1955 until he got assassinated.
martin luther kind jr
300
a fully automatic weapon used in war
machine guns
300
november 9th 1989. East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders.
berlin wall comes down
400
agent orange
400
33 president of the united states 1945- 1953
Harry s. Truman
400
The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion
roe v wade
400
was first created, originally to help farmer's control their cattle. However, it was used to slow down the attacking of the opposite army in World War
barbed wire
400
A June 1972 break-in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters led to an investigation that revealed multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration.
watergate scandle
500
what event started after the ussr launched sputnik
space race
500
39th president of the united states 1977-1981
jimmy carter
500
first African American to play in Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson
500
military herbicides to defoliate forests and mangroves in what was then South Vietnam to deny cover to enemy troops and make bombing targets more visible.
agent orange
500
also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
missile crisis