Cold War
A conflict where major powers avoid direct military confrontation with each other by instead supporting smaller nations.
What are Proxy Wars?
This supreme court case ended school segregation and granted equality to African American children.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A period of high prices in gasoline.
What is the Oil Crisis?
This was considered a widespread disease among the LGBTQ+ population in the 80s.
What is AIDS?
Americans saw a rise in innovations in digital technology due to this new phenomenon.
What is the Internet?
This was a tense 13-day standoff between the US and the USSR, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is economic growth?
A rise in the prices of goods and services.
What is inflation?
African Americans were wrongfully imprisoned at higher rates than White Americans for possessing this illegal drug.
What is crack-cocaine?
The rise in households with computers and internet subscriptions led to the emergence of what?
What are e-commerce companies?
Television news coverage of the Vietnam War led the public to question government officials about the war effort and protest against it.
What is the Counter-Revolution?
This was a strategy that Martin Luther King endorsed during the Civil Rights Movement.
What are peaceful protests?
The US experienced a major economic shift, with the industrial Midwest suffered a decline due to automation, energy crises, and foreign competition.
What is the Rust Belt?
This group of citizens and government officials advocated for cutting regulations on businesses and tax cuts.
What is the New Right Movement?
American companies built manufacturing plants in other countries to save money on labor costs by hiring foreign workers.
What is offshoring?
This period in the U.S. and in the Soviet Union led to an increased federal effort to improve science and technology education.
What is the Space Race?
This was created by Congress in 1964 to help improve the health of low-income Americans.
What is the Food Stamp Act?
This law ended discrimination against women in the workplace.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
What are conservatives?
The United States signed this agreement in order to reduce barriers to commerce with neighboring countries.
What is NAFTA?
What is a policy of containment?
A period of hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communists in the U.S.
What is the Red Scare?
This event resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
A US government-led initiative launched by President Nixon to reduce illegal drug trade and use through punitive policies, mandatory sentencing, and increased enforcement.
What is the War on Drugs?
American businesses expanded their markets to other countries during this period.
What is Globalization?