Cold War
Abbreviation for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
What is NASA?
LBJ’s domestic policy to end poverty & racial injustice.
What is the Great Society?
A highly flammable gel used in bombs during the Vietnam War.
What is Napalm?
Pro-democracy protests in China when students were massacred by Chinese forces.
What is the Tiananmen Square incident?
The two main candidates in the 2000 presidential election?
Who is George W. Bush and Al Gore?
Cuban exiles mainly fled to what US state?
What is Florida?
This amendment prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
The largest helicopter evacuation in history.
What is Operation Frequent Wind?
A coalition military campaign to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
Nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons capable of causing mass casualties.
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?
A symbolic divide between Western and Eastern Europe.
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
Known for assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
An incident when National Guard troops fired on student anti-war protesters, killing four.
What was the Kent State incident?
A term for the combination of high inflation and high unemployment.
What is stagflation?
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton on charges of?
What is perjury and obstruction of justice?
A “witch-hunt” or “red scare” against Communists in America.
What is McCarthyism?
This was the day and location that Kennedy was assassinated on.
What is November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas?
The idea that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is domino theory?
Policies and practices designed to increase representation of underrepresented groups.
What is affirmative action?
A Cuban prison to hold terrorist suspects.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
What countries was Germany divided by after WWII?
What is the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France?
This court case ruled segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The mass killing of Vietnamese civilians in a village by U.S. troops.
What was the My Lai Massacre?
The process of removing or reducing government regulations.
What is deregulation?
NAFTA stands for:
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?