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The UN Security Council ordered Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Iraq formally annexed Kuwait. An allied coalition fought against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. Who was the Iraqi dictator who ordered the invasion of Kuwait in 1990?
Who was Saddam Hussein
Give two responses by the United States to the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11.
Passed the Patriot Act to improve counter terrorism efforts.
Created the Homeland Security
Invaded Afghanistan because they were sheltering Al-Qaeda
What was the impacted of computer technology on society? Must give two reasons
Increased Access to information, Connected Businesses to new Markets, able to access information faster and efficiently.
What Organization passed an embargo on U.S. and caused a price spike on gas
OPEC
What is the American Disabilities Act?
Guarantees people with disabilities equal treatment in all parts of society
Who worked with Congress to create the Environmental Protection Agency?
Richard Nixon
Explain Freedom Rides
People ride interstate buses across the South to challenge state government to enforce the Supreme Court Rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation. The government enforcing desegregation.
What was the impact of the space race between Russia and United States
The development of NASA, the STEM program, achieve superior spaceflight capability, technology
What is the term for stolen documents from the Democratic National Headquarters?
Watergate Scandal
What is citizens power to propose new legislation by a circulating committee who must submit a minimum a certain number of valid signatures to the Town Clerk's Office.
Initiative
Who was Orval Faubus
Governor that challenged desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School. Eisenhower sent in the National Guards.
Naval blockade of Soviet Missle
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Mass protest and demonstrations over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War were fueled by
the media reporting on the difficult time the U.S. military was having in Vietnam
in 1952, the U.S. successfully detonated the H-bomb, the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union exploded a nuclear weapon in 1953. The arms race followed as both countries amassed more nuclear weapons.
What was the name of that race?
Arms Race
Define containment
Containment was a United States foreign policy strategy launched in 1947 to prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence after World War II
What president illegally covered up information during the Watergate Scandal?
Nixons
When the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was passed just six weeks after the terrorist attacks on the United States it initiated what?
Law enforcement agencies were empowered to conduct searches, surveillance telephone and internet communications, and acquire individuals' private records without probable cause.
Iranian Students took US hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Held for almost a year. Carter was unable to get them released. What was this called?
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Difference between what government said and what actually happened. Began during LBJ's presidency. Loss of trust of government.
Credibility Gap
What is the 26 amendment?
Voting age changed from 21 to 18
Who initiated the Affordable Care Act that provides access to health care for Americans regardless of medical condition?
Obama
Limited military action of executive branch
War Power Resolution
Explain the Difference in Martin Luther King and The Black Panthers.
Martin Luther King Jr. fought for equality and civil rights through civil disobedience and peaceful protest; while Black Panthers fought inequality by any means necessary/violence.
Outlawed the literacy test, reduced voter discrimmination.
The voting Rights Act of 1964
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Group of African American students that were integrated into an all-white school.