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As surgeon general in the 1980s, he became the spokesman for the HIV/Aids epidemic.
Who is C. Everett Koop?
The US established itself as a world power and gained an empire as a result of this event.
What is the Spanish American War of 1898?
When Russia launched this in 1957, many feared they would use it to drop nuclear bombs on America.
What is Sputnik?
He had a dream in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Mom + Dad + 2 kiddies =
What is a nuclear family?
She became the eyes of ears of Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The US and her allies helped to turn the tide of the World War II with this 1944 invasion of Nazis controlled Northern France.
What is D-Day?
After Rosa Parks was arrested, this one year peaceful protest followed. It led to the desegregation of passenger vehicles in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
"The birds were to be heard no more...a silent spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
Zelda Fitzgerald was labeled the first one of these independent women of the Roaring Twenties.
What is a flapper?
"This is how the other half lives and dies in the state of New York."
Who is Jacob Riis?
This government group was set up in the early 1970s as a result of several factors, from Rachel Carson's book to the Cuyahoga River catching fire.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
This 1968 surprise attack by the Vietcong on numerous cities in South Vietnam proved that America's war in Vietnam was far from over.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Who is Betty Friedan?
This imaginary line separated the democracies of western Europe from the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from 1945-1989.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Along with Dolores Huerta, he established a labor union to protect the rights of Hispanics working within the grape growing industry.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
In the summer of 1932, this group traveled to Washington DC in the hope of receiving money from Congress. They were both denied and attacked.
What is the Bonus Army?
Al-Qaeda's attack on America in 2001 ultimately led to two wars in the Middle East, one in Iraq and one in ________.
What is Afghanistan?
"We therefore declare that all further recounts must end and that the results as currently stated must be ratified."
What is the Supreme Court decision connected to te Election of 2000?
In 1920, presidential candidate Warren Harding pledged that America was done with the Progressive Movement and foreign wars, a pledge which is summed up by this phrase.
What is a return to normalcy?
This senator believed that if America joined the League of Nations, it would lose it's power to make its own decisions.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
In 1917, the US began this process of finding young men to serve in the military during a moment of crisis.
What is the Selective Service?
This was the primary cause of America's entry into the First World War.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
What is the War Powers Act?
Medicare and social security are both examples of these.
What are entitlement programs?