During or After Cold War?
This led to that
Evolving Political Parties
Economic Development & the American Identity
Movements for Civil Rights
100
This policy which gave aid to Greece and Turkey would allow these European countries to resist communist influence and stop its spread in Europe.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Joining this military alliance shifted US foreign policy and provided collective security during the Cold War.
What is NATO?
100
The Warren Court often reached controversial- "activist" decisions that dramatically expanded these, in the 1950s & 60s.
What are civil rights/liberties -due process?
100
During the 1980s this economic policy supported deregulation and tax cuts for American businesses with the belief wealth will "trickle down".
What is Reaganomics (supply-side)?
100
This ruling overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson and gave rise to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
What is Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education(Topeka)?
200
Soviet's Sputnik led to this Cold War Conflict; the won it by landing on the moon in 1969 .
What is the Space Race?
200
This was the reason for US and UN intervention in Korea between 1950-53.
What is containment?
200
In the 1960's, this political party shifted more "right"- conservative - in response to the counterculture and Great Society programs.
What is the Republican Party?
200
The Persian Gulf War in which Iraq invaded Kuwait led to policy debates over this natural resource.
What is oil?
200
Arguments by conservative women like Phyllis Schlafly prevented this legislation from becoming a reality.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
300
A foreign event following World War II, which led to increased support for McCarthyism and the 2nd Red Scare.
What Soviet A-Bomb, Fall of China, or Korean War?
300
Kennedy's naval blockade during this Cold War event, increased fears of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and led to a re-evaluation of the policy of brinksmanship.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
The Supreme Court decision in Gore v. Bush would settle this major dispute and lead to growing partisanship still seen today.
What is the Election results of 2000?
300
This was a major criticism of NAFTA and growing trend due to technology and lower labor costs overseas.
What is job outsourcing ?
300
African American and later Civil Rights Movements was an attempt to live up to this founding principle of the Declaration of Independence.
What is equality or all "men" are created equal?
400
Deregulation and risky banking practices led this president to use FDR style Keynesian Economic policy to address the Great Recession.
Obama?
400
Which presidents Domino Theory quote was born from witnessing growing communist aggression Southeast Asia?
Who is Eisenhower?
400
Democratic programs like The New Deal and the Great Society have this effect on the federal government.
What is they both increased (defecit) spending and/or new social welfare programs?
400
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, creation of the Department of Homeland Security and this law which limited civil liberties were all effects of terrorist attacks on September 11th .
What is the PATRIOT ACT?
400
This major legislation outlawed literacy tests, allowed for the 15th amendment to be carried out with support from the national government.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
The Federal Highway/Interstate system was created for national defense but instead had a greater impact on this movement/process .
What is suburbanization and/or white flight?
500
Following "unchecked" military escalation in Vietnam, the War Powers Act was designed to reduce the military power of the president under this previous resolution (law).
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
Nixon attracted the conservative "silent majority" (southerners and suburbanites) by implementing this policy action in response to Johnson's Great Society.
What is New Federalism?
500
In Reagan's "Evil Empire Speech" he rejects the idea of detente in favor of this new policy which focused on a new arms race with the USSR.
What is "Peace Through Strength"?
500
This legislation, supported by MLK's "March on Washington", will end the segregation public places and discrimination in employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?