Truman & Eisenhower
The launch of this Russian satellite pushed to U.S. to invest more into math & science education, leading to the Space Race.
What is Sputnik I?
The goal of this organization was to increase women's access to economic opportunities and political rights.
What is the National Organization of Women or NOW?
This technological device impacted the American economy by increasing productivity and making information more accessible.
What is the Computer?
In this famous Civil Rights Movement document, Dr. Martin Luther King discussed the importance of protest using non-violent methods.
What is Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
As a response to this ruling, Southern states closed schools rather than complying with the Supreme Courts decision.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Public opinion of national events like, the Kennedy/Nixon debate, the Vietnam War, and the moon landing, were widely shaped by this visual technological advancement.
What is the Television, or TV?
Like the Tet Offensive, this Richard Nixon scandal that led to his resignation, increased citizens distrust in the government.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
The impeachment of this president was part of a larger political strategy from his political rivals to get him removed from office.
Who is Bill Clinton?
This organization led by Cesar Chavez advocated for better wages and working conditions for migrant farm workers.
What are the United Farm Workers of America?
This act lead to an increase in the number of suburbs and made domestic military travel more efficient.
What is the National Interstate & Defense Highways Act?
In response to a Vietnamese attack, LBJ asked Congress to pass this law which gave the President more power to wage war. It ultimately intensified American involvement in the Vietnam conflict.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This legislation limited the power of the President to take military action without the approval of Congress. It was passed in response to the negative impacts of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
What is the War Powers Act?
This economic philosophy positively impacted the U.S. by decreasing government spending on domestic programs, but negatively impact the country because it increased deficit spending which added to the national debt.
What is Reaganomics?
Who is John F. Kennedy, or JFK?
This politician and others falsely accused people in the U.S. of being communist with little evidence causing a wave of fear in the country known as the 2nd Red Scare.
Who is Sen. Joseph McCarthy?
This botched military operation during the Vietnam War served as evidence that the U.S. was not as successful in Vietnam as the government had been saying.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This peace agreement between President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel was brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter and aimed to end long standing conflict and warfare in the Middle East.
What is the Camp David Accords?
When George W. Bush was elected president in 2000, terrorist attacks occurred on September 11, 2001. This led to him to launch this war effort.
What is the War on Terrorism?
The rise of television had a positive impact on the Civil Rights Movement because it led to an increase in this emotion as people saw violence being used against peaceful civil rights protesters.
What is Sympathy?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Two Answers: Both of these were policies that the U.S. used to address communism. One of them involved sending the U.S. military to independent countries to halt the spread of communism. The other policy was to keep communism from spreading from where it already was into other places in Asia like Korea.
What is the Truman Doctrine & Containment?
Daily Double!!!! Three Answers: 1968 was a tense and difficult year in U.S. History. Three events contributed to this climate. One was a military attack in Vietnam that was viewed widely as unsuccessful. The other two were the assassinations of two American leaders: one was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and the other was a potential candidate in the 1968 Presidential Election and brother of a former president.
What is the Tet Offensive? Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. or MLK? Who is Robert F. Kennedy, or RFK?
President Nixon's efforts to increase U.S. relations with this Asian country led to an influx of customers from this country to American businesses and created more division between them and the Soviet Union.
What is China?
This presidential election cycle was unprecedent due to its diverse candidate pool which included Women, African American, and Veteran candidates and showed American politics was becoming more inclusive.
What is the Election of 2008?
Truman's choice to integrate this section of the federal government showed that the federal government was beginning to take action to end race-based discrimination.
What is the U.S. Military?