World War II
This provision of the 1939 Neutrality Act allowed nations at war to buy arms and other supplies from the United States.
Cash & Carry Plan
What best describes the underlying cause of the Cold War?
The basic political and economic differences between the United States & the Soviet Union.
In the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court ruled that...
Separate facilities are not equal.
What was the reason JFK sent American forces (a.k.a. ‘Military advisors’) to Vietnam?
To foster political stability and protect Diem from communist influence.
Which of the following best describes the ‘cooling of Cold War tensions’ during the Nixon era?
Detente
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to...
Destroy ships and planes that threatened their expansion efforts.
How did the Allies respond to Stalin’s blockade of Berlin in 1948?
Berlin Airlift
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of...
Race
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to overthrow...
Fidel Castro and communism in Cuba.
Why is Title IX a civil rights issue?
It opened the doors for women in collegiate sports, preventing gender bias.
Executive Order 9066 affected civil liberties in the United States because...
Forced thousands of Japanese Americans into internment camps.
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
MAD (mutually assured destruction) or Brinksmanship.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Banned literacy tests and allowed the federal government to watch over voter registration and elections in selected states.
What was one result of the Great Society?
The lives of many underprivileged Americans improved.
What was the cause of the energy crisis and inflation that plagued the Carter administration in the later half of the 1970s?
The Arab-Israeli War
Describe President Truman’s chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan.
Save American lives from a full-scale Japanese mainland invasion.
Congress increased federal funding for education largely in response to...
Soviet launch of the first satellite into space (Sputnik I)
The purpose of the Freedom Rider Movement was…
Used to defy segregation laws in the south.
Media coverage of the war in Vietnam made Americans…
Increasingly dissatisfied with the war effort.
What were the two main issues the Supreme Court focused on in the 1980s?
Affirmative Action & Abortion
The worldwide peace-keeping organization created after WWII.
The United Nations
In 1950, what event began the conflict on the Korean peninsula?
Soviet-backed North Korea invading South Korea
Malcolm X favored...
Black separatism
Kennedy prevented completion of missile bases in Cuba by approving a...
naval blockade
Which of the following marred the presidency of Ronald Reagan?
Iran-Contra Scandal