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This man made the decision to drop the atomic bomb in WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Population explosion from the 1940s to 1960s.
What is the baby boom?
100
This Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is 26th Amendment?
100
Truman's policy to prevent communism from spreading.
What is containment?
100
American migration patterns after WWII trended toward this region of the country.
What is the Sunbelt?
200
This US president spoke out for human rights for peoples throughout the world.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
200
The early court case that dealt with teaching evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes trial?
200
Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
The economic theory that states that reduced taxes leads to economic prosperity.
What is supply side economics?
200
This organization was created to halt Soviet aggression after WWII.
What is the NATO?
300
This president escalated involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
300
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday (stock market crash)?
300
This Supreme Court case dealt with the right of someone being arrested to be notified of their legal rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
300
The policy of the federal government towards Native Americans that attempted to end federal support and discontinue the reservation system.
What is termination policy?
300
Programs that make a special effort to include minority groups in hiring, enrollment, etc.
What is affirmative action?
400
He was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Bill Clinton?
400
American-led operation to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces in 1991.
What is Desert Storm
400
This Supreme Court decision reversed the court's earlier Plessy v. Fergusson decision.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
400
Part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society declared this.
What is the War on Poverty?
400
The law passed by FDR that established unemployment insurance and old age pensions.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
Communist leader of USSR during the 1980's.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
This event in the 1950s transformed the civil rights movement.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
500
Many of the laws FDR proposed in the his first Hundred Days aimed to do this.
What is reform banking and protect the economy from complete collapse?
500
Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
What is isolationism?
500
The scandal during Reagan's presidency that involved selling arms illegally to one nation and siphoning the money to freedom fighters in Nicaragua.
What is Iran Contra affair?