Group of people who rejected tradition and social norms of the day.
What is the counterculture?
100
What scandal prompted President Reagan to say "A few months, ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages..."
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
100
What was Clinton's called the teflon president?
Good economic ratings
100
Domestic outcome of the US bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Increased anti-war activity
100
Growing concern about pollution spawned the birth of this day of environmental awareness in 1970
What is Earth Day?
200
Led to the end of Johnson's Great Soceity
The cost of the Vietnam War
200
Reason the counterculture ended
Drug use and violence
200
Agreement that made the US, Canada and Mexico one large trade zone
What is NAFTA?
200
By the 1990's most immigrants to American came from this region of the world
What is Latin America?
200
College where 4 students were killed during confrontations with the National Guard
Kent State
300
Reason that George Bush, Jr called for an invasion of Afghanistan
The Taliban refused to deliver Osama bin Laden to the US
300
Name for the theory Reagan supported that said economic growth would occur when business taxes were reduced
What is "supply-side" or "trickle-down economics"
300
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
300
State with a ballot debacle in the presidential election in which that state ultimately determined the election. The actual person elected conceded the election during a lengthy recount process.
What is Florida?
300
Meaning of "deficit"
What is spending more money than you have?
400
Chief impact of the immigration policy in the US after 1965
What is increased diversity?
400
What was the outcome of Watergate
Nixon resigned
400
Middle Eastern country that held American hostages in 1979
Iran
400
The US invaded Afghanistan as a direct result on the event
What is the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001?
400
President Johnson's program that improved the lives of many underprivileged Americans
Great Society
500
1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli leaders to make a peace agreement both could live with
What is the Camp David Accords?
500
Occurred after the Berlin Wall fell
Breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
500
Country that invaded Kuwait in 1990 sparking the Persian Gulf War
What is Iraq?
500
Result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
United Nations fighting Saddam Hussein's troops in the First Gulf War (aka Persian Gulf War)