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Considered the mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Passed to provide aid and prevent limitation of disabled persons (1990).
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Pact signed among the Axis powers.
What is the Tripartite Pact?
Agreement between the US and other Western countries that considered an attack on one of them as an attack on the entire group, also known as NATO.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Best known for the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
City famed for the protest and later arrest of MLK Jr.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
Allowed the deportation of declared Communists (1950).
What is the Internal Security Act of 1950.
Name for the first Black American airmen to serve in the military.
The literal representation of the dividing line between communist and democratic countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Passed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy."
Who is William "Bill" Clinton?
Originator of this term: Black Power.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
Ended quotas based on nation of origin (1965).
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act?
Name for those with the belief that the US should not intervene in supplying or aiding the Allies.
What are isolationists?
Proposed by George F. Kennan, and meant to limit the spread of Soviet Communism.
What is the Containment Policy?
Formed NASA during his presidency.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Declared that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
Allowed over 400,000 European refugees to enter the US, mostly concentration camp survivors and Eastern European immigrants (1948).
What is the Displaced Persons Act?
A meeting that took place between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill before Germany's surrender regarding post-war treatment of the Axis Nations.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Was leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Gave the famous "thousand points of light" speech.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
Jesse Jackson was the head of this in 1966.
What is Chicago Operation Breadbasket?
Prevented hiring limitations based on how old a potential worker was (1967).
What is the Age Discrimination Act?
Act passed that required all immigrants over 14 to be fingerprinted and registered (1940).
Reorganized the government military departments into the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Council (1947).
What is the National Security Act?
Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
Who was Jimmy Carter?