1950s
This cosmic companion shocked Americans into action forcing the United States to pass the National Defense Education Act
What is sputnik?
While his Checkers speech saved him in 1952, this Republican Presidential nominee was unable to dethrone the heir apparent to the American Camelot
Who is Richard Nixon?
beginning in 1972 this scandal would eventually topple the Silent Majority's President
What is the Watergate Scandal?
the Reagan administration promised that it wasn't selling weapons for hostages in this scandal
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
Supporting their friends in Kuwait; the United States will take action against Saddam Hussein in this first battle
The First Gulf War
This drunk's Lincoln Day speech famously proclaimed that the State Department was infested with communists
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was unable to guarentee the rigths established during Reconstruction, LBJ would turn this into defeat into a victory strengthening federal oversite over the South with this act
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
feeling their constitutional power was fading due to Presidential escalation in Vietnam the 1973 Congress will pass this joint resolution
What is the War Powers Resolution?
while started during the Nixon Administration, Nancy Reagan will lead this cause by rallying at "Just Say No" events throughout the 1980s
What is the War on Drugs?
Canada, Mexico, and the United States will work together to create at the time the largest free-trade zone in the Americas
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)
Orval really tried to stop these civil rights heroes from implementing the rulings stemming from Brown v Board
Who are the Little Rock 9?
this surprise attack in 1968 by the Viet Cong took the South Vietnamese and the Americans by surprise. It would be the beginning of the end for the support of the Vietnam War
What is the Tet Offensive?
The CIA would be instrumental in overthrowing socialist President Salvador Allende and installing Augusto Pinochet as leader of this South American country?
What is Chile?
Deemed a racketeer and drug trafficker, the United States will invade this Central American country by deposing Manuel Noriega in Operation Just Cause
What is Panama?
What is the Contract with America?
You knew you made it once you made it to this conformity filled way of life. The epitome of the suburbs was located in this New York town
What is Levittown?
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is credited with helping launch the modern day environmental movement within the United States. Her book would lead to the erasure of this commercially available product
What is DDT?
Feeling that this organization had conformed against their own ideology; the FBI would famously refer to them as "the greatest threat to the inter security of the country" the Black Liberation Army split from this group founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in the 1960s
Who are the Black Panthers?
While many important Supreme Court justices will be chosen during the 1980s such as Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, none were more important than this trailblazer
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Building upon the work done at Camp David before these negotiations, President Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Ytzhak Rabin came together find peace in the Holy Land
The People's Republic of China sieged Quemoy and Matsu Islands; Ike however signaled to the world that America would not stand by if this friend was threatened. The policy is contentious because of China's One Policy
What is Formosa or Taiwan?
this portion of the Great Society has continued to be amended and added to since its inception in the middle 1960s. President George W Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and President Obama passe the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
as retribution for supporting the country of Israel during this war, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries(OAPEC) instituted a complete oil embargo upon the United States which would lead to an almost 300% rise in the price of oil
What is the Yom Kippur War?
The Soviet Union led the fight against the United in 1984 in response to the United States doing the same in Moscow four years earlier? At the time it was the most participated event of all time.
What is the 1984 Summer Olympics?
Just like the Zoot suit riots of the 1940s, the Civil Right Movement riots across the South in the 1960s and 1970s, and even the George Floyd riots of the 2020s, these riots focused on the acquitting of four police officers caught on tape assaulting an African American man
What are the 1992 Los Angeles Riots or Rodney King Riots?