Gilded Age
This French word is an economic system that means the government would take a "hands-off" approach to the economy.
Laissez-Faire
This was a coded message sent to Mexico from Germany, that proposed a military alliance against the United States.
This policy was implemented during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
These were the political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland.
The Camp David Accords
This conflict involved the United States, Iraq, and Kuwait. The United States and UN forces expelled the Iraqi military led by Saddam Hussein from the oil rich country of Kuwait.
The Persian Gulf War
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
A Strike
This was the largest amphibious invasion in history that took place on June 6, 1944 when the Allies invaded Normandy, France in World War II. It was codenamed "Operation Overlord".
D-Day
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets put up a blockade around the city.
The Berlin Airlift
This was the scandal that involved the break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee and the attempt by President Nixon to cover it up.
Watergate
This act enabled investigators to gather information when looking into the full range of terrorism-related crimes and was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The USA Patriot Act of 2001
This had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
The Transcontinental Railroad
Total War
This was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was the scandal where the Reagan administration secretly sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of Americans held hostage, and then used the profits from that sale to illegally support right-wing insurgents in Nicaragua
Iran-Contra Affair
Terrorists under Al Qaeda hijacked and crashed four commercial aircraft. Two of which, hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC, one hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the fourth was overtaken by passengers and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3000 people were killed and many more injured.
September 11, 2001
This was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States and provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
On the morning of December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy” according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Japanese forces launched an attack on this U.S. naval station in Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
This term was used for a period of general easing of the geopolitical tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Détente
Supreme Court case that ruled that a state law requiring that children attend school past eighth grade violates the parents' constitutional right to direct the religious upbringing of their children.
Wisconsin v. Yoder
The act was enacted to expand coverage, hold insurance companies more accountable, lower healthcare costs, give people more choice for insurance, and increase the quality of healthcare/ health insurance.
Affordable Care Act or Obamacare
This belief states that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle - the rich were rich and the poor were poor due to natural selection in society.
Social Darwinism
This was the secret military operation for research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
The Manhattan Project
This is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.
NATO
What was the official name for Reagan's $1 trillion "Star Wars" program?
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
These two elections were controversial because the winner did not win the popular vote but did win the Electoral College.
2000 and 2016