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President Carter met with the President from Egypt and Israel for face-to-face negotiations between the two countries, after which an agreement was reached known as the ______ ________ _______.
What is the Camp David Accords
This event in 1948 involved the allied countries airdropping supplies into a blockaded city
Berlin airlift
13 days in October that became the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Name two Axis Power countries
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
This lasted for nearly twenty years and ended with the Fall of Saigon and the country being taken over by Communists
What is the Vietnam War
The belief that if South Vietnam were to fall to Communism, other countries near it like Cambodia, Laos and Thailand would soon face the same outcome.
What is the "Domino Theory"
A ___________ _____ was caused by the American people feeling as though our government was lying to them, which led to many Americans losing faith in our governments reliability.
What is Credibility Gap
This was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression.
What is New Deal (reform for the banking system, recovery for the economy, and relief for the needy)
The date of October 29th, 1929 is known as ?
Black Tuesday
This president came up with his own idea on how to fix the American economy known as "supply-side economics" or "_______________"
What is Reaganomics
This man from Cuero, Texas won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War
What is Roy Benavidez
When Nixon took over as president during the Vietnam War, he incorporated _____________, which was the gradual removal of U.S. troops putting more of the war effort back onto the South Vietnamiese
What is Vietnamization
Members at the U.S. embassy in Iran were taken hostage and held for 444 days until the day Ronald Reagan took office as President
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis
First female Supreme Court Justice
What is Sandra Day O'Connor
Which piece of legislation desegregated the U.S., requiring equal treatment regardless of race?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This case desegregated public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
This started following Saddam Hussein's (Iraq) invasion of Kuwait for oil and his refusal to withdraw from the country following requests from the United Nations to do so.
What is the Persian Gulf War (1990)
This president created the national highway system in a decade of national prosperity (and fear of nuclear war).
What is Dwight Eisenhower
This man founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
Secret foreign policy operation during the Reagan administration that involved trading guns to "terrorists" in exchange for American hostages
What is Iran-Contra Affair
Labor Unions
This law placed Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War 2
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9981
Wrote the "Feminine Mystique"
Who is Betty Friedan
Political scandal that occurred after five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
What is Watergate?