The primary source of factory labor during WWII. Drastically changed gender roles in the post war period.
What were women?
100
This conflict was fought between 1950 and 1953 to contain communism in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
100
The main goal of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is end racial segregation?
100
Gave President Johnson the authority to defend American interests in Vietnam.
What is Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
100
Law passed after the 9/11 attacks curtailing some civil liberties.
What is the USA PATRIOT ACT?
200
The turning point of WWII in the Pacific.
What is Midway?
200
This President's goal was to contain communism in nations where it already existed, after WWII.
Who is Truman?
200
Martin Luther King Jr's means of peaceful protest.
What is Soul Force?
200
President Johnson's attempt to help minorities and the poor in the U.S. through government programs. Failed because of spending in Vietnam.
What is The Great Society?
200
Lowered tariffs between Mexico, Canada, and United States.
What is NAFTA?
300
These two cities were destroyed by atomic bombs at the end of WWII.
What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
The U.S. led alliance that protected Western Europe from the communist East.
What is NATO?
300
Civil Right leader, and member of the National of Islam, who doffed with MLK on the goals of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Event that led to President Nixon's resignation from office.
What is Watergate?
300
Requires equal funding of men's and women's athletics, in public school.
What is Title IX?
400
This future U.S president commanded American forces in Europe.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
The U.S. attempted to remove this Cuban leader rom power throughout the late 1950s and early1960s.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
Book written by Betty Frieden urging women to fight for equal economic and political rights.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
400
Nixon's attempt to lessen the tension between the U.S. and
Soviet Union.
What is detente?
400
The agreement brokered between Israel and Egypt by President Carter.
What are the Camp David Accords?
500
This agreement between FDR and Churchill called for freedom of the seas, and self -determination for all people. it served as the basis for the UN after the war.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
500
Using fear to advance one's political career.
What is McCarthyism?
500
Organized the United Farm Workers in an attempt to protect the rights of migrant labor.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
The village in Vietnam that was the site of a U.S. massacre of civilians.
What is My Lai?
500
State that decided the presidential election of 2000. President Bush won by fewer that 300 votes.