WWII Cold War and 50s Culture Vietnam War and Hippies Civil Rights 1970s to 2000s
100
What is the Battle of Midway?
This battle involved the island hopping strategy in the Pacific
100
What is containment?
This was the main foreign policy on how to deal with communism.
100
What is the Tet Offensive?
The coordinated attacks by North Vietnamese in this event showed the US would not easily win the war.
100
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
The bus boycotts in Montgomery led to the creation of this MLK-led civil rights group.
100
What is the New Right?
This conservative movement was in response to the liberalism of the 1960s and had Ronald Reagan as its face.
200
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This law allowed the United States to give aid to Britain while still remaining neutral.
200
What is the Marshall Plan?
This American plan helped bring Western Europe out of an economic crisis by sending them direct aid.
200
What is the counter culture/hippie movement?
The move away from 50s norms to one that focused more on self-expression can be attributed to this movement.
200
What is Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
This famous letter was written by MLK to white clergymen who did not see the point of nonviolent protest.
200
What is Watergate?
This event led to President Nixon's resignation.
300
What are women?
This segment of the population filled factories and performed other tasks they had not before during the war.
300
What is the Red Scare or McCarthyism?
This was the name given to the general feeling of paranoia during the Cold War.
300
What is Vietnamization?
This refers to the gradual withdrawal of troops in Vietnam.
300
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This Supreme Court decision used the equal protection clause to declare segregation illegal, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
300
What is OPEC?
This group of Middle Eastern countries controlled US oil supply, leading to the 70s gas crisis.
400
What is the atomic bomb?
This weapon was used by President Truman to bring a decisive end to the war in Japan.
400
What are the suburbs?
Many middle class Americans moved to these for simple, cheap housing outside of the city.
400
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This is what President Johnson used to expand the war in Vietnam.
400
What is the Civil RIghts Act of 1964?
This law banned discrimination in housing and employment.
400
What is Oklahoma City bombing?
Timothy McVeigh is responsible for this terrorist action
500
What are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This African American military group was formed because of racial discrimination in the military.
500
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This event led Fidel Castro to ally the Cuban government with the Soviet Union
500
What is Agent Orange?
This defoliant chemical was used to expose enemy locations in the thick Vietnamese jungles.
500
What is Black Power Movement?
This movement saw African Americans try to advance civil rights with more direct, violent force.
500
What is the Iraq War?
The goal of this war was to topple the government of Safam Hussein.






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