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