| A | B |
|---|
| US foreign policy sentiment prior to pearl harbor | Isolationist |
| Purchasing war materials with cash only | Cash and carry |
| Lending military arms to support the defeat of the axis nations | Lend-Lease Act |
| Skpping through the Pacific Islands to get closer to Japan | Island hopping/leap frogging |
| President during a majority of WWII | Roosevelt |
| Prime Minister of G.B. during WWII | Churchill |
| Project to build the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| President who gave the O.K. to drop the A-Bomg | Truman |
| Attack that pulled the U.S. into WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| They entered the work force in record numbers during WWII while still not achieving equal pay | Women |
| This policy paid for housing and college of veterans | GI Bill |
| This policy helped boost housing construction after WWII | GI Bill |
| This helped to avoid a return to the great depression after WWII | Consumerism |
| This decade saw the red scare at home | 1950's |
| This decade saw widespread student protests | 1960's |
| This decade saw conformity in towns such as Levittown | 1950's |
| This decade saw the rise of the suburbs | 1950's |
| This decade was marked by the Civil Rights movement | 1960's |
| US cold war policy | Containment |
| This foreign policy gave money to Greece and Turkey | Truman Doctrine |
| This foreign policy gave money to western european countries to help fight off communism | Marshall plan |
| This country was divided at the 38th parallel | Korea |
| General during the Korean War | MacArthur |
| General fired by Truman during the Korean war | MacArthur |
| The outcome of this war was a stalemate | Korean war |
| Wisconsin Senator who had a list of 200+ communist in the US government | McCarthy |
| To show buying power by NOT buying goods is known as | boycott |
| This court case overturned the idea of separate but equal | Brown vs. Board of Edu. |
| This case desegregated schools | Brown v. Board of Ed. |
| First televised Presidential debate | Nixon v. Kennedy |
| A program that sent individuals abroad to volunteer in 3rd world countries | Peace Corps |
| When faced with widespread inflation the country often does this to remove money from circulation | Raise taxes |
| Failed attempt to overthrow Castro | Bay of Pigs |
| US approach to deter the Soviets in the Cuban Missle Crisis | Naval Blockade |
| Healthcae for poor and elderly | Medicare/Medicaid |
| Alleged North Vietnamese attack on a US ship | Tonkin Gulf |
| Mass killing of a north vietnamese villiage | My Lai Massacre |
| Organized attack by the north vietnamese to coincide with the lunar new year | Tet Offensive |
| Slow removal of US troops with increase bombings | Vietnamization |
| Supply trail used by the north throughout the war | Ho Chi Minh Trail |
| Hit and run style of fighting is known as | Guerrilla warfare |
| Nixon's foreign policy expert | Kissinger |
| To reduce tensions in the cold war | Detente |
| This president was the 1st to visit China | Nixon |
| The tax paying, law following, church going section of america was known as | Silent Majority |
| To stop the flow of money to social programs is known as | impounding |
| This president pardoned Nixon of any and all crimes | Ford |
| A military program using satalites to shoot down enemy missiles | Star Wars |
| President elected to 4 terms | Roosevelt |
| Supreme commander during WWII | Eisenhower |
| Youngest elected president | Kennedy |
| President during the 9/11 attacks | George W Bush |
| He lost to Kennedy in 1960 | Nixon |
| Only president to resign from office | Nixon |
| He encouraged the country to develop alternative fuel sources | Carter |
| He hoped to create a "great society" | Lyndon Johnson |
| First man on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Assassinated in california while running for the democratic parties nomination. | Robert F. Kennedy |
| Lead lawyer for the NAACP, won the Brown v. Board case | Thuragood Marshall |
| First female on the US supreme court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| She refused to go to the back of the bus | Rosa Parks |
| First african american baseball player | Jackie Robinson |
| Only americans to be executed during the Red Scare | Rosenbergs |
| Led the march on washington, "I have a dream" | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| His country invaded Kuwait triggering the 1st gulf war | Saddam Hussein |
| Leader of the communist forces from North Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| Nazi leader during WWII | Hitler |
| Leader of the Chinese communist party | Mao Zedong |
| Leader of the totalitarianistic government in Italy during WWII | Benito Mussolini |
| Leader of Russia during WWII | Stalin |
| Cuban leader during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis | Castro |
| Countries that worked together during WWII to successfully defeat Germany and Japan | Allied Powers |
| Post WWII this organization of countries was formed to help police the world | United Nations |
| This group investigated the assassination of JFK | Warren Commission |
| This group opposed the civil rights measures be pursued by the federal government as well as its increased presence in our daily lives. | Dixiecrats |
| This group was formed by MLK to help peacefully fight for civil rights | SCLC |
| This government department fights for a cleaner less polluted world. | EPA |
| Alliance of oil producing countries | OPEC |
| A military alliance created to protect democracy against the Soviets and their allies | NATO |
| German Submarine during WWII was refered to as | U-Boat |
| Chinese Communist Leader | Mao Zedong |
| A-Bomb strike sites | Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| Eisenhower sent troops in to secure this desegrated school | Little Rock Arkansas |
| A barrier that prevents women from rising to high powered postions | Glass ceiling |
| Policy developed by Keegan | Containment |
| Flying in supplies to West Germany after being closed off by the Soviets | Berlin Airlift |
| President during the Korean War | Truman |
| Case that established seperate but equal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Who won the election of 1960 | Kennedy |
| Berlin wall was built during which Presidents term | Kennedy |
| War fought between Egypt and Israel in the early 1970's? | Yom Kippur War |
| Theory that tax cuts for the rich will work its way down to lesser earners | Trickle down theory |
| This US mission removed Saddam Hussein from Kuwait | Operation Desert Storm |
| Who said "Take down that wall" | Regan |
| Who said "read my lips, no new taxes." | George H W Bush |
| The branch of the government that impeached Clinton | House of Rep. |
| This marked the level of cooperation between the executive and legislative branch in the mid 90's | Gridlock |
| Current President | Barack Obama |
| His wife created a healthcare bill that was unsuccessful | William Clinton |
| He signed the Civil Rights act of 1964 into law | Lyndon B Johnson |
| He gave the "I have a dream" speech | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who wrote the Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan |
| Leader of NOW | Gloria Steinem |
| Creater of Ms. Magazine | Gloria Steinem |
| He said that it was not necessary to "turn the other cheek" | Malcom X |
| Who conducted The Great Purge | Stalin |
| Who is the religious Leader of Iran | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| Current President of Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Current leader of North Korea | Kim Jon-Il |
| Victory in Europe Day is known as | VE Day |
| 4 students were killed in this Ohio Protest | Kent State |
| Lyndon Johnson's attempt to cure poverty | Great Society |
| This act removed barriers to voting | Voting Rights Act 1965 |
| This domestic policy removed trade barriers between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. | NAFTA |
| This foreign policy reduced the number of neuclear weapons in the US and Russia by 2/3 | START II |
