STAAR Stampede: Cold War to Present 2024

Media Coverage of the Vietnam War and the Credibility Gap led to the growth of:

U.S. responded to ____ by creating NASA & investing in education, science, & technology

Who worked to improve conditions for migrant workers by organzing the UFW?

U.S. provided financial assistance to Western Europe to rebuild & prevent the spread of communism

What alliance provided collective security against Soviet attacks?

Part of LBJ's Great Society; provided health care for Americans over 65

What congressional law ended poll taxes & literacy tests and resulted in more minorities voting?

What 1963 non-violent mass protest aimed to improve political rights & economic opportunities for African Americans?

New Orleans flooded due to low elevation & failure of levees during what disaster?

Purpose of the HUAC

What international organization's embargo caused gas shortages, high gas prices, & this?

Islamic revolutionaries kidnapped U.S. citizens in what country & demanded the return of the Shah?

The goal of what agreement was to reduce barriers to trade & increase investment between the 3 nations?

What agency was created to protect the environment & limit pollution?

1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court

The fall of this in 1989 signaled the end of what in Eastern Europe?

How did JFK respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

U.S. offered aid to any country facing communist revolutions

What scandal involved President Nixon attempting to cover up a crime, & led to growing distrust of the government?

Post-War economic prosperity, the Baby Boom, & increased demand for housing led to:

What Congressional law provided money for college & other economic aid for WWII Veterans?

What presidential scandal involved selling weapons to Iran to fund rebels in Nicaragua?

What congressional law was meant to outlaw segregation and discrimination?

What conflict was caused by communists invading the South & resulted in a DMZ at the 38th parallel?

Cold War competition to build more powerful nuclear weapons

What was the peace agreement signed to end hostilities between Israel & Egypt?

Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; Non-violent civil disobedience

Youth movement that protested American society, the Vietnam War, & led to the Woodstock music festival

Where did Governor Orval Faubus challenge the power to desegregate public schools by blocking 9 students?

Red Scare campaign by this U.S. Senator against alleged communists in the U.S. government & other institutions

What Nixon Cold War foreign policy aimed to relax tensions & led to the SALT I Agreement?

The Vietnam & Korean Wars represent what U.S. Cold War foreign policy?

Civil Rights group that believed in armed resistance; led by Huey Newton

Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for what disease?

What was Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

What was the immediate response by the U.S. government to the attacks on September 11, 2001?

What is the significance of the 2008 Presidential Election?