STAAR Stampede: Cold War to Present 2024

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

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

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

What alliance provided collective security against Soviet attacks?

1st woman appointed to the Supreme Court

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

Purpose of the HUAC

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

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

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

What is the significance of the 2008 Presidential Election?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cold War competition to build more powerful nuclear weapons

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

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

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

Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for what disease?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What congressional law was meant to outlaw segregation and discrimination?

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

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

How did JFK respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

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