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45 Cards in this Set
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when the courts ruled that schools should no longer be segregated |
Brown v. Board of Education |
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who is famous for their I have a dream speech |
Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. |
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what promised that all races would be able to vote, live, and work whenever they chose |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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first black American to be an adviser to the President |
Robert Weaver |
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first black supreme court justice |
Thurgood Marshall |
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first Japanese American to serve in the US congress |
Senator Daniel Ken Inoye |
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first Japanese woman to serve in the US Congress |
Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink |
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two examples of new technology Americans enjoyed after WWII |
Computers and TV |
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who started the Interstate Highway System |
Dwight Eisenhower |
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what is the Interstate Highway System |
it would connect America by making highways and interstates |
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first American in space |
Alan B Shepard Jr. |
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first man to walk on the moon |
Neil Armstrong |
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What happened to the spacecraft Challenger |
the shuttle exploded while many Americans were watching it on TV |
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What schoolteacher died on the Challenger |
Christa McAuliffe |
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which space shuttle tragically broke up and burned when it reentered earth's atmosphere |
Columbia |
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The conflict between the US and the Soviet Union. It happened because the Soviet Union wanted to control the world with Communism |
Cold War |
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communist dictator of Cuba |
Fidel Castro |
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what president promised to help Cuban freedom fighters |
President John F Kennedy |
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why did President Kennedy order the Navy to form a blockade against Cuba. What was it called |
Cuban Missle Crisis |
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Who became President when Kennedy was killed |
Lyndon Johnson |
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The US sent troops to South Vietnam to help them fight against communism. What was that called |
Vietnam War |
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what president withdrew the troops from South Vietnam |
President Nixon |
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first president to ever resign from office |
Nixon |
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who became president after nixon |
Gerald Ford |
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what incident forced President Nixon to resign |
Watergate Afair |
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what president came in and tried to get the US to go back to traditional Christian value |
President Ronald Reagan |
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known as the great communicator |
Reagan |
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What island nation did American forcs rescue from Communist invasion |
Granata |
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What words were Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
Under God |
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When was bible and prayer removed from the public school |
1960 |
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What was the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O'conner |
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Whom did President George Bush choose to replace justice Thurgood Marshall |
Clarence Thomas |
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the dictator of Iraq |
Saddam Hussein |
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what country did Saddam Hussein invade in 1990 |
Kuwait |
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what president the sent the US military to force Hussein out of Kuwait |
President George bush |
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What was the name to war when Bush forced Hussein out of Kuwait |
Operation Desert Storm |
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what was the shortest war ever fought for the US |
Operation Desert Storm |
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who was President when several acts of terrorism were commited to the US, including a bomb in the World Trade Center |
Bill Clinton |
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who was president during 9/11 |
George W Bush |
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What was 9/11 |
terrorists hijacked several passenger airplanes and used to to attack the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon |
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Who and his radical Islamic terrorist network was responsible for 9/11 |
Osama bin Laden |
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who was the first target of the "war on terror" |
Taliban |
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what was it called when the US set out to remove Saddam Hussein from power |
Operation Iraqi Freedom |
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In 2002, what did Irag enjoy for the first time in 50 years |
free election |
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what hurricane devasted New Orleans in 2005 |
Hurricane Katrina |
