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What is the NAACP? What was their main goal?
2
Define Integration and Segregation
3
Be able to describe the following organized events:
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Freedom Riders
4
What was the purpose of the affirmative action program?
5
Who created the United Farm Workers Organization Committee (UFWOC)? Why?
6
Identify the following Civil Rights legislation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
7
What caused the US to no longer support Fidel Castro?

Describe the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis
8
What acts/programs were created under the Great Society, a.k.a. War on Poverty?
9
What event(s) kicked started the Environmental Movement?
10
What causes US involvement in Vietnam?
11
Describe the Pentagon Papers
12
Describe the follow Cold War terms:
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Geneva Accords
Containment
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
My Lai Massacre
13
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
14
Describe the impact the draft had on American citizens and their support for the Vietnam war
15
Describe the hippie movement
16
Describe the impact television had on the …
Presidential debate between Kennedy/Nixon, 1960
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam War
Moon landing
17
Describe the Space Race
18
Describe the Watergate Scandal
Define Executive Privilege & it’s role in U.S. v. Nixon
What happened to President Nixon?
19
Describe the impact of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique
20
What did the National Organization for Women (NOW) work towards?
21
Describe the following Environmental Movement Terms:
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Endangered Species Act
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
22
What is the importance of the Camp David Accords in 1978?
23
Describe the impact of the Iranian Revolution
24
What happened as a result of the Iranian Hostage Crisis?

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25
What was the significance of the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989?
26
Describe the events and impact of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, 1992
27
What was the purpose of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
28
Describe the impact of the September 11th attacks on the United States
29
What was the outcome of the War in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s?
30
What was the Occupy Wall Street movement and what were they protesting?
31
Describe the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on society
32
What was the significance of the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015?
33
Describe the impact of the #MeToo movement on society
34
What is the significance of the Women's Marches that have taken place since 2017?
35
What is the role of social media in modern social movements and activism?