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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The worship of nature | pantheism |
| Term for the poorest nations vulnerable to Communism | Third World |
| The theory that states that once one country falls to Communism, the other countries in the area will fall as well. | Domino Theory |
| Founder of Wal-Mart | Sam Walton |
| Atheist and Communist who used her son in court to remove Bible reading and prayer from the public schools. | Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
| The devastating North Vietnamese offensive begun on a Buddhist holiday | Tet Offensive |
| The university in Ohio where angry and violent demonstrations ended in the death of four students | Kent State |
| He assassinated Robert F. Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan |
| Communist guerrillas that terrorized South Vietnam | Viet Cong |
| North Vietnamese navy allegedly attacked American ships in this Vietnamese gulf | Gulf of Tonkin |
| Headed the Department of Housing and Urban Development | Robert Weaver |
| Russian exile and author | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| President who presided over the Camp David Accord | Jimmy Carter |
| First man to step foot on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Built up American power in Vietnam to 500,000 men | Lyndon Johnson |
| First black Supreme Court justice | Thurgood Marshall |
| National Security Adviser to Nixon | Henry Kissinger |
| Revolutionary leader of Iran | Ayatollah Khomeini |
| Third party candidate in two Presidential elections | George Wallace |
| First President to resign from office | Richard Nixon |
| Lawyer's group that forces Christianity out of public life | ACLU |
| Monopoly that controls the production and cost of oil | OPEC |
| Department created by Johnson to improve housing conditions | HUD |
| Required federal supervision of local elections | Voting Rights Act |
| Site of a nuclear accident | Three Mile Island |
| Easing of tensions between the United States and U.S.S.R. | detente |
| Arms agreement between the U.S.S.R. and the United States | SALT |
| Social welfare program of President Johnson | Great Society |
| Presidential cover-up of an illegal break-in | Watergate |
| Prohibited discrimination when selling houses | Fair Housing Act |
| This anti-Communist leader was overthrown by Iranian rebels | Shah of Iran |
| The Yom Kippur War was fought between the Arabs and this country | Israel |
| The Muslim promoter of "black power" and segregation in the Civil Rights movement | Malcom X |
| Israel won a strong victory in this war in 1967 | Six Day War |
| This Vice President was forced to resign because of his tax evasion an bribe-taking | Spiro Agnew |
| The controversial Supreme Court decision legalized abortion. | Roe v. Wade |
| What country was overrun by the Communists in 1975 | South Vietnam |
| The Camp David Accords was a peace agreement between Israel and this nation | Egypt |
| The secular humanist who promoted progressive education | John Dewey |
| African-American Vietnam war hero | Chappie James |
| The southern third of the nation that experienced a population increase due to its warm climate | Sunbelt |
| A revolution in this country brought the Sandinistas to power, a Communist group opposed by the Contras. | Nicaragua |