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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 22
Question | Answer |
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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 |