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Question 1

a prominent group of conservative protestant ministers against homosexuality and abortion

Answer 1

Religious Right

Question 2

a form of rebellion in the 60s

Answer 2

Rock n Roll

Question 3

reagon’s plan to curb the deficit and balance the budget that had plagued carter. Cut social welfare programs and taxes, believing prosperity would “trickle down”

Answer 3

Reaganomics

Question 4

restructuring: the plan to slowly convert the soviet union into a more capitalist economy

Answer 4

Perestroika

Question 5

a slow burning chemical agent dropped with bombs to make more destructive

Answer 5

Napalm

Question 6

gorbachev’s plan to relax some of the political strictures of the soviet union

Answer 6

Glasnost

Question 7

nixon’s policy to establish more peaceful relations with the soviet union, tried to divert attn from vietnam failures

Answer 7

Détente

Question 8

…the values of middle class society and embraced a new style that defied traditonal standards

Answer 8

Counterculture

Question 9

led to a 20% population growth and increasing consumer demand

Answer 9

Baby boom

Question 10

a chemical that killed forest lands and drove out viet cong

Answer 10

Agent Orange

Question 11

pro communist guerillas in south vietnam

Answer 11

Viet Cong

Question 12

legalized abortion

Answer 12

Roe v. Wade

Question 13

MLK led more than 200000 civil rights activits

Answer 13

March on Washington

Question 14

an angry mob of whites prevented 9 african amer’s from entering little rock HS

Answer 14

Little Rock Nine

Question 15

3 americans were held hostage in iran, and carter failed to rescue them. militants wanted shah restored.

Answer 15

Iran Hostage Crisis

Question 16

hollywood screenwriters who were suspected communists

Answer 16

Hollywood Ten

Question 17

a group of southern Democrats who opposed Truman’s stance on civil rights broke from the party in 1948

Answer 17

Dixiecrats

Question 18

the 5 men involved in the watergate breakin

Answer 18

CREEP

Question 19

the prime ministers of egypt and israel signed this to end the war, 1978

Answer 19

Camp David Accords

Question 20

supreme court struck down segregated schools

Answer 20

Brown v. Board of Education