American history final

Sputnik

Significance of space race in the Cold War

National defense education act

Bay of pigs invasion

Causes of Cuban misspelling crisis

How Cuban missile crisis was resolved

Warren commission findings

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack ruby

C. I. A

Operation Ajax

Blowback

How us goal in Vietnam war differed from north vietnams goal

Ngo Dinh Diem

Ho Chi Minh

Vietcong

Ho Chi Minh trail

Ho chi Minh’s strategy to defeat u.s.: elephant v tiger

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Conscription

Ways people tried to avoid fighting in Vietnam

Criticisms of college deferments for drafts

Values of mainstream culture

Beat movement

Hippie movement

Tet offensive

Vietnamization

Kent state protest

War powers resolution

My lai massacre

Silent spring

Rachel Carson

EPA

Cuyahoga river fire

Cause of watergate scandal

Short and long term consequences of watergate scandal

Berlin Wall: who built it? Why was it built?

SDI

Reagan’s impact on ending the Cold War

National security directive 75

Gorbachevs impact on ending the Cold War

9/11 attacks: targets? How many killed?

Causes of 9/11

Response to 9/11

Department of homeland security

PATRIOT act

Debate over passage of the patriot act

• Operation Enduring Freedom - purpose & location

Taliban

• 2003 Iraq War - purpose and location

• Saddam Hussein

• Debate over treatment of suspected terrorists

• Al Qaeda

Abu Ghrab