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The most powerful body of the what the security council is responsible for maintaining international peace
United Nations
The two leading communist nations that opposed the United States during the Cold War where what and what
Soviet Union and China
The worst responded with the word after the Soviets blocked all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin
Berlin airlift
Who commanded the UN troops in Korea during the Korean conflict
General Douglas Mac Arthur
On January 1, 1959 the government of Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by the rebel army of what
Fidel Castro
The word war was the longest military conflict in the history of United States
Vietnam
Astronaut who was the first American to orbit the earth and who was the first astronaut to walk on the moon
John Glenn Junior… Neil Armstrong
The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka declared that racial segregation in public schools was what
Unconstitutional
Who was the civil rights leader assassinated in Tennessee
Martin Luther King Junior
Under threat of impeachment due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal who resigned in 1974
Richard Nixon
Who was the first president not elected to either device presidency or the presidency
Gerald Ford
Ownership of the Panama Canal was handed over to during that Carter administration
Panama
Who ruled Iran after this shah was disposed
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian militants took how many American hostages and Amanda did the return of the shah
66
The first female Supreme Court Justice was who
Sandra Day O’Connor
President Reagan off the rise military action on who to prevent her from becoming a Soviet outpost
Granada
After the cold war Boris Yeltsin became the first president of what
Russia
Division of Kuwait by who in 1990 let the Persian gulf war
Iraq
President Clinton twice vetoed the word which would have made partial-birth abortion illegal
Partial birth abortion’s band act
In 1995 the Alfred P Murrah federal building in where was destroyed by a truck bomb
Oklahoma City
Thousands of people for Haiti and try to enter where after the overthrow of Aristide
United States
Civil War begin in Bosnia because what
This serves opposed independence from Yugoslavia
After operation Desert Storm Iraq violated her agreement to destroy all her chemical and biological weapons and to allow who to conduct a thorough investigation of all weapon facilities
The United States
The work of 2002 was designed to give all American children equal educational opportunities
No Child left behind act
On what date the worst terrorist act upon United States soil cumulated in the distruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and extensive damage to the Pentagon near Washington DC
September 11, 2001
Who and his terrorist organization we’re behind the terrorist attack
Osama bin Ladin
Overthrowing the Taliban, capturing Osama bin Laden, and destroying the Al Qaeda terrorist network was the three-part objective for what
War on terror
President George W. Bush order the invasion of what in March 2003 because he was informed by military intelligence that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction
Iraq
Who, the first African-American candidate to be nominated for president won the election of 2008 and became the 44th president of the United States
Barack Obama
