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Question 1

Agent Orange

Answer 1

A chemical defoliant used to clear Vietamese jungles druing the Vietnam War

Question 2

Teach-in

Answer 2

An extended meeting of class held to discuss a social or political issue

Question 3

dove

Answer 3

A person in favor of the United States withdrawing from the Vietnam War

Question 4

hawk

Answer 4

Someone who believed the U.S. should continue its military efforts in Vietnam

Question 5

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 5

Communist leader of North Vietnam who armed Vietcong gurillas to sieze power in South Vietnam

Question 6

repatriation

Answer 6

Being restored or returned to the country of origin, allegieance, or citizenship

Question 7

bilingualism

Answer 7

The practice of tiaching immigrant students in their own language

Question 8

Gloria Steinem

Answer 8

Editor of “Ms.” magazine and a leading figure of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W)

Question 9

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 9

Chamioned by N.O.W. but unable to achieve ratification by three-fourths of the states, it failed in 1982

Question 10

executive privilege

Answer 10

Principle stating that communications of the executive branch should remain cofidential to protect national security

Question 11

special prosecutor

Answer 11

A lawyer from outside the government

Question 12

Gerald Ford

Answer 12

The only U.S. President to never have been elected as President or Vice President

Question 13

Jimmy Carter

Answer 13

Former Governor of Georgia, elected as U.S. President in 1976

Question 14

Ronald Reagan

Answer 14

Former Governor of California, elected to two terms as U.S. President beginning in 1980

Question 15

perestroika

Answer 15

A policy of economic and government restructuring instituted by Mikhail Gorbachef in the Soviet Union in the 1980s

Question 16

glasnost

Answer 16

A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information

Question 17

grassroots movement

Answer 17

A group of people organizing at the local or community level, away from political or cultural centers

Question 18

George H.W. Bush

Answer 18

Former CIA Director, elected as U.S. President in 1988

Question 19

Bill Clinton

Answer 19

First elected as U.S. President in 1992, he was only the second president to be impeached

Question 20

amnesty

Answer 20

The act of granting a pardon to large groups of people

Question 21

Yasir Arafat

Answer 21

Leader of the Palestine Liberation organization and participant in peace negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993

Question 22

anthrax

Answer 22

A bacteria causing serious infection or death used to create biological weapons

Question 23

George W. Bush

Answer 23

United States president elected first in 2000 and re-elected in 2004

Question 24

Tea Party

Answer 24

A conservative political protest group rising from public anxiety over the national debt

Question 25

Arab Spring

Answer 25

A movement of popular unrest in the middle East leading to a series of revolutions against oppresive governments