LATINOS OR AMERICANS OF LATIN AMERICAN DECENT WERE A DIVERSE GROUP BECAUSE:

THEY CAME FROM ALL OVER THE CARRIBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA AND MEXICO OF WHICH HAVE VERY DISTINCT CULTURES OF THEIR OWN.

WHAT COMMISSION DID PRESIDENT KENNEDY APPOINT TO STUDY THE NATURE OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY?

THE PRESIDENT- IAL COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN 1963

WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S FINDINGS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE EARLY STATUS IN THE AMERICAN CULTURE?

THE FACTS SHOCKED A LOT OF AMERICAN WOMEN AWAKING THEM TO THE UNEQUAL STATUS OF THEIR GENDER.

THIS GENDER DISCRIMINATION RESULTED IN WHAT LEGAL CHANGES?

THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO DISCRIMINATE BY GENDER IN ANY FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAM AT ANY COLLEGE.

NOW WAS THE ABBREVIATION FOR WHAT INFLUENTIAL WOMEN’S GROUP.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN

WHAT WAS THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT ?

THIS WAS A LAW THAT WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS IN 1972 THAT WOULD HAVE GUARENTEED THAT BOTH MEN AND WOMEN WOULD ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS PROTECTIONS.

WHAT BECAME THE FATE OF THE ERA?

38 STATES WERE NEEDED TO PASS THE AMENDMENT WITH IN A 5 YEAR PERIOD. MANY GROUPS CAME OUT AGAINST THE ERA SAYING IT WOULD LEAD TO THE DRAFTING OF WOMEN AND SAME SEX MARRIAGES.

WHAT SUCCESSES DID THE 1970’S WOMEN’S MOVEMENT LEAD TO BY 1998?

THE GRADUATION RATE FOR WOMEN FROM BOTH MEDICAL AND LAW SCHOOLS HAD RISEN FROM 8% TO 42% TO 44%.

WHEN DID AMERICANS FIRST WALK ON THE MOON?

JULY 20, 1969 WITH NEAL ARMSTRONG BEING THE FIRST TO STEP FOOT ON THE MOON.

WHAT REALLY UNDONE THE PRESIDENTCY OF RICHARD M. NIXON?

WATERGATE.

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE GROUP OF BUGLERS THAT BROKE INTO THE DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS AT THE WATERGATE BUILDING?

THE PLUMBERS.

WHO WERE PRESIDENTS MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE COVERUP OF WATERGATE?

THE MEN WERE JOHN EHRLICHMAN, BOB HALDERMAN, JOHN MITCHELL AND JOHN DEAN III.

WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO STATE THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WAS INVOLVED IN A COVER UP OF THE WATERGATE BREAKIN?

JAMES McCORD

WHAT EXCUSE DID PRESIDENT NIXON USE TO KEEP THE TAPES RECORDED IN THE OVAL OFFICE?

IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY.

WHAT EFFECT DID WATERGATE HAVE ON GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS ?

ALONG WITH THE VIETNAM WAR, WATERGATE CAUSED A GREAT FEELING OF DISALLUSIONMENT WITH THE OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.

WHAT PRESIDENT FOLLOWED PRESIDENT NIXON?

PRESIDENT GERALD FORD WHO BECAME VICE PRESIDENT AFTER NIXON WON ELECTION NOW BECAME PRESIDENT.

WHAT WAS UNUSUAL ABOUT PRESIDENT FORD BECOMING PRESIDENT?

HE WAS NEVER ELECTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DIRECTLY.

WHO WAS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WHO WAS THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA AND WON THE ELECTION AGAINST GERALD FORD?

JIMMY CARTER

WHAT PROBLEM PLAGUED JIMMY CARTER DURING HIS PRESIDENCY THAT HURT HIM IN THE 1980 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AGAINST RONALD REAGAN?

IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS

THE MAIN ISSUES THAT PRESIDENT REAGAN RAN ON THAT NEEDED TO BE RESOLVED?

ABORTION PORNOGRAPHY THE TEACHING OF EVOLUTION PRAYER IN SCHOOL

ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1980 WAS :

THE UNITED STATES SENATE BECAME UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHICH WAS THE FIRST TIME IN 26 YEARS.

PRESIDENT REAGAN WON BY WHAT % OF THE POPULAR VOTE AND BY HOW MANY ELECTORIAL COLLEGE VOTES:

HE RECEIVED 44 MILLION VOTES OR 51% AND 489 VOTES OF THE ELECTORIAL COLLEGE.

WHO WAS THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT AND APPROVED BY THE SENATE TO EVER SERVE ON THE SUPREME COURT?

SANDRA DAY O’CONNER

DURING THE 1980’S, WHAT GROUPS SAW GREAT STRIDES TOWARD THEIR RIGHTS?

AFRICAN AMERICANS – FIRST GOVERNOR IN THE NATION IN VIRGINIA FIRST TO RUN IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LATINOS- BILINGUAL EDUCATION IN THOSE AREAS OF CONCENTRATION. NATIVE AMERICANS- PUSHED FOR AND RECEIVED THE RIGHT TO HAVE GAMBLING ON THE RESERVATIONS. ASIANS- A GREAT INCREASE IN THEIR IMMIGRATION.

WHAT DESTROYED THE SOVIET UNION’S ABILITY TO STAY IN THE COLD WAR?

DRASTIC ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.

WHO BECAME LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION IN 1988?

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

WHAT IS THE TERM OF OPENNESS IN RUSSIAN THAT GORBACHEV BEGAN ONCE IN POWER?

GLASNOST

WHAT TREATY REDUCED TWO TYPES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES?

INF TREATY INTERMEDIATE RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY.

WHAT GOVERNMENT TOOK THE PLACE OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM IN 1992 UNDER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH?

THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

WHAT COUNTRY UNDER THE OLD SOVIET SYSTEM WAS THE FIRST TO REPUDIATE THE COMMUNIST RULE BY OPENNING UP THE BERLIN WALL?

EAST GERMANY