This act enabled the federal government to gather foreign intelligence information by wiretapping American citizens, even searching computers and library records.

It is referred to as the “Cold War” becasue neither the Soviet Union nor the United States officially declared war on each other.  Both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly and creating a nuclear “hot” war.

This husband and wife were convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during WWII.  The couple was later sentenced to death and were executed.  

Roe v.Wade centered around this controversial moral issue.

It authorized the President to “take all necessary measures” to protect American forces and “prevent further aggression in Southeast Asia.”

In the winter of 1942-1943 the Red Army had successfully held off a major Germany assault.  Hitler’s inability to take this city ended his eastern offensive.

Which occurred at the Battle of Okinawa?

The Tripartite Pact ______________.

The Freedmen’s Bureau ______________.

The federal government appropriated $3 billion to fund the mapping of human genes.  It identified all of 100,000 genes by 2003.