US Presidents
What president fought in WW2 and was president during the Cuban missile crisis, and ended up getting assassinated?
Who is John F Kennedy
What event was considered the lowest point in American History, that occured between 1929-1941
What was the Great Depression
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
What civil activist refused to give up her seat on a bus in montgomery, Alabama and got arrested for it?
Who was Rosa Parks
What was the race called between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who can get a man to the moon first?
What was the Space Race
Who became president during the great Depression in 1933 and promised during WW2 tried to form the United Nations?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
What terrorist attack from the Al Qaeda killed 2,977 people,
What is 9/11
What country was the United States at war with for over 30 years without ever declaring war, and contained the Viet Cong.
What was the Vietnam War
What Civil Right activist used non-violent protests and delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963?
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.
What form of government was the Soviet Union trying to spread, and the US was trying to stop?
What is communism
What president served during the 9/11 attacks?
Who is George W. Bush
What pejorative term is used for the powerful 19th-century American industrialists and financiers who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries?
What are Robber Barons
What war was fought because of territorial disputes following the U.S. annexation of Texas?
What was the Mexican-American War
What civil rights activist was 6 years old when she was protested against to leave an all-white school?
Who was Ruby Bridges
What war divided the country next to China into 2 countries, the north one being communist, and the south country being capitalist?
What is the Korean War
Which president was also an actor before their presidency?
Who is Ronald Reagan
Which landmark supreme court decision upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine?
What was Plessy V. ferguson
Where was the famous picture of the U.S. Flag being raised after a successful scaling of Mount Suribachi?
Where is Iwo Jima
What civil rights activist believed in using violence in his protests and changed his last name?
Who was Malcolm X
What was the world scared of happening if the United States and Soviet Union launched nuclear weapons at each other?
What is MAD (Mutually assured Destruction)
What president was the only president to serve as the Chief Justice of the Supreme court, and also as president?
Who is William Howard Taft
The sinking of this boat by a German U-Boat killed 1,198 people (including 128 Americans).
What was the sinking of the Lusitania
What war was fought over who controlled Cuba, Phillippines, and Guam?
What was the Spanish-American war
Which civil rights activist was the first African American to graduate Harvard and cofounded the NAACP (National Assoacation for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Who is WEB DuBois
What was the first real threat of the Soviet Union using nuclear weapons on the United States called?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis