1950s
This generation was born after WWII.
What are the Baby Boomers?
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon participated in the first one of these.
What is a Presidential debate on television?
This war led the end of the military draft in the United States?
What is the Vietnam War?
This new form of media connected the world in the 1990s.
What is the internet?
This Alaskan hit the game tying shot over Derrick Rose in the 2008 NCAA National Title Game.
Who is Mario Chalmers?
These two nations were the primary opponents of Cold War.
Who are the United States and Soviet Union?
This President created a domestic policy program called the Great Society.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This President was at the center of the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This third party candidate received 19% of the vote in the 1992 election.
Who is Ross Perot?
Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook at this prestigious university.
What is Harvard?
The U.S. tried to prevent the spread of this ideology during the Cold War?
What is Communism?
He was the first black person to become a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Gloria Steinem was one of the primary leaders of this social movement.
What is Feminism?
State at the center fo the ballot controversy in the 2000 election.
What is Florida?
In 2005 this hurricane devastated New Orleans with the worst floods the city had ever experienced.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This U.S. Senator, from Wisconsin, led hearings regarding the "Red Scare" in America.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
MLK gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" at this important civil rights event organized by A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin.
What is the March on Washington?
This president was seen as the face of the conservative surge in the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This governing body ultimately decided the 2000 election.
What is the Supreme Court?
This man became the first black U.S. Attorney General.
Who is Eric Holder?
This form of entertainment became dominant in the 1950s introducing stars like Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Walter Cronkite.
What is Television?
This man gave the speech called "The Ballot or the Bullet".
Who is Malcom X?
The Camp David Accords attempted to negotiate peace between these two countries.
What are the Israel and Egypt?
A financial bubble in this market resulted in the Great Recession of 2008.
What is the housing market?
This BP offshore drilling rig exploded and caused the largest oil spill U.S. waters history.
What is Deepwater Horizon?