New Deal
World War II
Cold War
Vietnam
Modern History
100

This event prompted the New Deal

The Great Depression
100

This country attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the US directly into World War II

Japan

100

These two countries led the opposing sides in the Cold War

The Soviet Union and the United States

100

This was a chemical defoliant used in Vietnam that later caused cancer among people exposed to it

Agent Orange

100

America's first African American President

Barrack Obama

200
These were the three "pillars" of the New Deal

Relief, Reform, Recovery

200

These two countries, along with the United States, made up the Big Three

Great Britain and Russia (England, UK, Soviet Union, USSR also acceptable)

200

These were the primary focus of the Cold War arms race

Atomic Bombs

200

Along with the Viet Cong, these were America's primary adversaries in the Vietnam War

The North Vietnamese Army

200

The only President to be impeached in the 20th Century

Bill Clinton
300

This New Deal agency sought to provide electric power to rural areas in the South

The Tennessee Valley Authority

300

This was the code name for the invasion of Normandy in 1944

Operation Overlord

300

An invasion across the 38th parallel sparked a "police action" in this divided country

Korea

300

This was an incendiary agent typically dropped from aircraft, as depicted in the movie Forrest Gump

Napalm

300

The only President ever to resign the office

Richard Nixon

400

This New Deal law provided old age and disability pensions and still exists today

The Social Security Act

400

This General was in charge of a fake division as part of a diversionary effort leading up to D-Day

General Patton

400

The United States attempted to invade this country using expatriates trained by the CIA at the Bay of Pigs

Cuba

400

One of the two destroyers involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964

USS Maddox or USS Turner Joy
400

This President defeated Hillary Clinton in the general election in 2016

Donald Trump

500

This New Deal law provided protections for labor unions

The Wagner Act (also known as the Labor Relations Act)

500

This pair of events essentially ended World War II

Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

500

This President of the United States successfully navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy

500

This resolution authorized the President to deploy troops to Vietnam without Congressional approval

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

500

This broad conflict involved specific combat actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other places

The War on Terror
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