Presidents
What president resigned due to his illegal activity?
Who is Richard Nixon?
What was the name of the cartoon that the government put out regarding the Cold War and Bombs?
Who was Bert the Turtle?
What was the name of the herbicide sprayed on the forest during the Vietnam War to try and kill the jungle?
What is Agent Orange?
What does NATO stand for?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This Amendment changed the voting/draft age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Who was the super conservative president who served as the 40th?
What was the name of the satellite that was sent into space with a dog in it by the USSR and never returned?
What was Sputnik 2?
This theory was that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would weaken and eventually fall to communism. What theory is this?
What is the Domino Theory?
What year did we land on the moon?
What is 1969?
It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled.
What is the 25th Amendment?
President JFK created this policy to increase educational support, fight against poverty, lower taxes, raise the minimum wage, prohibit racial discrimination, and increase defense spending. What is the name of the policy?
This structure, built in 1961, physically divided a European city to prevent citizens from fleeing from a communist state to a democratic one.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This was a plan created by the US to help South Vietnam self-govern, self-develop, and provide its own self-defense. What was this plan called?
What is Vietnamization?
This 1962 confrontation occurred when the United States discovered Soviet nuclear missiles being placed just 90 miles from its coast.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This agreement between the U.S. and USSR limited the number of nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
What are SALT I and II?
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this vice president was sworn in aboard Air Force One
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
This Cold War rivalry involved the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly building up nuclear weapons and military technology.
What is the Arms Race?
What election year had all of these events happen? The assassination of JFK, the assassination of MLK, 54 straight days of Racial Riots, and Lots of Vietnam War talk.
What was the election of 1968?
Unlike the Marshall Plan, this Cold War policy focused on providing military and economic aid to resist communist expansion rather than rebuilding European economies.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
At this conference, Allied leaders agreed on post-war plans for Europe that helped set the stage for the Cold War.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This president became the only U.S. president never elected as either president or vice president.
Who is President General Ford?
This metaphor, popularized in a 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, described the political and ideological division separating Western democracies from Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This attack was a surprise, caught the US off guard, and was carried out by the NVA and the Viet Cong.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This term describes the period in the early 1950s when Americans were accused of communism with little or no evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
Created in response to NATO, this Soviet-led military alliance included Eastern European communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?