Nixon got in trouble for covering up what scandal?
What is Watergate
100
Term for the economic crisis both faced. High unemployment, high inflation, slow/little economic growth
What is stagflation
100
Saddam Hussein was the leader of what country?
What is Iraq
100
Organization that claimed responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
What is al-Qaeda
100
What was the domestic program that Clinton was unable to implement
What is HealthCare
200
What did Gerald Ford do as president with regards to Nixon?
What is pardoned Nixon
200
Name of the first woman Supreme Court Justice nominated by Reagan
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor
200
Name of the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice
Who is Sonia Sotomayor
200
Why did the United States invade Iraq during the Gulf War?
To get Hussein out of Kuwait
200
Term for Reagan's policy of focusing on creating more supply to fix the economic problems the U.S. faced
What is Reaganomics
300
Term for the presidency under Nixon when the executive branch had become increasingly powerful
What is the Imperial Presidency
300
The Camp David Accords was between what three nations? What was the result?
What is Israel, U.S., and Egypt. Peace between Egypt and Israel (Egypt was the first Arab nation to make peace with Israel)
300
Why was Hurricane Katrina so devastating? (besides loss of life)
The rescue response was delayed, the levee was unable to contain the storm water, hurt oil and gas industries
300
The United States believed that Iraq had what kind of weapons (which would later lead to the invasion of Iraq)?
What is Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)
300
This agreement was meant to gradually eliminate tariffs and promote free trade. It was between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
400
What was the name of Richard Nixon's right hand man who dealt with foreign affairs?
Who is Henry Kissinger
400
Why did Iranians hold some Americans at the U.S. embassy hostage in 1979?
Because the U.S. helped the Shah of Iran with medical treatment and backed Israel against Arab nations in wars
400
The collapse of which industry helped lead to the financial collapse in 2008-2009
What is housing
400
What Cabinet position was created to deal with keeping the U.S. secure from all threats, nuclear detection, and intelligence coordination
What is the Department of Homeland Security
400
Who was the female advocate against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s?
Who is Phyllis Schlafly
500
What was the ruling in United States v. Richard Nixon (1974)?
Nixon had to surrender the tape recordings of White House conversations
500
Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. sold arms to Iran for hostages. What did we use the profits for?
What is to aid anti-communist rebels (Contra) in Nicaragua who were fighting the communist government
500
Proposed by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, this was to tell voters mid-term what Republicans would do if voted into office in the next election
What is Contract with America
500
This Act, in 2001, expanded the government’s law enforcement powers allowing for sweeping searches, surveillance, detention of immigrants, and monitoring of bank accounts
What is USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
500
Which Act was it where $700 billion was spent by the federal government in a bailout package to create new jobs, keep existing jobs, spur economic activity, and invest in long-term infrastructure development
What is American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008