This president was the first Catholic president. He was elected in 1960 and assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. He oversaw the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and fought for America's space program.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
The relationship between US and Iran.
What are the US-Iran Relations?
100
This war was a 1950s war in which to protect South Korea from falling under the influence of North Korea, China, and communism. The U.S. made a famous landing at Inchon, and the result of the war was the creation of a demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.
What is the Korean War?
100
A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This civil rights activist is best known for his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
200
This president served as Vice-President under Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s and lost the Election of 1960 to JFK. He was elected president in the Election of 1968 after which he helped expand trade in China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
This court refers to the Supreme Court of the United Sate between 1953 and 1969 when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
What is the Warren Court?
200
This battle was one of the most important naval battles of World War II and took place at the Midway atoll.
What is the Battle of Midway?
200
A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.
What is World War II?
200
A novel about the American Dream written by John Steinbeck published in 1939. (Hint: Not Of Mice and Men)
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
300
He was a conservative Republican president who urged Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, was in office during the Iran-Contra scandal, and supported supply-side economics.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
This scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
300
This invasion was executed to overthrow Fidel Castro from power in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
300
A state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc.
What is the Cold War?
300
These were Japanese POW camps during World War II after the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is the Japanese Internment?
400
He is the man who was vice-president under Richard Nixon and then became president after he was impeached.
Who is president Gerald Ford?
400
This case was a very famous case at the Supreme Court that made abortion legal in the US.
What is the Roe vs. Wade case?
400
This bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.
What is the Oklahoma City bombing?
400
A serious of federal programs to stimulate the economy and advance the country.
What is the New Deal?
400
The practice of this religious activity in schools was the source of a large conflict.
What is the School Prayer?
500
He is known as the man who shot Ronald Reagan.
Who is John Hinckley?
500
This case is acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions in the 20th century because this was the start of racial equality in schools and the United States.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education case?
500
This election is known to be the greatest election upset when Harry Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey.
What is the Election of 1948?
500
An African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He was born as Malcolm Little.
Who is Malcolm X?
500
A businessman and five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1964 election.