After the end of World War II in 1945, the world became divided up and dominated by what two “Super-powers”?
What are the United States and Soviet Union?
100
This invasion humiliated the U.S. by making the Government appear indecisive and incompetent.
What is Bay of Pigs?
100
The reason Ford pardoned Nixon.
What is He did not want a long drawn out trial that would further embarrass the nation?
100
In 1980’s America, someone who valued materialism as a result of economic prosperity would have been labeled this.
What is a yuppie?
100
The prosperity of the economic boom of the 1990’s was driven by this internet based revolution.
What are dotcoms?
200
A war between the United States and the Soviet Union where the two never fought each other directly?
What is a Cold War?
200
The youngest president and first Catholic president ever elected who was assassinated in his first term.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
The event that damaged Jimmy Carter’s presidency beyond repair and a major reason behind his loss in the 1980 election.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
200
Reagan’s economic policy, most commonly known as Reaganomics, is also known as
What is supply side/trickle down economics?
200
The objective of “Operation Desert Storm” during the Gulf War in 1991 was to do this.
What is liberate Kuwait from control of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army?
300
The United States' foreign policy to stop the spread of communism after WWII.
What is Containment?
300
As a result of this, the Soviets removed their nuclear missiles from Cuba.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
What did President Carter believe was the most important domestic problem faced by the U.S?
What is The Energy Crisis (dependency on foreign oil)
300
President Reagan’s defense against nuclear attack was nicknamed this.
What is Star Wars?
300
In the 1990’s, the concept of free trade and globalization was represented by this.
What is NAFTA?
400
]The first “Hot War or active war” of the Cold War Era which took place in the 1950’s occurred in this country.
What is Korea?
400
The event which led to the Space Race and directly affected the American Education system was....
What is Sputnik?
400
The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt worked out by Jimmy Carter.
What are the Camp David Accords?
400
This event damaged the reputation of Ronald Reagan and saw several advisors charged with crimes or even go to jail.
What is The Iran-Contra Scandal?
400
Bill Clinton (elected in 1992) became the second president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House for these crimes.
What are perjury and obstruction of justice?
500
This program saw the United States give 13 billion dollars to help rebuild Western Europe after WW II was known as this.
What is Marshall Plan?
500
The willingness of the United States to go to the edge of war.
What is Brinkmanship?
500
President Nixon was trying to survive through the Watergate Scandal until this piece of “smoking gun” evidence was brought to the public’s attention.
What are the tape recordings from the Oval Office?
500
The first time in America that we start to view women as equals when this happened.
What is the appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court?
500
In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, attacks on the World Trade Center (1993), American embassies in Africa, and the bombing of the USS Cole are seen as examples of the rise of
this organization.