Cold War
This was the common term for the western boundary of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War.
What was the Iron Curtain?
This was the name of President Kennedy's 1960 election platform.
What was the New Frontier?
This 1968 North Vietnamese & Vietcong campaign turned American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
What was the Tet Offensive?
This combination of high unemployment and high inflation characterized the 1970s.
What was stagflation?
This secretive foreign policy scandal negatively affected the Reagan administration.
What was Iran-Contra?
This American foreign aid plan rebuilt Western Europe after World War II.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This was the controversial report on the Kennedy assassination.
What was the Warren Report?
The 1968 ____________ saw violent clashes between Chicago police and antiwar protestors.
What was the Democratic National Convention?
The scandal resulting from the failed burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters led to the end of Richard Nixon's presidency.
What was the Watergate scandal?
The Senate's rejection of this Supreme Court nominee led to later Republican efforts to name conservatives to the federal judiciary.
Who was Robert Bork?
This military alliance between the U.S. and Western Europe maintained regional security during and after the Cold War.
What is NATO?
This was the name for President Johnson's social welfare policies.
What was the Great Society?
This 1970 antiwar protest led to the deaths of four student bystanders at the hands of the Ohio National Guard.
What was the Kent State shootings?
The Carter administration is sometimes remembered as the _______________.
What was the "Malaise Era"?
This incident marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
What was the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
The _____________ was the first major conflict involving the U.S. during the Cold War.
What was the Korean War?
The 1964 candidacy of ___________ failed due to fears of warmongering but later influenced Ronald Reagan's policies.
Who was Barry Goldwater?
The 1968 presidential candidacy of ____________ led to the Republican Party's Southern Strategy to capture the conservative vote.
Who was George Wallace?
This crisis contributed to Jimmy Carter's defeat in the 1980 presidential election.
What was the Iran Hostage crisis?
The 1990 invasion by Iraq of this country led to the Persian Gulf War.
What is Kuwait?
The ____________ led to persecution of Americans suspected of Communist sympathies?
What was the Second Red Scare?
This NASA program made the Moon landing possible.
What was the Apollo program?
The __________ marked the end of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What were the Paris Peace Accords?
This was the nickname for the supply-side economic plan implemented by the Reagan administration.
What was "Reaganomics"?
The 1992 recession led to the election of this Democratic candidate.
Who is Bill Clinton?