Presidental
Challenge
POST-
WWII
Years, AGAIN
Grammar:
Word Jobs
Random
200


He decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki


Truman


200

The imaginary dividing line between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc in Europe


The Iron Curtain

200


Terrorist Attacks on September 11


2001


200


Looking under the table, the police discovered someone hiding. 


Object of Preposition


200


Name of the scandal that occurred during the Nixon presidency


Watergate 


400

He ended the Vietnam War


Nixon 


400

Senator whose “reign of terror” accused government officials of being allied with Communists

Joseph McCarthy


400

End of the Vietnam War


1975


400

Don’t tell lies when God says to speak the truth.


Direct Object


400

In the 1800s, it was “Unorganized Territory” 


Oklahoma


600

These two presidents were elected, then lost an election, then got re-elected, serving nonconsecutive terms


Cleveland and Trump


600


The plan to give $13 billion in aid to the West


The Marshall Plan


600

Fall of the Berlin Wall


1989


600

You can sing loudly, and we will clap to the beat.


Subject


600

He built the first telephone in the late 1800s


Alexander Graham Bell


800

He was President during the terrorist attacks of 9/11


George W. Bush


800

War from 1950-1953 aimed at stopping Communism


The Korean War


800

Wright Brothers and Other Inventors


1903


800

Isaac was the son of Abraham.


Linking Verb


800

The event in 1929 that triggered the Great Depression


The stock market crash


1000

The President of the southern states, called the Confederate States of America, that had seceded from the United States in 1861


Jefferson Davis

1000

Civil Defense film shown to school children during the Cold War 


“Duck and Cover”


1000

First man to walk on the moon


1969

1000

We gave you more than one chance in this game.


Indirect Object

1000

The first man the U.S. put into space


Alan Shepard

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