Post War Presidents
WATERGATE
Who is Nixon?
JFK had a fiasco here
Where is Cuba or the Bay of Pigs?
The Senator known for the Red Scare in the 1950's
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This law banned discrimination and segregation in all public places (must give the correct year)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The name of Mr. Jacobs' oldest son's college
What is Dartmouth?
Trickle Down Economics
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Eisenhower threatened to use nuclear weapons again here in order to bring peace
What is Korea?
The name of the youth movement that bucked up against traditional values in the 1960s
What is the Counterculture?
Respected American veterans by providing money for college and home loans
What is the GI Bill?
This is the money, investments. properties, and overall wealth that a college has to use for research and scholarships; Harvard has the highest numbers.
What is an endowment?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who is LBJ?
Many historians believe this is the only war the U.S outright lost...
What is Vietnam?
SNCC
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
Ruled that public schools must integrate with deliberate speed
What is the Brown Decision?
The Caribbean nation Mr. Jacobs traveled to in college where he met the First Woman ever elected to the Senate in that country
What is the Bahamas?
9/11
Who is George W. Bush?
The first human being to orbit the Earth
Who is Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin?
SCLC
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Established a woman's right to have an abortion in 1973 and was overturned in 2022
What is Roe v. Wade?
He said..."Friend...good. Smoke....goooood."
Who is Frankenstein the Monster?
NAFTA and the restoration of our relationship with Vietnam
Who is Bill Clinton?
The name of the U.S. foreign policy doctrine to CONTAIN Communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Economic term for depressed economy, low wages, and high prices
What is STAGFLATION?
The number of Amendments included in the Bill of Rights
What is 10?
The name of any Charlie Chaplin movie we mentioned the first week of school...
What are City Lights, The Great Dictator, The Kid, or The Gold Rush?