Modern History
Modern History
Modern History
Modern History
Modern History
100
When Americans lose jobs because those jobs are sent overseas to countries that have no minimum wage.
What is off-shoring
100
_____________ policy takes place when Congress changes the tax rate.
What is fiscal?
100
Who was president when the Cold War ended in 1989?
Who was George H W Bush?
100
We tried to contain communism there, but failed?
What is Vietnam?
100
He lied and accused Americans of being communist when they weren't. He ruined many lives during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Who is he?
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
200
_______________ policy takes place when prime interest rates are changed by the federal reserve bank.
What is monetary?
200
He created the vaccination for polio.
Who is Jonas Salk?
200
Who is considered to be the US President that caused the demise of of the USSR and the end of the Cold War?
Who was Ronald Reagan?
200
What does the peace symbol look like?
What is ?
200
What is the name of our first ever peacetime alliance, created to keep western Europe from being attacked by communists.
What is NATO?
300
Who said, "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
Clinton signed this act which lowered tariffs between the US, Canada and Mexico (North America).
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
300
Who was Reagan's nemesis during the Cold War? He actually brought economic and social changes to his country?
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
A lot of peace signs and symbols were used at Anti-War protests during the Vietnam War. Where were most of these protests held?
What were college campuses?
300
The Truman Doctrine was all about containing ____________________.
What is communism?
400
What did Neil Armstrong say when he put his feet on the moon's surface?
What is "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
400
Women ended up in combat during what brief war in 1991.
What was the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
400
In the 1990's Clinton finally gave what country full diplomatic relations (20 years after we ended our war there).
What is Vietnam?
400
Kennedy's failed attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba was known as the ____________________.
What is Bay of Pigs "invasion"?
400
Name the programs where we gave over 15 billion dollars in aid to keep western Europe from becoming communists after World War II.
What was the Marshall Plan?
500
Which president was responsible for the lunar landing or moon program?
Who was Kennedy?
500
To combat terrorism, Congress passed what Act in 2002 that allows the government to possibly look into our internet and cell phone activity.
What is the Patriot Act?
500
What place brought an end to Nixon's presidency.
What was the Watergate Hotel?
500
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy kept the USSR from putting nuclear missiles in Cuba by ___________ Cuban waterways.
What is blockading (using the US Navy)?
500
To save gas and other supplies for those mean fighting in World War II, Americans were forced to _________- basic materials like gas, meat and rubber.
What is ration?
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