Presidents
Who was the only president to resign from office?
Richard Nixon
One of the decisions handed down by the liberal Supreme Court of the 1970s was Roe vs. Wade, which legalized what?
Abortion
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Who was the black minister active in the civil rights movement?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Which president's welfare program was called "New Frontier"?
JFK
Clarence Thomas
What is the system of producing and distributing goods?
Economy
Who was the first black major league baseball player?
Jackie Robinson
Who believed Communism should be stopped before it could attack and enslave a country?
Ronald Reagan
What was the name of President Johnson's social reform plan?
Great Society
What two events caused a slowdown in the space program?
Explosion of the Challenger and the Columbia
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
What is the name of the lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an act which led to a change in segregation laws?
Rosa Parks
Who strengthened the military alliance of NATO?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Reagan Revolution
First American to fly in space?
Alan Shepard
What two countries the the U.S. military attack terrorists in the "War on Terror"?
Afghanistan and Iraq
What act guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities?
1964 Civil Rights Act
Which president convinced the Soviet Union leader Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall and begin Perestroika?
Ronald Reagan
Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
John Glenn
Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was under the presidency of who?
George H.W. Bush
One of the greatest opera singers of all time?
Marian Anderson
Jimmy Carter
Who was the doctor who developed a vaccine for Polio?
Jonas Salk
What Islamic terrorist group was responsible for the attack on Sep. 11, 2001?
Al Qaeda