War! What Is It Good For?
So Scandalous
It's A Date!
Name That Pres!
Words To Live By (or not)
100
Name that war that started in 2001.

War on Terror

100

Why is Nixon's scandal known as Watergate?

It's the name of the hotel where it happened.

100

What is the entire date of the terror attack by Al Qaeda?

September 11, 2001

100

Trickle Down Economics

Iran Contra

Conservative Revolution

Ronald Reagan

100

The increase in the birth population shortly after WWII

The Baby Boom

200

Who was the president during the Persian Gulf War?

George HW Bush

200

What is the name of a senator's scandal where many government officials were accused of being communists?

McCarthyism

200

December 7, 1941

Bombing of Pearl  Harbor
200

Camp David Peace Accors

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Oil Crisis

Jimmy Carter

200

If one country falls to communism, another nearby will

Domino Theory

300

What battle was the turning point in the Pacific War of WWII?

Midway

300

In what scandal did Reagan get caught giving weapons to terrorists in exchange for hostages?

Iran Contra Affair

300

What important event (that we learned about) happened in 1957?

USSR launched Sputnik

300

Cuban Missile Crisis

Bay of Pigs Invasion

New Frontier

John F Kennedy

300

Restriction by a government on trade with a foreign country

Embargo

400

Name ONE strategy that US had during the Vietnam war.

Body Counts, Napalm, Agent Orange, Search and Destroy Missions

400

What became scandalous about the draft lottery?

It was called racist for allowing deferments and disproportionately drafting you African American men.

400

When was Martin Luther King, Jr assassination?

1968

400
Escalation of Vietnam

Great Society

Headstart

Lyndon B Johnson

400

Taking away the ability to vote from a person or group of people

Disenfranchisement

500

What term was Nixon's plan to slowly hand South Vietnam back to the Vietnamese?

Vietnamization

500

What were the charges against Clinton in his impeachment? (2)

Perjury and obstruction of justice

500

What are the years of World War II?

1939-1945

500

Interstate Highway System

Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe

Sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas

Dwight D Eisenhower

500

Policy in education admissions or job hiring that gives special consideration to disadvantaged/minority groups

Affirmative Action

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