Who trusts the government?
In the early 1970s, Nixon escalated the Vietnam War by bombing this country without congressional approval.
What is Cambodia?
In 1975, all Americans left this city, finally ending US presence in Vietnam.
What is Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City?
This was Jimmy Carter's job before he got into politics.
What is a peanut farmer?
This is the name of the United States' first government, implemented during the revolutionary war.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
On this date, Ms. Schlesinger will turn 100 years old (God willing).
What is September 12, 2082?
This series of documents, published in The New York Times, revealed to Americans that the government had lied to them about the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon papers?
What is détente?
This was President Ford's most controversial act in office.
What is the pardon of Richard Nixon?
This general succeeded in leading the Army of the Potomac to victory after several failures, including George McClellan, who refused to take advantage of opportunities to defeat the enemy.
Who is General Grant?
In 2019, President Trump mistaken referred to this CEO as "Tim Apple."
Who is Apple CEO Tim Cook?
A shooting at this university on May 4, 1970 caused horror throughout the country.
What is Kent State?
The US-backed leader of this country was overthrown in 1979.
What is Iran?
This person served as Nixon's National Security Advisor AND Secretary of State.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
The Great Migration refers to the movement of this group of people, from where to where?
What are Black Americans moving from the South to the North?
This former Worcester Academy student hit his first homerun for the Chicago Cubs on March 29, 2025.
Who is Matt Shaw?
This is what historians call the night when an Attorney General, a Deputy Attorney General, and a special prosecutor were all fired in order to stop the Watergate investigation.
What is the Saturday night massacre?
This 1972 treaty between the US and USSR froze nuclear missiles and limited other kinds of missiles.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I).
This was the main political topic of Jimmy Carter's malaise speech.
What is energy?
This long-serving senator from Massachusetts was the brother of two politicians who were assassinated in the 1960s.
Who was Edward (Ted) Kennedy?
Ms. Schlesinger has a nephew named Noah; this is his middle name, the same as his great grandfather's (Ms. Schlesinger's paternal grandfather).
What is Leonard?
If Nixon had stayed in office, this is what he would have been impeached for. (Name one of the two charges)
What are obstruction of justice and abuse of power?
Nixon believed that the US had to adapt to a multipolar world, where these three countries/regions would also be powers.
What are China, Japan, and western Europe?
These two factors contributed to stagflation, the combination of high inflation and unemployment.
What are the oil shocks and high interest rates.
The Calvert family founded the colony of Maryland for this reason.
What is as a haven for English Catholics?
These two characters in The Lion King (a retelling of Hamlet) are stand-ins for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet's childhood friends.
Who are Timon and Pumbaa?