1940's
1950's
1960's
1970's
1980's
100
The turning point of WWII in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
100
The location of new homes built in the 1950's.
What is the suburbs?
100
Project Head Start, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), and the "War on Poverty".
What are programs in Johnson's Great Society?
100
The unconventional warfare used in Vietnam.
What is guerrilla warfare?
100
The biggest budget item during Reagan's Presidency.
What is the military?
200
Two policies that allowed the United States to provide weapons to certain countries during WWII.
What is "Cash and Carry" and the Lend-Lease Act?
200
The strategy to help to build the economies of struggling countries to curb the appeal of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
He was elected President in spite of his religion and his age.
Who is Kennedy?
200
Two countries that Nixon visited as evidence of his policy of detente.
What are China and the Soviet Union?
200
The first female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
300
The Axis Powers
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
300
The general who was fired for publicly disagreeing with Truman about the use of nuclear weapons against China.
Who is MacArthur?
300
The commission that said that Oswald acted alone.
What is the Warren Commission?
300
The Human Rights President.
Who was Carter?
300
Conservative Christians who founded a movement to take a more active role in government.
What is the Moral Majority?
400
They were able to get jobs in key industries that had been denied to them in the past.
Who are women and African-Americans?
400
An international peacekeeping organization designed to settle disputes without warfare.
What is the United Nations?
400
Kennedy's first major foreign policy blunder.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
400
It resulted in public cynicism about government.
What is: Pentagon Papers? MyLai Massacre? Watergate?
400
A plan that became known as "Star Wars".
What is Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (missile defense system)?
500
The court case that ruled that government has unusual power in wartime to protect national security.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
500
His downfall began when he accused the military of communism.
Who is McCarthy?
500
It led to the President sending troops to Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution?
500
The United States supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
What is the reason for the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973?
500
His foreign policy emphasized increasing trade with China.
Who is Clinton?
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