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This senator led a campaign to find Communists in America.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
This attempted overthrow of the Cuban government failed in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
100

1. NASA Astronauts successfully recovered from this disastrous 1970 mission.

What is Apollo 13?
100

The 1980 eruption of this volcano was the worst volcanic disaster in US history.

What is Mount Saint Helens?
100
This space telescope continues to reveal new secrets about our universe.
What is the Hubble?
200
This war (or police action) started in 1950 to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is the Korean War?
200

This program, begun in 1961, attempts to resolve the problem of the low numbers of minorities in government-funded jobs.

What is Affirmative Action?

200

Students protesting at this Ohio university were shot by the National Guard in 1970.

What is Kent State?
200

This fatal disease is spread primarily through sexual contact, shared needles, or blood transfusions.

What is AIDS?
200
This war, started in 19991, aimed to protect Kuwait from invasion by Iraq.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
300
This 1953 play by Arthur Miller was meant to expose the Red Scare of the 1950s.
What is The Crucible?
300
This astronaut was the first US citizen to orbit the planet.
Who is John Glenn?
300

This CIA analyst revealed the executive branch and the military had lied to the legislative branch and the public about the Vietnam War in the so-called Pentagon Papers.

Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
300
In 1986, this spacecraft exploded during liftoff, killing all passengers.
What is Space Shuttle Challenger?
300
The acquittal of the police officers who beat this Los Angeles citizen led to riots in 1992.
Who is Rodney King?
400
This Supreme Court Case determined that school segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
This 1962 event is the closes the world has come to a nuclear war (as far as we know). 
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
This 1973 Supreme Court case defined a state's ability to regulate abortions.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400

This term refers to the economic policy that the economy is best improved by reducing government spending, taxes, and regulation and supporting the growth of large corporations.

What is Reaganomics?
400
This football star was acquitted of killing his girlfriend in 1995.
Who is OJ Simpson?
500
This woman decided to refuse to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
500
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
500

President Nixon was forced to resign when this 1974 scandal became public.

What is Watergate?
500

This term refers to October 19, 1987, when stock markets around the world crashed.

What is Black Monday?
500
Dolly the Sheep owes her existence to this scientific method.
What is cloning?