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The Sixties
The Vietnam War
America's Problems in the Middle East
The Seventies
The Eighties
100
President who took office in 1961
Who was John F. Kennedy?
100
North Vietnamese Communists
Who were the Viet Cong?
100
Holy city captured by Israel in the 1967 war
What was Jerusalem?
100
Group of people granted the vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment
What were 18-year-olds?
100
Man elected President of the United States in 1980
Who was Ronald Reagan?
200
First man to walk on the moon
Who was Neil Armstrong?
200
President of United States when it pulled out of Vietnam
Who was Richard Nixon?
200
He was President of the United States during the Gulf War
Who was George H.W. Bush?
200
The Supreme Court decision that said a state may not prevent an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy
What was Roe v. Wade?
200
President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev agreed to dismantle all of these with a 300- to 3,400-mile range
What were missiles?
300
Volunteer organization established by President Kennedy to help poorer nations
What was the Peace Corps?
300
Parallel at which Vietnam was divided in 1954, giving the communists control of North Vietnam
What was the 17th parallel?
300
Guerilla organization working for the freedom of Palestine
What is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)?
300
First vice president appointed under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment
Who was Gerald Ford?
300
Proposed constitutional amendment finally defeated after 10 years of effort
What was the Equal Rights Amendment?
400
Only place the Soviet Union and United States agreed nuclear weapons could be tested
What was underground?
400
Capital city of South Vietnam
What was Saigon?
400
An international crisis was sparked when Iraq invaded this nation in 1990
What was Kuwait?
400
This President is credited with opening China in 1972
Who was Richard Nixon?
400
This scandal plagued the Reagan and Bush presidencies
What was the Iran-Contra affair?
500
President Johnson's dream of new government programs to help citizens
What was the Great Society?
500
Classified documents on U.S. involvement in Vietnam published by the New York Times
What were the Pentagon Papers?
500
Iranian militants seized this U.S. site and took Americans hostage
What was the U.S. embassy?
500
International oil cartel that raised the price of oil in the 1970s
What was OPEC (Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries)
500
First woman nominated to run for vice president of the United States
Who was Geraldine Ferraro?