The Cold War in 1940s and 1950s
This 1947 policy promised American support for nations resisting communist pressure, first in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine? (will also accept "containment")
This 1962 confrontation brought the United States and the Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This innovation, approved in 1960, gave many women greater control over family planning and helped fuel social change.
What is The Pill?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board?
This Great Society program provided health insurance for elderly Americans.
What is Medicare?
Name 2 songs by the K-Pop group Blackpink.
What are How You Like That, and ???
This senator became the face of anticommunist investigations and accusations during the early 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This act, passed in 1973 over Nixon’s veto, tried to limit presidential power to commit troops abroad, requiring congressional approval after 60 days.
What is the War Powers Act?
This 1960s student political movement rejected Cold War conformity and called for more activism and participatory democracy.
What is the New Left?
This 1955 to 1956 protest began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 1965 law ended the national origins quota system and reshaped immigration to the United States.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
These are the names of three movies that came out in 2026.
What are (???)
These two, rival military alliances linked the United States with Western European nations against Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe.
What is NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This resolution, passed in 1964, gave President Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1960s youth movement rejected traditional social norms and embraced experimentation, protest, and alternative lifestyles.
What is the Counterculture?
This protest ended with violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but it spread awareness of the need to secure voting rights for African Americans.
What is the Selma March?
This cabinet department, created in the late 1970s, reflected the growing federal concern with national energy policy.
What is the Department of Energy?
Tom Brady owns a part of this NFL team, and is probably telling them to draft a quarterback with the first overall pick in the 2026 Draft.
What is the Oakland Raiders?
This 1949 crisis led the United States to supply West Berlin by air after the Soviets blocked land access, preventing World War III.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This 1979 event in the Middle East badly damaged Carter politically and highlighted limits of U.S. power abroad.
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
This 1963 book by Betty Friedan challenged the expectation that women should find fulfillment only in domestic life.
What is the Feminist Mystique?
This more militant movement, associated with figures like Stokely Carmichael, emphasized racial pride and self-determination.
What is Black Power?
This 1962 book by Michael Harrington exposed persistent poverty in the United States and helped inspire Johnson’s antipoverty agenda.
What is "The Other America?"
These are three contemporary celebrities who's last name begins with M or V.
Who are ???
The Korean War resulted in a stalemate where the boundary between the communist and capitalist nations was at this latitude marker.
What is the 38th parallel?
This Cold War policy under Nixon sought to reduce tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is detente?
This feminist journalist and activist became one of the most recognizable public faces of the women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
Who is Gloria Steinem?
This policy, developed in the late 1960s and 1970s, sought to address past discrimination through proactive measures in education and employment.
What is affirmative action?
This anti-poverty program recruited volunteers to work in poor communities across the United States.
What is VISTA?
These are the four types of poker hands that can beat a straight (not counting "Royal Flush").
What are flush, full house, four of a kind, and straight flush?