Politics
What scandal forced President Nixon to resign in 1974?
Watergate
What was the name of the wall that divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989?
The Berlin Wall
What decade is famous for neon colors, leg warmers, big hair, and disco fashion?
The 1980s
What economic policy did Ronald Reagan promote that involved tax cuts and reduced government spending?
Reaganomics
What tragic event occurred on January 28, 1986, killing seven astronauts and shocking the nation?
The Challenger
Where was the break-in that started the Watergate scandal?
The Democratic National Committee Headquarters
Mikhail Gorbachev was the President of what nation?
Soviet Union
What cable channel was launched dedicated to broadcasting music videos?
MTV
Reaganomics believed that if wealthy people and corporations paid fewer taxes, this would happen to the economy.
The economy would grow
In what year did the Soviet Union officially collapse and dissolve, ending the Cold War?
1991
What is the acronym for the group that orchestrated the Watergate scandal?
CREEP
Name the two opposing sides during the Cold War: the ___ Bloc and the ___ Bloc.
What video game system did Nintendo release in 1996 after the Super Nintendo?
Nintendo 64
Name one way Reagan reduced the size of government during his presidency.
Cut social programs, reduced regulations, decreased government spending
Name the 1991 conflict in the Middle East where the US led a coalition against Iraq.
The Persian Gulf War
What did Nixon claim about his involvement in Watergate with the phrase "I am not a ___"?
Crook
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, officially marking the beginning of the end of the Cold War?
1989
This 1985 John Hughes film follows five high school students from different cliques who spend Saturday detention together.
The Breakfast Club
What did supporters of Reaganomics call the theory that wealth would flow down from the rich to workers and the poor?
Trickle-down economics
In the Iran-Contra affair, who was the US selling arms to?
Iran
Who became president after Nixon resigned?
Gerald Ford
What was the Berlin Wall a symbol of?
Cold War division
What company produced a personal computer in 1984 with a revolutionary graphical user interface and a mouse?
Apple
Critics of Reaganomics argued that tax cuts for the wealthy increased this economic problem for middle and lower-class Americans.
Income inequality/ the wealth gap
What scandal did President Bill Clinton get into?
Lewinsky scandal (or Monica Lewinsky scandal)