Presidents
Which president succeeded JFK and was known for his push for more involvement in Vietnam?
Lyndon B Johnson
What scandal involved a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters?
Watergate
What was the primary ideological conflict during the Cold War?
communism v. capitalism
This war was a loss for America and was unpopular at the time.
Vietnam War
What movement aimed to end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States during the 1960s?
Civil Rights Movement
Which president is famously known for being a peanut farmer?
Jimmy Carter
Iran-Contra Affair
This theory says that if one nation falls to communism all other nations around them will eventually fall to communism.
Domino Theory
This war ended in a stalemate, an armistice declared, but there still is no formal peace between the nations.
Korean War
Which movement in the 1970s focused on women's rights and equality?
Women's Liberation or Feminist movement
Which president pushed for America to go to the moon?
JFK
This event in 1980 led to significant criticism of President Carter's handling of foreign affairs.
Iran Hostage Crisis
This event in 1962 brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This war involved the U.S. and NATO forces against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Afghanistan
What cultural movement in the 1960s promoted peace and love?
The Hippie Movement/ Counterculture
Which president was formerly a hollywood actor and now remembered for his economic policies?
Ronald Reagan
What is the name of the young woman working in the White House that Bill Clinton famously had an affair with?
Monica Lewinsky
Which alliance was formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
The US went to war claiming this country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq
Which Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional in 1954?
Brown v. Board of Education
Which president was never elected to the presidency or vice presidency?
Gerald Ford
This failed military operation aimed to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1961.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Which Soviet Union leader introduced policies like glasnost and perestroika, which eventually led to the fall of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
In the first Persian Gulf War Iraq invaded this country, who the US would defend.
Kuwait
What was the name of the 1963 protest where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
March on Washington