40's, 50's, 60's
What event would pull the United States into World War II?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Which president was assassinated in 1963, being burned into the memory of Americans?
John F. Kennedy
What was the scandal that consumed Richard Nixon’s presidency?
Watergate
What president is credited with ending the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan
Who was the president who died in December 2024?
Jimmy Carter
What event saw the United States and the Soviet Union become enemies?
Cold War
Which important Civil Rights leader was assassinated in Tennessee in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the fate of Richard Nixon after it was revealed he was a ringleader in a major scandal?
He would resign
What came down in 1989, marking the physical end of the Cold War?
Berlin Wall
What modern presidents are father and son?
George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
What did the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education do?
Segregation in schools
What war ended in 1975?
Vietnam War
What country did the United States begin to have issues with beginning in the 1970s?
What city was bombed in an act of domestic terrorism?
Oklahoma City
Name all the assassinated presidents.
Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy
Which city in Germany was split between the United States and the Soviet Union?
Berlin
In Vietnam, who did the United States side with?
South Vietnam
Who replaced Richard Nixon when his presidency ended?
Gerald Ford
What was the war that was fought with Iraq over their invasion of Kuwait?
Persian Gulf War
Who was the woman Bill Clinton would have an affair with?
What was the name of the failed invasion that saw the United States train Cuban exiles to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
What major Civil Rights law was passed in 1964?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What two countries did Jimmy Carter mediate for during the Camp David Accords meetings?
Israel and Egypt
Who was the leader of Iraq during their invasion of Kuwait?
Saddam Hussein
Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump