Cold War
Vietnam War
Presidents Trivia
60's
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100

This foreign policy was used by the United States, specifically the Truman presidency, and resulted in a series of proxy wars.

What is Containment?

100

This offensive by the Viet Cong is considered the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War.

What is the Tet Offensive?

100

This program was introduced by President LBJ and was considered similar to the administration of FDR.

What is the Great Society?

100

This movement was seen as one of the most impactful social movements of the 20th century and made immense progress for African Americans.

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

100

This major political scandal under the Nixon administration led to the resignation of Nixon.

What is the Watergate Scandal?

200

This radical xenophobia was introduced by a US Senator and exacerbated the Red Scare in the 1950s.

What is McCarthyism?

200

These classified documents, exposed by the New York Times, detailed troop casualties and the true state of the war. It also led to further distrust in the government under the Nixon Administration

What is the Pentagon Papers?

200

This president established the interstate highway system.

Who is Eisenhower?

200

This iconic music festival took place in August 1969 and is often associated with the counterculture movement of the 1960s.

What is Woodstock?

200

This foreign disaster was considered one of the biggest failures of the Carter administration, and involved an infamous failed attempt at a resolution.

What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?

300

During this Proxy war, a trigger happy general was dismissed from duty.

What is the Korean War?

300

Instead of conventional bombing, the United States often used this to clear compounds and kill the Viet Cong.



What is Napalm?

300

This person famously assassinated JFK.

Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?

300

This essay, which is considered one of the best argumentative pieces of all time, poses the moral issue of breaking an unjust law.

What is A Letter From Birmingham Jail?

300

The only president to never be elected anywhere in the Executive Branch.

Who is President Gerald Ford?

400

This program was initiated by the US after WWII and was designed to help Western Europe’s Economic recovery, in spite of the Soviet Union.



What is the Marshall Plan?

400

This peace agreement was signed in 1973 to end the Vietnam War.

What is the Paris Peace Accords?

400

This amendment, passed by President LBJ as apart of The Great Society, abolished poll tax.

What is the 24th Amendment?

400

The operation that involved the failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles ordered by President JFK.

What is the Bay of Pigs?

400

A PR campaign by Ford to fight against stagflation.

What is the WIN campaign?

500

Codenamed “Operation Quarantine,” this was the primary response to the Cuban Missile Crisis by the United States.

What is the blockade of Cuba?

500

First Lieutenant William L. “Rusty” Calley, Jr., and his platoon murdered at least 300 Vietnamese civilians during this infamous event.


What is the My Lai Massacre?

500

This Committee declared that the shooter who killed JFK acted alone.

What is the Warren Commission?

500

After RFK’s assassination, this man won the democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election. His stance on the Vietnam war causing the DNC riots.

Who is Hubert Humphrey?

500

Prior to the Watergate Scandal, this other Scandal caused distrust in the Nixon administration when uncovered. This Scandal is also preventable by the War Powers Act. 

What is Nixon's Secret Invasion of Cambodia?