WWII
This is the event that caused the US to join WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
These two countries were locked in an ideological battle during the Cold War.
What is the United States and Soviet Union?
The "I Have a Dream" speech was given by this Civil Rights Leader.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This is the only President in US history to resign the office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
In the movie "Forrest Gump", Forrest meets these 3 presidents.
Who are Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon?
These 4 countries were know as the Allied powers.
What are the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France?
This proxy war lasted 20 years and was the first time the United States had lost a war in the 20th Century.
What is the Vietnam War?
This high school in Little Rock, Arkansas was the site of an integration crisis that required President Eisenhower to send in the national guard to ensure African American students could attend the school.
What is Central High School?
This Persian Gulf War took place under this President.
Who is George H.W. Bush?
This "forgotten war" included the Chosin Reservoir campaign and the Inchon landing.
What is the Korean War?
These 3 countries were known as the Axis powers.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The acronym M.A.D. stands for this Cold War concept.
What is "Mutually Assured Destruction?"
This city in Alabama was the location of an 13 month bus boycott.
What is Montgomery?
This President was in office when the September 11th terrorist attacks happened.
Who is George W. Bush?
This President is the 'greenest President'.
This is the name given to the genocide of the Jewish people during WWII.
This event is the closest the two Cold War superpowers ever came to armed conflict.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Civil Rights leader gave a speech called "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Who is Malcolm X?
This President is widely considered to be the last Cold War President.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
These are the two cities the United States used atomic weapons on to end WWII.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This group of Americans was interned during WWII at camps across the country.
Who are Japanese Americans?
The United States and Soviet Union divided these two places in half at the end of WWII, setting up conflicts during the Cold War.
What is Berlin and Korea?
Dr. King was assassinated while in Tennessee for this strike.
What is the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike?
This President was impeached for lying under oath about an extra-marital affair.
Who is Bill Clinton?
Bert the Turtle taught kids to do this in the event of a Nuclear attack.
What is "Duck and Cover"