These are the dates (by year) that the Cold War began and ended (according to most historians).
What are 1945-1991?
100
This U. S. President sent more troops to Vietnam than any of his fellow presidents (hint: we had 4 different Presidents leading up to and during the Vietnam war - Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon)
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
This was the number of days that U. S. hostages were kept during the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979-1980.
What is 444?
100
This minority was blamed for the AIDS epidemic which was commonly thought to only circulate among its members.
What are homosexual/gay men?
100
This was the actual charge against Bill Clinton that resulted in his impeachment hearings.
What is perjury?
200
The United States wanted to keep European countries from turning to communist Soviet Union for help so congress approved providing $13 billion in aid to Europe with this plan.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This was the name of the Cuban president we wanted to overthrow with the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who was Fidel Castro?
200
This was the only U. S. President to ever serve having not won a general (nationwide) election.
Who was Gerald Ford?
200
This was one of Ronald Reagan's nicknames because of his ability to win over people with his charisma and gift fro public speaking (and acting).
What is the 'Great Communicator?'
200
This state's 33 electoral votes, decided by less than 500 votes out of 6 million, determined the outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election.
What is Florida?
300
Created in 1949 as a response to the threat of the Soviet Union, the acronym NATO stands for this.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
300
This 1954 Supreme Court case said that the country had to “desegregate with all deliberate speed,” overturning the 1896 case that had said “separate but equal” did not violate a person’s Constitutional rights.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
Nixon's policy of detente, or 'relaxing of tensions' applied primarily to this country.
What is China?
300
This was the name of the first women appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
300
The election of 1992 is memorable in part because it included one of the most successful Third-Party candidates in U. S. History - this was his name.
Who is Ross Perot?
400
This Commander of UN Forces in Korea was removed from his command when he publicly disagreed with President Truman on the way he was running the war.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
400
This was the name of the report that reveals the government’s findings about the investigation into the JFK assassination - named for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who oversaw the report.
What is the Warren Commission?
400
This is the name of the first reported from the Washington Post who first broke the story of the Watergate Scandal.
(Daily Double)
Who was Bob Woodward?
400
Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev created these two policies, meaning 'openness' and 'restructuring' near the end of the Cold War era - precipitating the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What are 'glasnost' and 'perestroika'?
400
Operation Desert Storm, known at the time as the 'Gulf War,' now known as the First Iraq War, was launched when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded this small but oil-rich country.
What is Kuwait?
500
Known as 'Moscow Maggie' by her detractors, this Senator made a 'Declaration of Conscience' again her fellow Senator, Joseph McCarthy, who started the Second Red Scare.
(Daily Double)
Who was Margaret Chase Smith?
500
Four unarmed university students were killed by National Guard soldiers during a Vietnam War protest at this State college.
What is Kent State, in Ohio?
500
This was the name of the Iranian religious leader who lead the Islamic Revolution in that country and approved of the hostage taking at the U. S. Embassy.
Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
500
'Voo-Doo' economics, 'Trickle-down' and 'Reaganomics' were derogatory terms for this economic theory of Ronald Reagan that gave large tax breaks to the wealthy.
What are Supply-Side economics?
500
The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 precipitated the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and two (kinda) wars in Afghanistan (yes) and Iraq (not really) and also lead to the creation of this congressional Act that allows the U. S. government to spy on citizens without their consent.