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100

President ______________ led the United States through the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Kennedy

100

Which president resigned due to Watergate.

Nixon

100

Which country did President George H.W. Bush help in the Persian Gulf War?

Kuwait (against Iraq)

100

According to the 26th Amendment the voting age is....

18

200
President ____________ established the Department of Education (1979). 

Carter

200

In 1981 President Reagan nominated _____________________ as the first woman justice of the Supreme Court. 

Sandra Day O'Connor

200

In 1961 the Berlin Wall was built. Who was the American president at the time?

Kennedy (1961-1963). 

200

T/F The U.S. has recently achieved a balanced budget and has begun to bring down our national debt

False - it is skyrocketing


https://www.usdebtclock.org/

300

In 1995 the Murrah Federal Building was attacked by a domestic terrorist (Timothy McVeigh). Who was president at the time?

Bill Clinton

300
The U.S. sent Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969. Who was president at the time?

Nixon (1969-1974)

300

During the Cold War, President Reagan's space missile program was called ________ Wars. 

Star

300

Malcolm X was a leader of what movement within the United States? 

Civil Rights

400

President Johnson was elected in 1964. What was the name of his domestic program? 

Great Society

400

President _________was president during the Iran-Contra affair (mid 1980's).

Reagan

400

What was the name of the terrorist organization that led the attacks against the U.S. on 9/11/01

Al Qaeda 

400

Roe v. Wade was a 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. This has been a debated topic since then. 

T/F

True 

500

Nixon is known for New Federalism. What is that?

A revision of the relationship of federal/state powers with more powers being given back to the states. 
500

Who does "Don't Ask, Don't tell" refer to. Who was president at the time. 

Refers to allowing gay people into the military. President Clinton

500

President ___________ sent military advisors to Vietnam. President Johnson sent troops into active combat and approved bombing campaigns. President ____________ led the U.S. out of the Vietnam War. 

Kennedy,

Nixon

500

Martin Luther King Jr. believed in peaceful/non-violent resistance. How were other Civil Right groups (Black Panthers) and leaders (Malcolm X) different?

Believed in the use of violence to achieve their goal.