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100
The Soviet Union's version of Vietnam was fought here starting in 1979. It ended with the Soviets leaving the country but saw the growth of the Taliban as a result.
What is Afghanistan?
100
Title IX deals primarily with rights for this group of people.
What are women?
100
Basic economic philosophy of Reagan.
What is Reaganomics/Trickle-down economics/supply side economics?
100
This president was popular with the ladies, including Monica and Gennifer.
Who is Bill Clinton?
100
Executed leader of Iraq.
Who was Hussein?
200
It took Nixon, not Forest Gump, to go here but it did all start with Ping-Pong.
What is People's Republic of China?
200
This is the piece of governmental legislation that (kinda) forces you to take MCAS.
What is No Child Left Behind?
200
The free trade agreement that includes the United States.
What is NAFTA?
200
Actor and "great communicator" he spear-headed the emergence of the conservative movement in the early 1980s.
Who was Reagan?
200
Scandal that felled Nixon.
What was Watergate?
300
The US has gone to war in this country twice in my lifetime. Once to defend Kuwait, once to chase WMDs.
What is Iraq?
300
This act forces public buildings to provide equitable access for those with disabilities.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
He promised "No new taxes" but eventually did raise taxes.
Who was H.W. Bush (Sr.)?
300
Became the leaders of the USSR in 1985. He eventually established the policies of glasnost and perestroika before eventually resigning to cement the fall of communism.
Who was Gorbachev? (Gorby)
300
Court case that saw the US Supreme Court evaluate the legality of abortion in the US.
What is Roe v. Wade?
400
Carter's greatest foreign policy achievement saw peace between these two nations.
What Israel and Egypt?
400
Following the 1994 midterm elections, Congress sought this more conservative agenda.
What is the Contract with America?
400
Following WWII this was the new economic system that governed the world for 30 years. It featured an increased reliance on the gold system and saw a rise in the import of the dollar.
What is the Bretton Woods System?
400
First women on the Supreme Court (appointed by Reagan).
Who was O'Connor?
400
This minority group took over Alcatraz Island.
What is the American Indian Movement? (AIM)
500
Operation Just Cause toppled an increasing unfriendly regime in this country.
What is Panama?
500
According to Carter, America's problem in the late 1970s was this, not a Malaise as most historians call it.
What is a Crisis of Confidence?
500
It plagued Nixon and then Ford and Carter. It saw a lack of growth in the economy but also a rise in interest rates. Nixon weakened it through the famous "Nixon shock."
What is stagflation?
500
Nixon's Secretary of State. He won a Nobel Prize and was a practitioner of Realpolitik.
Who is Kissinger?
500
Shuttle that blew up carrying Christa McAuliffe.
What was Challenger?