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Key Events in 20th Century US History

Explore the significant events that shaped US history from the 1960s to the 2000s, including the New Frontier, Watergate, Iranian Revolution, Reagan era, Clinton impeachment, and 9/11.

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Key Events in 20th Century US History

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  1. 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 Next Round

  2. This was John F. Kennedy’s legislative agenda

  3. New Frontier

  4. This Kennedy program sent American volunteers to developing countries to help build schools, clinics, and help farmers

  5. The Peace Corps

  6. In this 1961 incident, Kennedy backed a CIA-trained and equipped army hoping to overthrow Castro

  7. The Bay of Pigs

  8. President Lyndon Johnson’s domestic legislative agenda was called this

  9. The Great Society

  10. President Johnson wanted to improve education by helping preschoolers in this program

  11. Project Headstart

  12. This scandal brought down the Nixon administration

  13. Watergate

  14. The most important evidence in the Watergate investigation were these

  15. Audio tapes

  16. Nixon hoped to lessen tensions between the US, the USSR, and Communist China called this

  17. Detente A French term meaning “lessening of tensions.”

  18. The combination of rising inflation and economic stagnation that characterized the US economy in the 1970s

  19. Stagflation

  20. OPEC placed an oil embargo on the US for this reason

  21. The US supported Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War Most oil-producing countries belonging to OPEC at the time were Muslim

  22. Reagan supplied arms to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to fight them

  23. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan The Soviet invasion lasted from 1979 - 1989

  24. Reagan supported this group opposing the Communist Sandinista government in Nicaragua

  25. The Contras

  26. This was the Iran-Contra Affair

  27. Colonel Oliver North funneled money obtained from the sale of spare parts to Iran to support the anti-Communist Contras Iran was involved in a ferocious war with Iraq from 1980 – 1988. They had many US weapons such as tanks and planes that were bought by the Shah before the Iranian Revolution but did not now work. They needed to fix them. The Reagan administration was forbidden by Congress to fund the Contras. So, people within the Reagan administration sold spare parts to Iran and illegally used some of that money to back the Contras. Congress tried to implicate Reagan himself in the plot but they could not find any hard evidence. Because of this, Reagan got the nickname of the “Teflon President” because nothing stuck to him.

  28. President Reagan appointed this first woman to the Supreme Court

  29. Sandra Day O’Connor

  30. Reagan’s proposal for this controversial space-based anti-missile program broke the economic back of the USSR

  31. Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars”

  32. The Republican Party gained control of the House of Representatives in the 1990s based on this set of legislative promises

  33. The Contract with America

  34. President Clinton was impeached on these two charges

  35. Perjury (lying under oath in a court proceeding) and obstruction of justice The lie he told the court was that he “did not have sex with that woman” (Monica Lewinsky)

  36. President Clinton used US forces to intervene in these two world locations

  37. Haiti and Bosnia/Kosovo The US intervened in Haiti in 1994-1995 when it became unstable after they overthrew their president The US and NATO intervened in Bosnia and Kosovo in 1992-1993 during the Yugoslavian Civil War to protect Muslims who were being killed (ethnic cleansing). We still maintain peacekeepers there today

  38. President Clinton was able to broker an agreement between these two men in which the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist and the PLO’s right to represent the Palestinian people

  39. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat

  40. This agreement formed a free trade bloc between the US, Canada, and Mexico

  41. North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA

  42. The winner of the Election of 2000 hinged upon a vote recount in this state

  43. Florida Inspecting the ballot’s chads

  44. This terrorist group was responsible for the 9-11 attacks on the United States

  45. Al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden

  46. This law was passed in response to 9-11and allowed secret searches, wire-taps, and other information gathering

  47. The Patriot Act

  48. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was due in great part to the belief by much of the world that Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, had these

  49. Weapons of Mass Destruction

  50. The Daily Double

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