Revolutionary War
Mexican American War
Civil War
WW1
WW2
Korean War
Vietnam War
100
This war is one of the root causes of the American Revolution, as its aftermath caused a lot of Great Brittan's hostile tax acts against the American Colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
The concept that Americans had a moral and spiritual obligations to spread their nation from the Atlantic ocean's coast, to the Pacific Oceans coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The NUMBER ONE cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100
The rise of wartime romanticism, new and improved weaponry, and the stockpiling of wartime products can be summarized in this word, which is one of the main causes of ww1.
What is Militarism.
100
Two famous fascist dictators, whose rise to power was a major part of the origins of WW2.
Who were Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler?
100
The Longitude line that was arbitrarily chosen to separate Korea between the Soviet backed North Korea and the American backed South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
The original European colonizers of Vietnam.
Who are the French?
200
This was Parliament's first attempt to end Salutary Neglect. The act actually cut the tax rate on some American imports, but increased the actual collection of tax money.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
This soon to be sovereign nation declared its independence from Mexico in 1835, resulting in a short but bloody war. This war contained the battle of the Alamo.
What is the Territory of Texas?
200
This political deal, later declared unconstitutional, entered an new state to the union, but banned slavery from expanding any further into the northern territories.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
200
The Triple Entente and Triple Alliance are examples of this term, a word for a military pact between nations, and another main cause of WW1.
What are Secret Alliances?
200
The widely hated document that the rise of German militarism, expansionism, Anti-Semitism, and general desire for revenge.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
200
The Two Communist leaders who support Kim Il-Sung's attempt to "liberate" South Korea.
Who are Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Zedong?
300
Colonists resorted to petitioning, rioting, arson, and violence to attempt to nullify this act, which required all official paper documents to bear a mark designed to raise revenue for the crown.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
The reason why the annexation of the neutral Republic of Texas lead the United states into a war with Mexico.
What are disputed territorial boundaries?
300
This famous slave's uprising lead to around sixty to seventy slaves rising up against their white owners and killing them. This rebellion stuck fear into the hearts of southern slave owners, and hundreds died because of the uprising.
Who is Nat Turner?
300
The process by which many powerful nation and empires sought to expand their power via land conquest and colonization via forceful cohabitation, During the WW1 era.
What is Imperialism?
300
The MAIN reason that Japan aligned itself with the other fascist leaders in Europe.
What is Imperialism/Empire Building
300
George F. Kennan, a United States Foreign Service Officer, coined this term to define the policy of economic and military action to stop the spread of communism.
What is Containment?
400
THREE acts that were designed to assert British authority over the American Colonists, in order to regain control of the taxation situation in America.
What are the Declaratory, Townshend, and Intolerable acts?
400
This former U.S. General had this to say about the Mexican American War.
"For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."
Who is President Ulysses S. Grant?
400
The state that entered the union due to The Compromise of 1850, which strengthened the fugitive slave law and voided the Missouri Compromise.
What is California?
400
This patriotic term is an extreme form of pride in your country, where a citizen identifies with the needs and wants of their country, even if these wants come at the expense of others.
What is Nationalism?
400
The attack, perpetuated by the Japanese, that drew the United States into WW2.
What was the Pearl Harbor attack?
400
Under the eye of this international peace keeping organization, military assistance was given to the quickly overrun South Korean army.
What is the U.N.?
500
Convened in Philadelphia, this meeting of Revolutionary Leaders from every colony (excluding Georgia) petitioned the crown for the same rights as all other English Citizens. The congress called for a boycott if their terms were not met.
What was the First Continental Congress?
500
This war hero would go on to become President of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War
Who is President Zachary Taylor?
500
The man who's election directly lead the succession of the Union's southern slave owning states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
The popular member of Austro-Hungarian nobility, whose assassination was the spark that lead to WW1 and the deaths of around 20 million people worldwide.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
The ineffective military strategy of giving up small losses in ground for the promise of a caesurae of future hostilities.
What is Appeasement?
500
The area between current day North and south Korea, watched by armed guards and landmines.
What is the DMZ?