Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beacher Stowe
This man was assassinated to begin WWI?
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
Who was the German dictator?
Hitler
Samuel Morse invented the _____ as a useful means of communicating quickly through wires. These "talking wires" were used as safety devices on railcars.
telegraph
Name two presidents that were assassinated
Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
This revolution toppled the Czar and took Russia out of WWI.
the Russian Revolution
What were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
what is the weapon used to do this
agent orange
What president is on the five dollar bill?
Abraham Lincoln
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
This tracked vehicle was first used during WWI.
tank
What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
This republican president was in office during the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed in this country.
Herbert C. Hoover
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
This organization was formed after the war to help prevent future world wars.
League of Nations
Who was the cruel dictator of the Soviet Union who changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse?
Joseph Stalin
Perfected by Joseph F. Gidden in 1874, it solved the problem of building fences on the treeless prairy for farmers. It will later be used as a means of security and many other means of fencing.
Barbed wire
This Republican president was the first and only president to resign from office on August 9, 1974.
Richard Nixon
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
The war officially ended on this day of this month in 1919.
Nov. 11th
Which country lost the most men out of the Allies
USSR (Soviet Union)
who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This Republican was the first president to receive the Nobel Peace Price in 1906
Theodore Roosevelt