United States Government
Trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is Capitalism?
Age of Reason, an intellectual & philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th & 18th centuries.
What is the Enlightenment?
Great Britain, France, Russia (USSR) and eventually the USA during WWI & WWII.
Who were the Allies?
Lightening Warfare, Germany's way of concentrated attacks using luftwaffe bombers, artillery, tanks & soldiers.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The official beginning of WWII when Germany invaded Poland.
What is September 1, 1939?
The chief executive and representatives are democratically elected by the people, and the rules are set down in a written constitution.
What is a Constitutional Republic?
This document claimed that all men are born and remain equal.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The War to End All Wars. The Great War.
What is World War I?
Japanese suicide pilots that flew their planes into American war ships.
What is a Kamikaze?
"A date that will live in infamy." when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
(Daily Double) Prohibits government from depriving citizens of life, liberty and property without due process of law.
What is the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution?
He used Enlightenment ideas in writing the United States Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Germany, Austria-Hungary & the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Who were the Central Powers?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people of a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of total annihilation.
What is Genocide?
(Daily Double) V.E. Day (Victory in Europe).
What is May 8, 1945?
Protects the Right to Keep & Bear Arms.
Lasted from 1945 - 1989 between the USA and USSR.
What is the Cold War?
(Daily Double) The policy of the USA to stay out of WWI & WWII initially.
What is Isolationism?
Far Right totalitarian ultra-nationalism led by a dictator of forced suppression.
What is Fascism?
D-Day, Operation Overlord. The Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
What is June 6, 1944?
Protects Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly & Petition.
What is the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution?
(Daily Double) USA strategy of preventing communism from spreading during the Cold War?
What is Containment?
Hitler's reason given for territorial expansion during WWII.
What is lebensraum?
Far Left totalitarian government led by a dictator of forced suppression where the government owns the means of production and doesn't recognize unalienable rights.
What is Communism?
Radical Islamist terrorists hi-jacked American passenger jets and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City murdering nearly 3,000 people.
What is September 11, 2001?