WW2 and Cold War
Name the countries that made up the Axis Powers during WW2
Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan
Into what buildings did the terrorists crash the 3 planes?
Pentagon, World Trade Center
First woman elected as vice president?
Kamala Harris
Hurricane Katrina caused severe flooding in what city?
New Orleans
A time when the economy becomes less active?
Recession
Who was the final Soviet President?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Director of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War?
First female to serve as a Supreme Court justice?
Sandra Day O'Connor
The disaster that affected much of the Gulf Coast?
BP Deepwater Horizon explosion
After the Korean War, what part of Korea remained under Communist control?
North Korea
The first atomic bomb was dropped on __________?
Hiroshima
The leaders of Afghanistan, the Taliban, refused to turn ___________ over to the United States.
Osama bin Ladin
First black American to serve as a Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
To avoid spreading COVID-19, people practiced social ________?
Social distancing
Hurricane _________ became a superstorm that affected many parts of the East coast in 2012?
Sandy
The time period where the Soviet Union and United States threatened to drop bombs on each other?
The Cold War
The first military action of the __________ ______ War was Operation Desert Storm.
Persian Gulf War
Apollo 11
Who founded the SpaceX?
Elon Musk
The One World Trade Center was built beside ground zero in what city?
Richard Nixon brought an end to what war?
The Vietnam War
President Obama ordered Seal Team 6 to find who?
Osama bin Ladin
Designed to take clear pictures of objects in space from more than one million miles from Earth?
James Webb Space Telescope
Learning over the internet instead of in-person?
Distance learning
Donald Trump