Vocabulary
This term can be defined as spying.
What is espionage?
This individual was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II, a member of the "big three", and attended the Yalta Conference.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
What is D-Day?
This attack on the U.S. by Japan on December 7, 1941 officially brought the U.S. into World War II?
What was Pearl Harbor?
This treaty officially ended World War I and resulted in the creation of the League of Nations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This term can be defined as a war in which enemies do not fight in combat but instead compete in conflict in other ways.
What is cold war?
This individual was the 26th president of the United States and leader of the Rough Riders. Known for his bold style, progressive policies, and "trust-busting". Was also a conservationist.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
The United States and Great Britain organized this to help citizens of West Berlin after Stalin enacted a blockade of the entire city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
At this event, the "Big Three" met at a city in the Soviet Union to discuss the post-World War II world, and determined what to do with Germany.
What was the Yalta Conference?
This was a major victory for the U.S. as it significantly boosted trade by making it quicker and easier for ships to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
This term is defined as identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What is nationalism?
This woman was at one point First Lady of the United States and known for her activism and involvement in her husband's presidency during the Great Depression and World War II.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This World War II battle was fought in Egypt and resulted in the Nazis being driven out of Northern Africa.
What was the Battle of El Alamein?
This major supreme court case legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
This infamous message from Germany to Mexico greatly angered Americans and helped President Wilson to justify American entry into World War I.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
This term can be defined as the crime of lying under oath; the act of lying after swearing to tell the truth.
What is perjury?
This individual was the last Queen of Hawaii who advocated for her people and for the Americans to relinquish control of Hawaii.
Who was Lilioukalani?
This World War I battle resulted in a stalemate and both sides realizing that the War would be longer and bloodier than either had anticipated.
What was the Battle of the Marne?
This was the American policy of holding back or stopping communism enacted during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This treaty opened up ports of trade in Japan for American use in the 1850s.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This term is defined as attempts to overthrow or undermine a government by working secretly within that government.
What is subversion?
This individual was a black activist and founder of NAACP, wanted complete equality for black people and thought the only way to get it was through "true suffrage". Author of The Souls of Black Folk.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
This battle was fought during the Spanish-American War and resulted in the U.S. capture of Puerto Rico.
What was the Battle of San Juan Hill?
This event was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This law was passed in 1890 and was a federal antitrust law intended to control or prohibit monopolies by forbidding certain practices that restrain competition.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Law?