US Backed Coups in the Western Hempishere
Name this failed invasion of Cuba in the 1960s.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Name this ship that exploded in Havana, triggering the start of the war.
Name this former name for New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
Name this invention that allowed music and other information to be broadcast among large distances at relative ease.
What is the radio?
Name this former landbridge that it is believed Native Americans crossed over to get to the Americas.
What is the Bering Landbridge?
Name this country in which president Isabel Peron was overthrown by a US backed dictatorship in 1976.
What is Argentina?
Name this type of journalism that featured massive headlines, big, lavish drawings, and relied heavy on gossip.
What is yellow journalism?
Name this former territory that encompassed the states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana.
What is the Northwest Territory?
Name this sport, which exploded in popularity due to stars such as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
What is baseball?
Name these people, famous for their astrology and calendar who lived in the modern day Yucatan region.
Who are the Mayans?
Name this country in which President Salvador Allende was overthrown and replaced by Augusto Pinochet in 1973.
What is the battle of Manila Bay?
Name this former colony at the southern end of the Delaware river, the largest and most notable colony in the Americas of its home country.
What is New Sweden?
Name this child actress of the 1930's who starred in such productions as "Heidi" and "The Little Princess"
Who was Shirley Temple?
Name these people who were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus when he arrived in the Americas.
Who are the Taino?
Name this country in which João Goulart was replaced with a military Junta in 1963?
What is Brazil?
What is the Battle of Guantanamo Bay?
Name this Missouri City, the site of a cataclysmic earthquake in 1812 that had the Mississippi River flowing backwards for a while.
What is New Madrid? (Pronounced Mad-drid)
Name this Black Olympian who won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics.
Who was Jesse Owens?
Name these indigenous people who were famous for building mounds for various purposes.
Who were the Mississippians?
Name this country in which Jacobo Árbenz was overthrown after land reforms affected US banana company profits in 1953.
What is Guatemala?
Name these type of Black Soldiers, the ones that actually led the charge at San Juan Hill.
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
Name this proposed state in the western great basin region by Mormon leaders, which encompassed large parts of Nevada, Utah, California, Arizona, Colorado, and smaller parts of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.
Name these first ever NFL champions and the only ever recipients of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cup.
Who are the Akron Pros?
Name these people, who inhabited (and still inhabit) Northern Canada and Alaska?
Who are the Inuit? (Do NOT accept Eskimos)