Name That Veep
THIS veep became prez in between the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.
Who is Truman?
A top-secret project named after THIS island was responsible for developing the atomic bomb.
What is Manhattan?
THIS naval base was the target of major attack on a day that would "live in infamy."
What is Pearl Harbor?
Previously referred to as a "riot" and now considered a "massacre," a white mob attacked a prosperous Black community in THIS Oklahoma City in 1921.
What is Tulsa?
This prez was famously "silent," which earned him his nickname.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
THIS veep ascended to the presidency when William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist in 1901.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Due to THIS act of legislation, many Chinese workers were detained on Angel Island in the early twentieth century.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
THIS famous nuclear test took place near an air base in New Mexico in July 1945.
What is the Trinity Test?
THIS 1890 murder of approximately 300 Sioux fighters and civilians by government soldiers used to be called a "battle" and is now called a massacre.
What is Wounded Knee?
THIS prez was impeached in 1998 for perjuring himself after having an affair with a White House intern.
Who is Bill Clinton?
THIS person became president when JFK was assassinated.
Who is LBJ?
American sugar and fruit companies pushed for the United States to annex THIS island chain in 1898. The rise in nationalism during the Spanish-American War increased support for the annexation.
What is Hawaii?
Since its revolution in 1959 and the series of tense encounters that followed, this country has been at odds with the United States, although the American military retains a base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is Cuba?
What is Haymarket?
THIS person was prez when the Marbury v. Madison decision was handed down.
Who is Jefferson?
THIS veep became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Millions of immigrants came through the processing center on THIS island off New York City as part of the "New Immigration" wave.
What is Ellis Island?
The United States retained bases in cities like Frankfurt and Hamburg even after THIS country was established in 1949.
What is West Germany?
THIS uprising in a queer neighborhood in New York City in 1969 marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
THIS prez was the first democrat to be elected after the Civil War. He was re-election in 1892 even though Populism was on the rise and he didn't support "free silver."
Who is Grover Cleveland?
THIS person was Andrew Jackson's veep when he attempted to calm secessionist fervor in South Carolina by developing the doctrine of nullification, prompting the Nullification Crisis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
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What is I ran out of time?
THIS is the nickname for a group of angry WWI veterans and their supporters who set up camp in Washington DC in 1932 to demand early payment of their promised veterans' benefits.
What was the Bonus Army?
An uprising against police violence in THIS CITY in 1967 is often called a riot and considered part of the "long, hot summer" of urban unrest.
What is Detroit?
THIS prez was in power when Saigon fell.
Who is Gerald Ford?