This pamphlet, published by Thomas Paine before the war, raised support in the colonies for revolution.
What is Common Sense?
100
This is where the Confederacy surrendered.
What is Appomatox?
100
His assassination sparked World War I in Europe.
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
During the war, this group of Americans was relocated to internment camps because of often unfounded fears that they were involved in war activities.
What is Japanese-Americans?
100
This event demonstrated that the Vietcong could attack major cities through South Vietnam and lowered American's confidence that the US was winning the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
This document, issued after the Revolution, created a weak government because it did not have the power to levy taxes or raise an army.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
Prior to the Civil War, the South had not developed much industry and made most of its profit through the sale of this crop.
What is cotton?
200
When the war initially broke out in Europe, this is the position that the US took at first?
What is staying neutral (or neutrality)?
200
This is what African-Americans called their fight for equality in the US after the war, when they were no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens after fighting abroad.
What is the Double V campaign?
200
An anti-war protest during the 1970s at this school saw 4 students killed by the National Guard.
What is Kent State University?
300
This group contributed to the war effort by maintaining their households and ensuring the economic stability of the colonies during the war.
What is women?
300
The Battle of Vicksburg was an important battle for the Union because it gave them control of this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
This was the agreement made to end World War I; conservative Republican opponents argued that it would limit US sovereignty.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
During the war, this group of people had more job opportunities with higher wages available to them.
What is women?
300
Acquisition of this territory aroused the greatest controversy at the end of the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippine Islands?
400
This European country helped the North American colonies during the Revolution, mainly because they wanted to weaken the British empire.
What is France?
400
This Civil War battle is considered pivotal to the outcome of the war because it delayed the possibility of European intervention.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
This telegram, sent from Germany to Mexico, was part of what justified US intervention in the war.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
This is the name of the secret project to develop the atomic bomb which the US undertook.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
This doctrine intended to prevent communism from spreading through military aggression, established during the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
This treaty, which ended the Revolutionary War, established US sovereignty over territory east of the Mississippi, between the Great Lakes and Florida.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
He was the leader of the Confederate States of America.
What is Jefferson Davis?
500
This is the name of a march of World War I veterans in Washington DC trying to get the payments they had been promised by Congress.
What is the Bonus March?
500
This sport was almost completely eliminated during World War I because its materials had to be used to support the war effort.
What is auto racing?
500
Approval of this resolution led to increased US involvement in the war in Vietnam.