Outside the United States Boundaries
What did William H. Seward purchase for the United States from Russia?
Alaska
Whose death triggered WWI?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Who was President of the United States during WWII?
Franklin Roosevelt
Who was the black minister who organized a civil rights campaign? He said..."I have a dream..."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the Communist dictator in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Fidel Castro
Who was the English explorer who discovered Hawaii?
Captain James Cook
Who was President of the United States during WWI?
Name the 3 leaders of the Axis powers during WWII.
Benito Mussolini (Italy), Adolf Hitler (Germany), and Tojo (Japan)
He was the first black-American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
President of the United States who was known as the Great Communicator...he sought to return America to it's Christian values.
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the English passenger liner sunk by the German U-boats at the beginning of WWI?
Lusitania
Where did Japan attack the United States that got us into the war?
Pearl Harbor
Who was the first American to fly in space?
Alan B. Shephard Jr.
What was known as the belief that Communism should be stopped before it can attack and enslave a country?
Reagan Doctrine
What year did the Panama Canal open?
1914
What was the name of the letter in which Germany asked Mexico to fight with them in WWI?
Zimmerman Note
Who was the Communist dictator of Russia during WWII?
Joseph Stalin
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
First woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Who was the army doctor who successfully destroyed the disease-carrying mosquitos in Cuba and near the Panama Canal?
Colonel William Gorgas
What was formed after WWI to try to preserve world peace?
League of Nations
What world organization was established after WWII so that the nations of the world could work together to solve their problems?
United Nations
He was the first American to orbit the earth.
John Glenn
Who was the dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait and was suspected of hiding chemical weapons? They found him hiding in a hole when he was arrested.
Saddam Hussein