U.S. History Potporri
COLD WAR
Modern Western Civilizations
American History to 1865
American History from 1865 to Today
100

These  are the 49th and 50th states.

What is Alaska and Hawaii?

100

Name the 2 Superpowers

USSR and United States

100
When did World War One begin?
What is 1914?
100
Name three of the thirteen colonies.
What is New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia?
100
What American Football team got their name from the California gold rush?
What is the 49ers?
200

This is the captain of the railroad and shipping industry.

Who was Vanderbilt?

200

A policy to prevent communism. 

What is containment?

200
The Cuban Missile Crisis was part of what larger event?
What is the Cold War?
200

Where did the Revolutionary War end?

What is Battle of Yorktown ?

200
On which day did Pearl Harbor take place?
What is December 7, 1941?
300

This is the movement of making things by hand to making them with machines. 

What is mechanization / Industrial Revolution?

300

This is when people feared communism. Think of the color of a cherry. 

What is the Red Scare. 

300
Name three of the five main Allied Powers?
What are the United States, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, or China?
300
What event caused the Civil War to begin?
What is the firing on Fort Sumter?
300
Which president state the National Park System?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400

A company that controls ALL production and sales of an industry...

What is a monopoly?

400

The Soviet Union attempted to put missiles on this country. 

What is Cuba. 

400
What year was the Berlin Wall constructed?
What is 1961?
400
Name two inventions from the early 1800s that contributed to the Industrial Revolution?
What is the steam locomotive, Morse Code, Cotton Gin, rubber vulcanization or the sewing machine?
400

What decade was the Dust Bowl?

What is 1930's?

500

Captain of the automobile and assembly line. 

Who is Henry Ford?

500

Which president handled the Cuban Missile Crises? 

Who was John F. Kennedy?

500

What is the purpose of NATO?

What is to promote military alliance/support democracy/anti-communism?

500
Name the first five presidents.
What is George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe?
500

Which senator created the Red Scare?

Who was Joseph McCarthy?

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