U.S. History
The Sons of Liberty
A political and economic system that aims to build a classless society where the public owns the means of production, such as factories and land, and wealth is shared equally based on people's needs
This 13th-century conqueror united the nomadic tribes of the Eurasian steppe and founded the largest contiguous land empire in human history
Genghis Khan
The assassination of this person and their wife sparked the start of the First World War
Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
A tax or duty imposed by a national government on goods imported from other countries (hint: Trump enforced A LOT of these in the past year)
Tariffs
Aberham Lincoln gave this famous speech in November 1863, famously starting with "Four score and seven years ago"
The Gettysburg Address
The two superpower nations that fiercely competed in the Space Race to achieve milestones like putting a satellite, animal, and man into orbit
The United States and the Soviet Union (USSR)
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and communicable diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres following Columbus's voyage
The Columbian Exchange
The name of the generation that came of age during and immediately after World War I
The Lost Generation
This is the full name of the governmental agency "ICE"
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The only U.S. president to serve more than two terms (and how many did he serve for)?
Franklin D. Roosevelt won and served four terms.
The guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from August 13, 1961, to November 9, 1989
The Berlin Wall
A vast network of Asian land and sea trade routes that operated from the 2nd century BCE until the mid-15th century
The Silk Road
This massive amphibious invasion of the beaches at Normandy, France, took place on June 6, 1944.
D-Day
Trump passed this bill in July of 2025, which cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid and ACA subsidies, alongside reductions to SNAP food assistance (Hint: think of the letter B)
Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
One of the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Failed to provide the federal government with power to tax citizens, regulate trade, or enforce laws.
The tense, 13-day 1962 political and military standoff that represented the closest the world ever came to full-scale nuclear war
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This ancient civilization, located in modern-day Peru, built the mountain citadel of Machu Picchu
This secret 1917 telegram proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico, helping push the U.S. into the war.
The Zimmermann Telegram
The name of the nation-wide protests organized to oppose the policies, actions, and expansion of executive power of Trump's administration
The No Kings Protests
The name of a 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress had no constitutional power to ban slavery in federal territories.
The Dred Scott Decision
Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, this first-ever artificial earth satellite officially kicked off the Space Race
Sputnik
A fast-maturing, drought-resistant strain of rice that significantly boosted food production, population growth, and economic commercialization in Song China
Champa Rice
This treaty, signed in the Hall of Mirrors, formally placed the sole responsibility for the war on Germany and demanded massive financial reparations
The Treaty of Versailles
The narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea and that carries most of the wold's fuel (oil).
The Strait of Hormuz