WORLD HISTORY
This ancient empire built the Colosseum and roads that are still used today.
What is the Roman Empire?
This movement in the 1960s aimed to end segregation and promote equal rights for African Americans.
What is the civil rights movement?
It is the largest island in the world.
What is Greenland?
This war saw the largest number of combatants and casualties.
What is WWII?
He invented the light bulb (and also held over 1,000 patents.)
Who is Thomas Edison?
This explorer is credited with "discovering" the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This U.S. state was the last to join the Union, in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
This U.S. state has the most Southern point in the country.
What is Hawaii?
This war produced the highest number of deaths of any US war involving the US.
What is the Civil War?
He developed hundreds of products from peanuts, including peanut butter (hint: this person actually didn't invent peanut butter!).
Who was George Washington Carver?
This construction project South of the U.S. tremendously shortened the shipping time from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.
What is the Panama canal?
This is the number of US Presidents assassinated while in office.
What is 4
The equator runs through this rainforest-covered continent.
What is South America?
This war was subsequently known as "the war to end all wars."
What is WWI?
This inventor created the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This country in ancient times was the birthplace of Democracy.
What is Greece?
These are the mighty vehicles that helped settle the wild west by driving on metal tracks.
What are trains?
This country has the most people of any country in the world today.
What is India?
The number of casualties for this nation in WWII was 27 million.
What was the Soviet Union?
He founded microbiology and is known for developing pasteurization and vaccines.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This is the term given for the genocide of the Jews during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
This person was a military leader who lead the rough riders up San Juan hill in Cuba, became President of the US, and while President increased the size of the Navy and sailed it around the world in a show of force. Hint: the Teddy bear is named after him.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
In this city ( or country ) one will find the tallest building in the world today.
What is Dubai, United Arab Emirates?
(over 2,700 feet tall)
During the Korean War, this country came to the aid of North Korea, supplying troops and equipment.
What is China?
This person is a key person in electricity, and he developed the alternating current (AC)
Who is Nikola Tesla?