Civil War
The two sides fighting the war.
What is the Confederacy and the Union?
A policy that provided aid to western European countries following World War 2 to help them re build and influence democracy
What is the Marshall Plan
German leader who led Nazis
Who is Hitler?
two super power countries involved in Cold War
What is US and USSR?
President Kennedy saved the nation from nuclear disaster in this standoff over the location of nuclear missiles.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
Part of this deal stated that California would be a free state, and western territories would decide on slavery through popular sovereignty. It also banned slave trade in D.C and made legal the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is Compromise of 1850?
Teddy Roosevelt nickname during the Progressive Era
What is Trustbuster
these people were blamed for the German's problems
Who are the Jews?
policy used to try and stop communism from spreading
What is containment
Palmer Raids were used during the 1920's and McCarthy Raids were used during the 1950's to hunt down
communists
Decision of the Supreme Court that said slaves were property.
Dred Scot Case
Teddy Roosevelt's Plan to ensure all Americans get an equal chance to succeed.
What is Square Deal
what forced USA into the war
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is the DMZ?
What is demilitarized zone, separates North and South Korea along the 38th parallel
shanty towns named after this President during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles
nickname for when anti slavery and pro slavery forces clashed in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Women during the 1920s who began to wear shorter dresses, different hairstyles, partied, and smoked were called
What are flappers
This is the invasion of hundreds of thousands of Allied Soldiers into France, plan mastermind by Dwight Eisenhower.
What is D-Day?
What role did television play in the feelings of many Americans and the Vietnam War
What is
This law gave away 160 acres for almost nothing in the mid 19th century to encourage westward expansion
What is Homestead Act.
means to leave to country, happened after the election of Lincoln
Secede
A court case during the 1920s dealing with faith vs reason
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial
The name of the secret operation to develop the atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project.
this wall divided Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
Why was the Election of 1912 unique and what happened.
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