Robber Barons
John D. Rockefeller
What is Standard Oil
This wall separated the capitalist Western Europe with the Communist Eastern Europe
What is the Berlin Wall?
These communities of shacks were cleverly named after the President, blamed for the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
Alexander Graham Bell
What is the Telephone?
The mass killing of Jewish citizens by the German's during the war was known as this?
What is the Holocaust?
Andrew Carnegie
What is Steel
This event was stopped by the US creating a ship blockade from the Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This dirty event effected the production of farms and led many farmers to move out west.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Thomas Edison
What is the light bulb?
This event pushed a hesitant United States into joining the war.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Vanderbilt
What are Railroads
This conflict ended up creating the territorial boundary lines, right back where they were originally. The 38th parallel
What is the Korean War?
These programs by FDR were designed specifically to draw the US out of the Great Depression.
What are the New Deal Programs?
George Pullman
What are Pullman sleeper cars?
This war strategy was used by the United States to slowly move close to Japan and allow it to attack the Japanese on their own soil.
What is island hopping?
J.P.Morgan
What is Banking
This was a failed CIA led attack in which Cuban Exiles attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This is the name given for the "hands" off political approach used by Hoover during the Great Depression.
Laissez Faire
Swift and Armour
What are refrigeration cars?
These two Japanese cities were on the receiving end of not 1 but two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Political Boss that played a major role in Democratic politics in New York
Who is Boss Tweed?
This was a coordinated assault by communist forces on more than 40 cities in Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This Group of homeless veterans set up Hoovervilles in Washington D.C. in protest.
Bonus Army
DuPont
What are plastics and explosives?
This is the name of the project that helped develop the atomic bomb AND this is the location here in Tennessee that played a major role in that project.
What is the Manhattan project and Oak Ridge?