Important Figures
Which leader was responsible for the start of WWII?
Hitler
What event on US soil forced the US to enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
___________ is exaggerated or made-up news stories.
Yellow journalism
What amendment gave African Americans the protection to vote?
15th amendment
This was the cash crop of the colonies
What was cotton?
What president signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the South?
Abraham Lincoln
What civil rights protest took three attempts to complete?
March on Selma
In WWII, France, the U.S., and Britain were a part of the __________ powers.
Allied
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th amendment
The 17th parallel divided north and south during this war
Vietnam War
What president created the New Deal to bring the country out of the Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Manhattan Project created this
What is the atomic bomb?
What is it called when the government has total control of all resources?
Communism
What did the 18th amendment ban?
Transportation, selling, and creation of alcohol
The first women's movement focused on _________ rights.
Voting
What future president led the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War?
Theodore Roosevelt
This event signals the end of the Cold War
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
What was the competition called between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to get a human to the moon first?
Space race
The ____ amendment abolished slavery.
13th
________ are groups riding on interstate buses to challenge lack of enforcement for desegregation laws.
Freedom rides or riders
Who was the president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
In what war did the U.S. win Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
Spanish-American war
An ________ is a change to something.
Amendment
This amendment gave newly freed black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th?
What country won the battle of Stalingrad?
Soviet Union