The Gilded Age
He was known as America's banker, and was also an organizer of railroads.
Who was J. P. Morgan?
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian Archduke sparked World War I.
What was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
He won the election of 1932.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Who was Winston Churchill?
A period of tension and intense competition between the United States and Soviet Union after WWII.
What was the Cold War?
He won the 1888 presidential election.
Who was Benjamin Harrison?
The sinking of this ship helped to lead America into the war.
What was the Lusitania?
This was the name of FDR's promise to the American people.
What was the New Deal?
This means "lighting war" in German.
What is blitzkrieg?
This was president Truman's policy to deal with the Soviet presence in Eastern Europe.
What is containment?
This is another word for a court order.
What is an injunction?
This was the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy established in 1882.
What was the Triple Alliance?
This was Roosevelt's plan to add justices to the Supreme Court.
What was the court-packing plan?
A predominantly German area in western Czechoslovakia.
What is the Sudetenland?
He was placed in charge of the UN military forces in the Korean War.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
What are the three As of immigration?
This telegram between Germany and Mexico convinced many Americans to enter the war.
What was the Zimmerman telegram?
This government agency put young, unmarried men to work planting trees, building roads, developing parks, and assisting with soil conservation.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The major turning point of the war in the Pacific.
What was the Battle of Midway?
He used lies, distortion, and innuendo to root out domestic communists in America.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Who was D. L. Moody?
This offensive was the largest American campaign in World War I.
What was the Argonne offensive?
This agency insured the bank deposits of millions of Americans against loss.
What was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
He was an African American mess attendant aboard the battleship West Virginia during the Pearl Harbor attack who was awarded the Navy Cross for being a hero.
Who was Dorie Miller?
A huge civil rights protest involving two hundred thousand people in the nation's capital.
What was the March on Washington?