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100
combat in which each side occupies a system of protective trenches
What is Trench Warfare?
100
the 35th president of the United States and the youngest man elected to office
What is John F. Kennedy?
100
an immigration station where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated (located in San Francisco Bay, California)?
What is Angel Island?
100
a constant nonviolent state of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States that took place shortly after World War 2
What is Cold War?
100
a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915
What is Lusitania?
200
the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985
What is Glasnost?
200
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba
What is Fidel Castro?Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba?
200
in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan and served as the prime immigration station of the country
What is Ellis Island?
200
a war fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) that began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea
What is Korean War?
200
a system devised to encourage the Indians to live within clearly defined zones, in exchange the U.S. promised to provide food, goods and money and to protect them from attack by other tribes and white settlers
What is Reservation System?
300
a person from the northern United States who went to the South after the American Civil War to make money
What is Carpetbagger?
300
a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1851-74) who was active before and after the Civil War in the movement to abolish slavery and give equal rights to black Americans
What is Charles Sumner?
300
the waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and the United States built it from 1904 to 1914
What is Panama Canal?
300
a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement
What is Vietnam War?
300
the killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II
What is Holocaust?
400
system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land
What is a Sharecropping
400
a self-made millionaire and industrialist who co-founded the Standard Oil Company
What is Henry Flagler?
400
a city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea west of Osaka and was destroyed in World War II when an American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare (August 6, 1945)
What is Hiroshima?
400
a war in 1898 between the US and Spain, which the US started because it wanted Cuba to be independent from Spain and because the US battleship Maine was mysteriously destroyed by an explosion near Havana, Cuba
What is Spanish-American War?
400
a period in the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became popular, mainly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere
What is Jazz Age?
500
policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force
What is a Imperialism?
500
a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s
What is Thaddeus Stevens?
500
a city of western Kyushu, Japan, on Nagasaki Bay, an inlet of the East China Sea, the first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade in the 1500s, and hit by the second atomic bomb used in World War II (August 9, 1945)
What is Nagasaki? a city of western Kyushu, Japan, on Nagasaki Bay, an inlet of the East China Sea, the first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade in the 1500s, and hit by the second atomic bomb used in World War II (August 9, 1945)?
500
fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I
What is Fourteen Points?
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