Unit 6: Industrialization
Completed in 1869 with a golden spike, this transportation system was the first to connect the East and the West Coasts.
This event in 1914 started World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union was called this.
This technological invention changed communication and access to information around the world.
What is the Internet?
Many European immigrants entered the United States through this harbour station located in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This attack on the United States by Japan brought the US into WWII.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbour?
This conflict was fought in Southeast Asia during the 1950s–1970s and divided Americans.
What is the Vietnam War?
This event marked the end of the Cold War era in 1991
What was the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
What is urbanization?
This economic boom defined much of the 1920s and including things like prohibition, women's rights, and organized crime.
What is the Roaring 20's?
This Allied invasion of France occurred on June 6, 1944, and led to end WWII.
What was D-Day / the Storming of Normandy?
This movement worked to end segregation and secure equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This disease became a global pandemic in 2020 and affected schools, businesses, and travel.
What is COVID-19?
Workers formed these groups to fight for things like better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What are labour unions?
This cultural movement that began in New York City celebrated African American art, music, history, and literature.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The United States dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities. (Need both)
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This social media platform, launched in 2004, changed how people communicate online.
What is Facebook?
This business man founded the Standard Oil Comapny and became one of America's richest men in history.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This document, sent from Germany to Mexico, was intercepted by the English and prompted America to join WWI.
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
Oppenheimer and General Leslie were put in charge of what program designed to create atomic weapons?
What was the Manhattan Project?
This dog was sent by the USSR to space in an attempt to test sending living creatures to space.
Who was Laika?
This government agency was created after the September 11 attacks to help protect the nation.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?