Dates
World War II
Cold War
Constitution
Manifest Destiny
100
December 7, 1941
What is Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
100
Coalition of Germany, Italy and Japan.
What are the Axis Powers?
100
The city of Berlin was divided into four zones after World War II. The Soviet zone eventually became East Berlin, while the Great Britain, United States and This Country occupied the non-communist zone of West Berlin.
Who is France?
100
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?
100
This independent nation was annexed to the U.S. in 1845.
What is Texas?
200
September 11, 2001
What are the terrorists attacks on the WTC and Pentagon?
200
Coalition of United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union.
What are the Allied Powers?
200
This military alliance brought together the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy and eight other noncommunist nations with a pledge of mutual protection.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
200
This amendment based representation in Congress on all the people of the state and also defined U.S. citizenship as all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
In 1853, this $10,000,000 purchase from Mexico gave the U.S. 29,000 square miles of land along the southern border of the New Mexico territory.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
300
November 22, 1963
What is JFK assassination?
300
This 1944 invasion led directly to the liberation of France and the invasion of Germany.
What is the invasion of Normandy (D-Day)?
300
Many Americans were shocked by this apparent display of scientific superiority in 1957, when the Soviets launched this artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik I?
300
According to this amendment, the right to vote could not be denied or abridged because of race, color or previous servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
In the 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain gave up this territory in exchange for the United States giving up its claim to Texas.
What is Florida?
400
October 29, 1929
What is the U.S. stock market crash?
400
Beginning in 1943, Allied powers landed only on islands that were important and bypassed less important islands cutting them off from supplies and reinforcements in a strategy famously known as this---
What is island-hopping?
400
This Wisconsin Senator claimed in 1950 that he possessed a list of more than 200 communists who worked for the U.S. State Department. His unproven claims were eventually discredited in 1954.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
400
This basic principle states that the Powers of government are restricted by the Constitution.
What is Limited Government?
400
This 1848 Treaty that ended the Mexican War gave the U.S. title lands from Texas to the Pacific and North to the Oregon territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
April 15, 1775
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord (Beginning of the American Revolution)?
500
In February 1942, the U.S. government ordered all Japanese Americans living on the U.S. West Coast into these-- The U.S. government officially apologized in 1988.
What are internment (detention) camps?
500
Neither side achieved a clear victory in this Cold War conflict. In 1953 new border separated the North and South provinces along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
500
This amendment abolished slavery in 1865
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
In 1846, the Treaty of Oregon between the United States and this country settled the Oregon boundary along the 49th parallel.
Who is Great Britain?
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