Wars & Battles
A war between the US and the Soviet Union regarding communism.
The Cold War
This event happened during the Cold War regarding weapons in another country.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This major storm impacted the east coast of the US.
Hurricane Sandy
This event caused a new state to enter the union as a slave state while allowing Maine to enter as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
Native Americans were forced to move from Florida to Oklahoma on foot.
The Trail of Tears
This battle was the bloodiest single battle of the Civil War.
The Battle of Gettysburg.
A competition between the US and Russia regarding the first to land on the moon.
The Space Race
A period of a long drought and a fire impacted the economy of a major US city.
The Great Chicago Fire
A time in the 1930s where major droughts occurred in the southern plains, contributing to the Great Depression.
The Dust Bowl
In Texas, "Remember the ________!"
Alamo
The US was involved in a war over communism in southeast Asia.
The Vietnam War
A machine that helped increase the production of a cash crop
The Cotton Gin
The event was impacted Texas after beginning in Africa.
The Galveston Hurricane
People like Jackie Robinson is the face of this movement.
Racism in baseball
This explorer has a New York river named after him.
Henry Hudson
This event caused by the United States greatly impacted people living in Japan during WWII.
The atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The U.S. government research project made the world’s first ever atomic bombs.
The Manhattan Project
A powerful storm that greatly impacted Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Hurricane Katrina
This notorious day is also known as "Black Tuesday".
The day the stock market crashed.
Which famous night did George Washington cross the Delaware?
December 25
This war happened right after WWII, leading to one country separating.
The Korean War
This person developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
Thomas Edison
This event was caused by a shift along the San Andreas Fault.
The Fransisco Earthquake
The assassination of this person was due to his assassination of President Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
The winter George Washington and his troops waited out the British look place here.
Valley Forge