US Presidents
US Wars
The Cold War Era
Organizational/Text Structures (2.b.)
Figurative Language (1.b., 2.e.)
100
This President was in office during the Vietnam War, and he is responsible for America's withdrawal of troops from that conflict.
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
This war officially ended after the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when the United States' (Allies) last enemy surrendered unconditionally.
What is World War II?
100
These were the two superpowers at opposite ends of the Cold War.
What are the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A.?
100
Having no keywords, this is the most general of all organizational structures.
What is description?
100
This sound devices involves the repetition of a similar sound at the beginning of two or more words.
What is alliteration?
200
This President was assassinated and his position succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is William McKinley?
200
These two wars were started under the Presidency of George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11.
What are the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan?
200
This is the term that describes the overwhelming cultural fear of communism that led to mass accusations of communist activity and criminal charges being brought against individuals believed to be communists.
What is the Red Scare?
200
This organizational/text structure often uses prepositions to show how objects are arranged in relation to one another?
What is spatial order or spatial arrangement?
200
This is a common expression whose meaning is generally understood in a figurative and not in a literal way.
What is idiom?
300
This President launched the first Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
300
This war was fought between the United States and forces led by a communist dictator named Ho Chi Minh.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This congressional committee was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee?
300
This structure considers the similarities and/or differences between multiple ideas or things.
What is compare/contrast?
300
The following is an example of this kind of figurative language: "As I listened, I felt the sharp knife-edge of her question."
What is metaphor?
400
This President ordered the drop of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
400
When it happened, this was "the war to end all wars," though another war of greater scope would happen decades later.
What is World War I?
400
This is the "doctrine" named after the US President who believed that the American policy toward communism should be one of "containment," and that the US should try to undermine communist countries to cause them to change governments.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
This structure describes how something is usually done or must be done, and it is often used in recipes and instruction manuals.
What is process/procedural order?
400
The following is an example of this sound device: "I am astounded how he frowns whenever he misses a rebound."
What is assonance?
500
This President, with his "Fourteen Points," started the League of Nations in Europe after World War I, but could not convince the US Congress to join the League.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
America's entry into this war was encouraged by yellow journalism—especially the work of William Randolph Hearst—at the end of the Gilded Age.
What is the Spanish-American War?
500
This is the meaning of the acronym N.A.T.O., the alliance of democratic countries who opposed the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
500
This structure not only describes events but also gives an explanation or reason for one leading directly and necessary to the next.
What is cause and effect?
500
The following is an example of this kind of figurative language: "They squinted at Yoshinda, who had become nothing more than a blue ink stain as she walked away toward the horizon."
What is metaphor?
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