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100
This brought the United States into World War 2
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
100
Inventor of the Assembly line, the Model T Car
Henry Ford
100
The failure of these financial institutions greatly exacerbated the problems of the Great Depression
Banks
100
Hatred and prejudice against Jewish people.
Anti-Semitism
100
Cause/Start of the Great Depression
Stock Market Collapse of 1929
200
Iwo Jima
200
Name both US presidents during WW2
FDR and Harry Truman
200
This humiliated the Germans, harboring resentment that fueled future conflict
The Treaty of Versailles
200
19th Amendment
Women's Suffrage
200
President Roosevelt's program aimed at ending the Great Depression.
The New Deal
300
The Allied invasion of France opened up a second front in Europe
D-Day
300
The British Prime Minister who was determined to keep fighting the Nazis
Winston Churchill
300
This American program successfully created the world's first nuclear weapon
The Manhattan Project
300
When the Allied Powers gave in to Hitler's demands to avoid conflict
Appeasement
300
Period in the U.S. (1920-1933) when alcohol was illegal.
Prohibition
400
These two battles marked the turing point of WW2
Stalingrad and Midway
400
The US President at the beginning of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
400
The name of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Operation Barbarosa
400
FDR's New Deal plan that forces Americans to save for Retirement
Social Security
400
Hitler's program aimed at eliminating European Jews
The Holocaust
500
This city was the first ever victim of a nuclear weapon
Hiroshima
500
The Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2
Dwight D Eisenhower
500
Exact date of Pearl Harbor
("A date that will live in infamy)
December 7, 1941
500
A system where the government controls the economy and there is no private property
Communism
500
Stalin used this to Reindustrialize the Soviet Union.
Stalin's 5 Year plan