Vocab
World Wars
Cold War
Great Depression
Ellis Island
100
Business owned by investors
Corporation
100
Who was the German Dictator during World War II
Hitler
100
Who were the two superpowers at the time of the Cold War?
Soviet Union and United States
100
What event on October 29th 1929 is seen as the start of the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
100
Ellis Island is off the coast of which state?
New York
200
A single company that controls an entire industry
Monopoly
200
Who was the Russian Dictator during World War II
Stalin
200
What island country close to the United States did the Soviet Union ship nuclear missiles to in October of 1962
Cuba
200
President at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
200
How many people passed through Ellis Island
12 Million
300
government practice of spending more money than it takes in
deficit spending
300
What event led to the United States entering World War II
Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor
300
Name 2 wars that the United States were involved in with the goal of trying to stop the spread of Communism
Korea and Vietnam
300
President who came up with The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt
300
Who controls Ellis Island today?
National Park Service
400
President Nixon's policy to reduce tensions between the superpowers
Detente
400
Who was president of the United States during World War I
Wilson
400
What city in Germany was divided between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies
Berlin
400
What was the New Deal?
Government projects created to give people jobs and help lift the country out of the depression
400
The first person to pass through Ellis Island is from which country?
Ireland
500
system in which individuals, not governments, decide what and how much to produce and sell
Free Market Economy
500
Who was president of the United States at the end of World War II?
Turman
500
Which President is blamed for worsening the war in Vietnam and did not seek reelection in 1968
Lyndon Johnson
500
What event finally led to the end of the Great Depression?
World War II
500
During which two wars was Ellis Island used for ammunition and military purposes?
War of 1812 and Civil War
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