WWI
The continent of Europe.
On what continent did WWI mostly take place?
The time in America of peace and prosperity, when many inventions came about and life in America was awesome.
What the roaring 20s?
The holocaust
What is the slaughtering of Jews called?
Russia and America.
What two countries emerged after WWII as the world's super powers?
They were trying to keep communism from spreading.
Why was the US involved in the Korean and Vietnam wars?
President of the US who passed legislation to help America out of the Great Depression. He had polio and was in a wheel chair.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary
What started WWI?
The date of the worst stock market crash in US history that started the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
Britain, United States, and later Russia
Who were the main Allied Powers?
The distrust between the US and Russia that resulted in an arms race but never direct conflict. Instead, they fought in other countries.
What is the Cold War?
Korean War 1950 and Vietnam War 1964-1975
What are the dates of each war?
The name of FDR's legislation to create jobs and help America out of the depression.
What was the New Deal?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey
Against
US, England, France
Who were the Central Powers and the Allied Powers?
The U.S. army's pursuit of Pancho Villa in to Mexico that caused strained relations between the two countries.
What was the Mexican Expedition?
Also known as D-Day, it is the battle in which the US and Allied forces launched the largest air-sea invasion stopping the Germans from advancing on England.
What is the Battle of Normandy?
The US and the USSR trying to reach space first. The USSR started with a satellite named Sputnik but the US finally won by reaching the moon.
What is the Space Race?
The country of Korea split in two with the north remaining communist and the south democratic.
What was the result of the Korean War?
New Mexican politicians who helped bring New Deal programs to New Mexico.
Who were Dennis Chavez and/or Clyde Tingley?
The letter to Mexico from Germany promising Germany land in America if Mexico helps Germany in the War.
What was the Zimmerman Note?
Began in 1926, the road that ran from Chicago to California crossing through New Mexico.
What is the "Mother Road"?
The most very excellent air craft carrier of the US fleet that luckily enough was not at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. She is the most decorated ship in our navy with 20 stars.
Who is the Big E or the USS Enterprise?
In April 1942, the Japanese forced American and Filipino POWS to march 65 miles to camps. Most POWs died on the way.
What was the Bataan Death March?
The year 1975.
What was the year we pulled all our troops out of Vietnam?
Schools created for Native Americans by white people where the Natives were forced to send their kids to make them more "white".
What were Indian Boarding Schools?
The Treaty of Versailles.
What was the treaty that ended WWI and punished Germany very harshly?
The terrible drought that hit the mid west causing farms and ranches to dry up and crops to die.
What is the Dust Bowl?
President Harry S. Truman.
Who was president when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Korean and Vietnam Wars.
What two conflicts (wars) were part of the Cold War?
The US pulled out of this conflict because we were not winning and the war was very unpopular in the US.
Why did the US pull out of Vietnam?
Government projects that benefited the general public that put many men and women to work in places like schools and post offices.
What were Public Works?