Mid-Late 1800's
This battle began the American Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This event caused the United States to enter World War II.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
After World War II, this was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted for decades.
What was the Cold War?
This president came into office in 1960 with the help of television.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
This man gave an important speech while dedicating a cemetery during the Civil War. Name the man and the speech.
Who was Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address?
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This president shared his ideas about the New Deal during his Fireside Chats.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Even though this war was fought in Asia, it was also a battle between communism and capitalism in the 1950's which ended in a division of a nation into two separate countries.
What was the Korean War?
This conflict between the US and the Soviet Union took place on an island off the coast of Florida.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This man led the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960's.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr?
This Act allowed people to travel west and claim land to set up a farm or ranch.
What was the Homestead Act?
This president established the National Park System.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
Senator Joseph McCarthy promoted a culture of fear of communism within the United States by accusing many well-known people of being communists. This was know as....
What is the Red Scare?
After the presidential assassination in 1963, this man was immediately sworn into office.
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
He created Standard Oil Company after developing a way to refine crude oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This person developed the moving assembly line, which allowed automobiles to affordably be made available to many Americans.
Who was Henry Ford?
This state was the first to allow women the right to vote.
What was Wyoming?
Give two examples of how a typical home in the 1950's was different from homes in the 1930's and 40's.
What are:
television, suburbs, baby boom, new appliances, homes filled with easily purchased items
This plan was created by the president during the 1960's to declare a war on poverty.
What was the Great Society?
This theory stated that if one country became communist, the other countries around them would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
Chinese people were primarily responsible for constructing this major form of transportation across the country.
What was Transcontinental Railroad?
This event in 1929 was the first step in a decade-long economic struggle across the nation.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
The competition between the US and the USSR caused scientists to develop new technology. Name one example of technology that both countries were developing as part of this competition.
What are: rockets, satellites, nuclear weapons
Throughout the 1960's and into the early 1970's, a war was being fought against communism in this Asian country.
What was Vietnam?
This man used the Bessemer System to develop steel, which allowed cities and railroads to grow.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?