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Cold War Conflict
Korean Conflict
Vietnam War
War on Terrorism
Persian Gulf War
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The Soviet Union encouraged other countries to become communist.
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union disagree during the Cold War?
100
North Korea wanted to force South Korea to become a communist country.
Why did North Korea invade South Korea druing the Korean Conflict?
100
South Vietnam.
Where did the United States fight during the Vietnam War?
100
The start of the war on terrorism.
What is the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001?
100
Guided Missiles and Night-vision gear.
What are two types of technology that allowed the US to to fight day and night?
200
The tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
What marked the end of the Cold War?
200
1950
When did the Korean Conflict begin?
200
1964
What is the year that President Nixon started sending U.S. troops to Vietnam?
200
Afghanistan
What is the country in which the war on terrorism began?
200
National Guard Troops
What did Alabama contribute more of than any other state in the United States to the Persian Gulf War?
300
William Sibert
Who is the man that oversaw the construction of the Alabama State Docks that helped improve Alabama's economy?
300
South Korea.
What is the country that the Korean Conflict took place?
300
1,000.
What is the number of Alabamians that lost their lives during the Vietnam War?
300
Terrorists were thought to be located and trained in Afghanistan.
Why did the war on terrorism begin where it did?
300
Petroleum
What did Alabama not contribute to the Perisan Gulf War?
400
Electricity
What is the advance in the 1930's that helped agriculture benefit Alabama's economy?
400
Huntsville
What is the city in which Alabama used to depend on for its agriculture but has since prospered from the aerospace and other industries?
400
Communism
What is the cause of the Vietnam War?
400
Middle East
What is the place where the war on terrorism began?
400
There are fewer farms, but they are larger.
What is a way in which the farming in Alabama is different today than it was in the 1950's?
500
Agriculture
What is the one industry that has NOT grown with the decrease in the number of Alabama farms?
500
Automobiles
What is an export that Alabama depends on?
500
Electronics.
What is an export that Alabama depends on?
500
George W. Bush
Who was the President of the United States during the attacks on September 11, 2001?
500
National Guard troops, Air National Guard troops, and Missiles.
What are three things that Alabama contributed to the Persian Gulf War?