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One of three treaties of the same name, this agreement finally recognized the United States as an independent country.
Treaty of Paris
This battle, along with the following Battle of Vicksburg, is widely considered to be the turning point of the Civil War for Union forces.
Battle of Gettysburg
The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, first known as Wood’s Weary Walkers, was given this nickname after Roosevelt took up the command.
Rough Riders
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret initiative which developed the atomic bombs dropped on these two cities at the end of the second world war.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This term was used to describe the American approach to the prevention of communism.
containment
On April 19, 1775, these conflicts between American minutemen and British soldiers became the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
Lexington and Concord
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General Ulysses S. Grant signed the treaty that ended the Civil War at this place in Virginia.
Appomattox Courthouse
This failed predecessor to the United Nations was established in the Treaty of Versailles as a part of President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points.
League of Nations
This strategy of taking over strategic islands occupied by enemy forces was used in the Pacific sphere against Japan.
island hopping or leapfrogging
This theory was used by Dwight D. Eisenhower to justify intervention in Vietnam on the premise of protecting the rest of Southeast Asia from the spread of communism.
domino theory
The siege of this Virginia town was the last major land engagement of the Revolutionary War and resulted in an English surrender.
Yorktown
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This war strategy was championed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in his famous March to the Sea.
People from this territory, given to America after the Spanish-American War, are considered US citizens and can move freely to the US, but cannot vote and do not have representation.
Puerto Rico
This is the official name for the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 which eventually liberated France from German control.
Operation Overlord
The trial and conviction of this husband and wife for Soviet espionage was extremely publicized and contributed to the Red Scare and communist witch hunt.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
These colonists opposed American independence and supported Britain in the Revolutionary War.
Tories
This system of agriculture, which allowed the wealthy to retain control of land and labor by renting farmland to newly-freed slaves and poor whites, replaced plantations in the South after the Civil War.
sharecropping
Along with Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare against American ships, this message from Germany to Mexico pushed the US into WW1.
Zimmerman Telegram
After WWII, this program was created as a way to stop the spread of communism by providing financial aid to vulnerable European countries.
Marshall Plan
In the Vietnam War, US troops faced this guerilla force which supported communist leader Ho Chi Minh.
Vietcong
A victory for the colonists at this location was vital in convincing the French to offer their support for American independence.
Saratoga
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, which required only this percent of voters in each state to pledge loyalty to the Union, came as a disappointment to Radical Republicans.
10%
Herbert Hoover, chair of the Food Administration, encouraged the growth of these by American families.
victory gardens
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In this Supreme Court case in 1944, the constitutionality of Japanese internment camps was upheld.
At home, this committee was formed in 1938 to investigate potentially subversive acts by private citizens and organizations.
House Un-American Activities Committee