The American Revolution
These were the names of the first battles in the American Revolution
The Battles of Lexington & Concord
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
The 13th Amendment
Civil Disobedience
These were the two cities bombed with atomic weapons.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
This doctrine aimed to stop the spread of communism.
The Truman Doctrine
This was the main goal of the Apollo program.
To land on the moon
This document explained and justified the colonies’ break from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence.
This organization helped formerly enslaved people with food, jobs, and education.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This was the main method of protest used on Montgomery buses in 1955.
Boycotts
This was the secret project to build the bomb.
The Manhattan Project
This metaphor described the division between East and West Europe.
The Iron Curtain
What was the first spacecraft to orbit Earth?
Sputnik
This act placed a tax on paper goods in the colonies.
The Stamp Act
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
The 14th Amendment
This protest strategy involved sitting at segregated lunch counters.
Sit-ins
He was the U.S. president when the atomic bombs were dropped.
Harry S. Truman
This alliance was created to counter NATO.
The Warsaw Pact
He was the first American in space.
Alan Shepard
This treaty officially ended the American Revolution.
The Treaty of Paris (1783).
This court case legalized “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
This student-led organization helped organize protests and register voters.
SNCC
These are two reasons the U.S. gave for using the atomic bomb.
To force the Japanese surrender and prevent the casualties of a land invasion.
This event involved flying supplies into West Berlin after a Soviet blockade.
The Berlin Airlift
This was the name of the rocket that carried Apollo 11.
Saturn V
Revolutionary forces faced cold, disease, starvation, and lack of supplies at this encampment.
Valley Forge, PA
This compromise ended Reconstruction and led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
The Compromise of 1877
This march helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Selma to Montgomery
This is the reason some historians think the bombs were dropped.
To prevent the USSR from a land invasion and forcing the US to split the territory of Japan with them.
This policy was used to prevent the spread of communism.
Containment
These were the three astronauts on Apollo 11.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
What are two major ways women aided in the revolutionary effort?
Nursing & Spying
This term refers to denying people the right to vote through poll taxes and literacy tests.
Disenfranchisement
This law banned discrimination in public places and employment.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This was the forced famine and subsequent genocide committed by Stalin in the Ukraine in 1932.
The Holodomor
This competition led both superpowers to build massive nuclear arsenals.
The Arms Race
A manufacturing malfunction led to this catastrophic event on Apollo 13.
One of the oxygen tanks exploded