War in the Pacific
This event on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
President of US in WWII
FDR
This wall built in 1961 divided East and West Berlin until 1989.
Berlin Wall
This document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile River
Marines raising the flag on mt. suribachi was apart of this battle
Iwo Jima
This fascist leader ruled Italy in WWII
Mussolini
This 1962 crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This planet in our solar system is known as the “Red Planet” because of iron oxide on its surface.
Mars
The U.S. strategy of capturing key islands while bypassing heavily defended ones was known by this term.
Also known as operation overlord. Surprise attack across the English channel
D-Day
US policy to stop the spread of Communism
Truman Doctrine
This 1803 land purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
This 1993 dinosaur film directed by Steven Spielberg was the first movie to widely use groundbreaking CGI to create realistic animals.
Jurassic Park
These two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic bombs in August 1945.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This 1942–1943 battle on the Eastern Front is considered the turning point of the war against Germany.
Stalingrad
Term used to describe accusing someone of being a communist with little evidence
McCarthyism
US president in WWI
Woodrow Wilson
What baseball team won the World Series last year?
The Los Angeles Dodgers
Manhattan Project, 3
This meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill where they planned D-Day and how to open a western front
Tehran Conference
The couple who was arrested and executed for espionage during the Cold War. 250 for last name another 250 for BOTH first names
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Which US president was in office during the war of 1812?
James Madison
What is Pb on the periodic table?
Lead