WWI
The assassination of this leader and his wife led to the beginning of WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
The year WWII began
1939
The Cold War was known as the war of ...
Ideas (Communism vs Democracy)
34th president of the United States who commanded the Allied Forces in WWII
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Supreme Court cases of Engel v. Vitale and Abington School District v. Schempp effectively ended these two daily routines in public schools based on the grounds of religious discrimination
Bible reading and prayer
The names assigned to the countries involved in WWI
Allied powers (Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, eventually U.S.)
Central powers (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Ottoman Empire)
The date Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan
December 7, 1941
This country sought to spread communism throughout the world during the war
Soviet Union
Government organization founded in 1958 to bring the United States into the Space Age
NASA
This act, in 1964, prohibited racial discrimination in all public places
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Name two new weapons introduced in WWI
poison gas, tanks, improved machine guns, flame throwers, hand grenades, and airplanes
The name given to the massacre of at least six million Jews by the Nazis
Holocaust
This policy pledged American support to any free nation threatened by a Communist takeover
Truman Doctrine
Young Black-American minister and civil rights leader who advocated for boycotts and peaceful protests instead of violence to promote desegregation
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vietnam War
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk led to the withdrawal of this country from WWI
Russia (this was a peace treaty between Germany and Russia)
Name the two Japanese cities where atomic bombs were dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The greatest airlift in history, in which American planes delivered food and supplies to the people in West Berlin for over a year
Berlin Airlift
JFK (John F. Kennedy)
In 1969, this NASA mission landed the first men on the moon (Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong)
Apollo 11
The consequences for Germany at the end of WWI
Loss of territory, demilitarization, and admission of guilt by paying reparations
One of the most famous photos of WWII shows Marines raising a flag on this Japanese island
Iwo Jima
Name the war in Asia where Communists from the North invaded the free people of the South, and over 33,000 American troops died defending democracy
Korean War
The first American to fly into space
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
This Supreme Court case in 1973, legalized abortion in the United States (this was finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022)
Roe v Wade