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In world War II, the Axis were...
Germany, Italy and Japan
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What year did George Washington become President of the United States?
1789
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Eli Whitney invented what in 1794?
The Cotton Gin
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This crop saved Jamestown.
Tabacco
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What board game was invented during the Depression?
Monopoly
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In the second World War, the Allies consisted of...
France, Great Britain, Russia, and the USA
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Which President made history 143 years after the Emancipation Proclomation was written and why?
Barack Obama, because he was the first African-American President (2008)
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Who invented the lightning rod?
Benjamin Franklin
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Who founded Maryland in 1634?
Sir George Calvert
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Where was one of the most popular and patriotic WWII picture taken in 1945?
Iwo Jima
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These two countries “fought” in the Cold War, from 1945-1991.
USA and the USSR
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Which President was a General in World War II?
Dwight D. Eisenhower. “We will accept nothing more than total victory.”
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Where did Wilbur and Orville Wright fly their first airplane in 1903?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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What was written just before the pilgrims went ashore on Cape Cod in 1620?
The Mayflower Compact
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Who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?
Charles Lindbergh
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This event led to the War against Terror.
On September 11, 2001, Terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D. C.
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Which President was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963?
John F. Kennedy
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Who did Alexander Graham Bell make the first telephone call to?
Thomas A. Watson
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Appomattox Court House, the site where the Confederacy surrendered in 1865, is in which state?
Virginia
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Who wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense?"
Thomas Paine
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Which two cities did the US drop atomic bombs onto in 1945?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- helped end WWII
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What did Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclomation do?
It stated that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were free. (1862)
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Who invented the Personal Computer in 1976?
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
500
Seward's ice box was...
Alaska
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Who wrote the 14 Points after WWI?
Woodrow Wilson