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Western Expansion
Gilded Age
WW 1
WW2
Cold Era
100
When people moved westward in hopes of striking it rich.
What is the gold rush?
100
Boss Tweed exchanged social services for votes.
What did the political bosses want? Name one.
100
Why did World War 1 WW1 begin?
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
100
W.W. II began because Germany invaded Poland which upset the world.
How did World War 2 (W.W. II) begin?
100
U.S. (democracy) Soviet Union U.S.S.R. (Communist)
What two nations are involved with the Cold War and name their type of government?
200
The belief that the U.S. should expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Industrialist who expanded the steel industry by destroying smaller companies.
What did Andrew Carnegie contribute to America?
200
German U-Boats sank the Lusitania ship.
Why did the U.S. get involved in W.W. 1?
200
Because Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.
Why did the U.S. join W.W. II?
200
Communism which is a type of dictatorship government.
What did the U.S. want to stop from spreading to other nations?
300
The homestead Act: 160 free acres in exchange for 5 years of farming to improve the land.
What is the deal (Act) the government gave people in order to move West?
300
Bessemer Process
What is the process of making steel?
300
Tanks, machine guns, poison gas, trench warfare, airplanes.
What technology weapons were used in W.W. 1?
300
Largest land military invasion by the U.S. to attack Germany from the West at Normandy.
What is the significance about D-Day?
300
Korean War and Vietnam War.
What were two wars that occurred to stop the spread of communism?
400
Attempted to assimilate native Americans into mainstream American culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Oil tycoon who destroyed smaller companies to monopolize the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller and what did he contribute to America?
400
Treaty of Versailles which blamed Germany for the war.
What is name of the treaty that ended W.W. 1?
400
The U.S. used 2 nuclear weapons on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to get Japan to surrender conditionally.
What type of weapons did the U.S. use to end W.W.II?
400
prevent the spread of communism using either the Marshall plan or Truman Doctrine.
What is containment?
500
Form of transportation that connected east to west crossing the Great Plains.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad and what area did it cross?
500
Rail road industry.
What did Vanderbilt create?
500
19th Amendment during the women's suffrage.
Which amendment led to women gaining the right to vote?
500
The Battle of Midway
What is the turning point of W.W. II?
500
Fall of the Berlin Wall and dismantle of the Soviet Union U.S.S.R.
How did the Cold War End?