U.S. Constitution & Declaration of Independence
Prohibits government from depriving citizens of life, liberty and property without due process of law.
What is the 5th Amendment?
The War to End All Wars, The Great War
What is WWI?
Japanese suicide pilots that flew their planes into American ships.
What is a kamikaze?
September 1, 1939
What is the Beginning of WWII when Germany invaded Poland?
Claimed that all men are born and remain equal.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
The chief executive and representatives are democratically elected by the people, and the rules are set down in a written constitution.
What is a Constitutional Republic?
Great Britain, France, Russia and eventually the United States of America.
Who were the Allies?
Living Room or Space, reason given by Hitler for German territorial expansion.
What is lebensraum?
“A date that will live in infamy” when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor which forced the United States into WWII.
What is December 7, 1941?
Age of Reason, an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What was the Enlightenment?
Took Age of Reason ideas and helped craft our own Enlightenment- known as the American Enlightenment- in writing the United States Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
Who were the Central Powers?
USA strategy of staying out of WWII.
What is isolationism?
Far right totalitarian ultra-nationalism led by a dictator of forced suppression.
What is Fascism?
Lasted from 1945 to 1989 between the USA and USSR.
What is the Cold War?
Protects the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is Capitalism?
Lightning Warfare. Germany’s way of concentrated attacks using luftwaffe bombers, artillery, tanks and soldiers.
What is blitzkrieg?
May 8, 1945
What is V.E. Day?
USA strategy of preventing communism from spreading during the Cold War.
What is containment?
Protects Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Far left totalitarian government by a dictator of forced suppression where the government owns the means of production and doesn’t recognize unalienable rights.
What is communism?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
What is genocide?
Operation Overlord. The Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
What is June 6, 1944?
Radical Islamist terrorists hi-jacked American passenger jets and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City murdering nearly 3,000 people.
What is September 11, 2001?