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American History #4
Grades 9 to 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What war (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas | Spanish American War |
| Which battleship was sunk by Spain in Havana's harbor on February 15, 1898? | USS Maine |
| Who led the Rough Riders, a group of American volunteers and soldiers in the Spanish-American War? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The war originated in the ________ struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. | Cuban |
| Spain's brutally repressive measures where exaggerated by the American _________. | press |
| What battle is best known in the Spanish American War? | The Battle of San Juan Hill |
| Exaggeration of news stories | yellow journalism |
| Which two states were admitted to the Union in 1959? | Alaska and Hawaii |
| Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States | Allies of WWI |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) | Central Powers of WWI |
| WWI was triggered by the assassination of __________________, | Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Serbia |
| German submarines | U-boats |
| The United States entered WWI in 1917 because the Germans sank the ____________ in 1915. | Lusitana |
| What did the other countries of the world do to punish the German people for WWI? | forced them to pay a huge war reparation that devalued its currency |
| WWI was a different war because most of the war was fought in ___________. | trenches |
| The land between the Allied and Central Power's trenches was called __ ______ ______. | no man's land |
| Who was president during WWI? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Proposed by Woodrow Wilson to keep peace among the nations of the world | League of Nations |
| Not getting involved with or in the quarrels of other nations | isolationalism |
| Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during WWI? | David Lloyd George |
| Who was the king of Germany during WWI? | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| Last czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
| What happened to the last czar of Russia and his family? | murdered by Bolsheviks, a revolutionary party |
| When did women obtain the right to vote? | 1920 |
| The right to vote | suffrage |
| Where was the First Women's Rights Convention? | Seneca Falls, New York |
| Which amendment guaranteed women the right to vote? | 19th |
| First woman to be elected to Congress | Jeannette Rankin of Montana |
| Suffragettes | Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone |
| Nickname for the 1920s | Roaring Twenties |
| What habits developed in the 1920s that led to the Great Depression? | buying on credit and putting life savings in the stock market |
| When did the Stock Market crash? | 1929 |
| Facts of the Great Depression | Billions lost in the stock market on Black Tuesday, over 5,000 banks closed between 1929 and 1931, and more than 12 million people lost their jobs (1 of every 3 workers) |
| Block lengths of people waiting for food during the Great Depression | Bread lines and soup lines |
| What was Franklin Roosevelt's plan to ease the problems of the Great Depression? | the New Deal |
| What medium did Franklin Roosevelt use to convey his fireside chats to the American public? | radio |
| Part of the New Deal that provided government funds for constructing buildings and to hire writers and artists | WPA (Works Progress Administration) |
| Part of the New Deal that gave 25 million young men work in environmental improvement projects | CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) |
| Part of the New Deal that provided government funds for widows and orphans, the elderly, and those injured in industrial accidents | Social Security |
| How many times was Franklin Roosevelt elected as president? | 4 |
| Allies in WWII | Great Britain, China, France, Soviet Union, United States |
| Axis Powers in WWII | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Nazi leader of Germany in WWII | Adolph Hitler |
| Leader of Italy in WWII | Benito Mussolini |
| Leader of Japan in WWII | Emperor Hirohito |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain in WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Ruler of the Soviet Union in WWII | Josef Stalin |
| Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in WWII | Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas |
| President that gave the order to drop the atomic bombs on Japan | Harry S. Truman of Missouri |
| On which Japanese cities did the USA drop atomic bombs? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What act by the Japanese forced the USA into WWII? | Bombing of Pearl Harbor and |
| Where were Jews and other "undesirables" taken by the Nazis? | concentration camps |
| How many Jews did Hitler exterminate? | 6 million (40% of the world's Jewish population) |
| Besides the Jews, what other people did Hitler exterminate? | Gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, and political opponents |
| Who developed the Theory of Relativity? | Albert Einstein |
| What was the name of the top-secret atomic bomb plan initiated by Albert Einstein? | Manhattan Project |
| Who led the Manhattan Project? | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Who led the U. S. forces in the in the Pacific during WWII and was fired by President Harry S Truman for not following orders? | Douglas MacArthur |
| Who was the lieutenant in WWII of PT109, a patrol torpedo boat, that was sunk by a Japanese destroyer? | John F. Kennedy |
| How many crewmen did John F. Kennedy save when PT109 was sunk? | all but 2 |
| What organization was founded in 1945 to maintain world peace and security? | United Nations |
| What was the "war" that developed after WWII between the democratic nations of the world and the nations allied with the Soviet Union? | The Cold War |
| What was the dividing line between North and South Korea in the Korean War (1950-1953)? | 38th parallel |
| Who was the 1950's senator that accused many government workers and prominent Americans of being Communists? | Joseph McCarthy |
| Which Supreme Court decision desegregated public schools in America? | Brown vs. Board of Education |
| Who developed the polio vaccine in 1954? | Dr. Jonas Salk |
| What was the organization developed in 1955 that consisted of communist dictatorships? | Warsaw Pact |
| Who led the nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States (1956 to 1968)? | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| What was the Soviet Union's satellite launched into outer space in 1957? | Sputnik |
| When did President John F. Kennedy say, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?" | inauguration |
| What was built by the Communists to keep the East German citizens from feeling to West Germany in 1961? | Berlin Wall |
| What military attempt failed to free Cuba of Fidel Castro in 1961? | Bay of Pigs |
| What happened in 1962 when the United States discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Where was President Kennedy assassinated in 1963? | Dallas, TX |
| Which brother of President Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan? | Robert F. Kennedy |
| What was Robert Kennedy's position in his brother's cabinet? | attorney general |
| Who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968? | Earl Ray, Jr. |
| Who allegedly assassinated John F. Kennedy? | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Who were the first astronauts that walked on the moon in 1969? | Neil Armstrong and then Edwin Aldrin |
| What did Neil Armstrong say when he stepped onto the lunar surface? | One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind |
| What initiated the eventual resignation of Richard M. Nixon from the presidency? | Watergate Scandal (Republicans broke into Democratic Headquarters) |
| What was the relaxation of strained relations or tensions between Communist and non-communist countries called? | detente |
| If American troops first entered Vietnam in 1850, when did the Vietnam War end? | 1973 |
| Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973 | Roe vs. Wade |
| President Jimmy Carter got two old enemies to sign a peace treaty in 1978. Who were they? | Anwar Sadat (Egyptian president) and Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister) |
| This caused long lines at gas stations in the United States in 1973 | Oil Embargo by Arab nations because of USA's support of Israel |
| Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice? | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| The Berlin Wall fell and signaled the end of the Cold War. Which president said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" | Ronald Reagan |
| What was the United State's invasion of Kuwait and Iraq in 1991? | Desert Storm |
| In 1995, Timothy McVey bombed the Federal Building in ______ where over 200 people were killed. | Oklahoma City |
| Which two families had father and son presidents? | Adams and Bush |
| What buildings in NYC were targeted by terrorists on September 11, 2001? | Twin Towers of the World Trade Center |
| What federal building was targeted by terrorists on September 11, 2001? | Pentagon |
| The terrorists targeted another plane on September 11, 2001. Where did that plane crash? | Pennsylvania |
| How many people were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks? | 3,000 |
| Which space shuttle exploded on reentry into the atmosphere in 2003? | Columbia (all 7 astronauts were killed) |
| Which hurricane devastated Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005? | Katrina |
| When were Apple computers introduced in schools? | 1975 |
| How many presidents have been elected in the United States? | 46 |
| Who was the first woman to run as vice-president of the Untied States? | Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 |
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