Social Studies Prep Work for 2004
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| Great Plains/Dust Bowl | flatlands; westward expansion; believed to be barren desert but soon became breadbasket
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| Pearl Harbor, Hawaii | bombed by Japan, December 7, 1939; brought America fully into the war
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| London, England | capital city, destroyed by Luftwaffe over Battle of Britain
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| Russia | communistic, first allied with Germany, but then on the Allied side
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| Korea | war where chemical weaponry was first and lastly used
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| Washington, D.C. | capital of the U.S.
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| Ellis Island, New York | where most immigrants came to the US through
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| Montgomery, AL | center of Civil Rights Movement
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| Midway Island | refueling spot won through the Spanish American War
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| New Orleans, LA | major port for the US
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| Harlem, New York | renassaince which produced mony new works and styles of art
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| Promontory Point, Utah | where the Transcontinental Railroad met
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| Vietnam | last major war ths US took part in
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| Germany | location of the Holocaust; Hitler
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| Wounded Knee, South Dakota | final battle of the Native Americans
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| Italy | not very strong governmentally but strong military
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| Ethiopia | first country invaded in WWII
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| France | first Ally captured by Germany
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| Hiroshima, Japan | first landing site of the atom bomb
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| Phillipines | major theater for Japan in WWII
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| China | easily taken over by Japan but never captured
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| Panama | site of canal connecting Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
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| Puerto Rico | one country gained from Spanish American War
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| Cuba | location of Cuban Missile Crisis, 90 miles fromUS
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| Topeka, Kansas | Mrs. Burke's hometown
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