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PC-Prep Work 04 -SS

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Great Plains/Dust Bowl   westward expansion; flatlands; they believed that it was barren but then later it became fertil by becoming the breadbasket.  
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Pearl Harbor   Japanese bombarded it surprisingly on December 7,1939 which caused the US to come into war. the Japanese did not succede into to taking control over it  
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London, England   This is the captial city which in the Battle of Britain it was destroyed by the Luftwaffe  
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Russia   Changed sides during the war; First allied with Germany then the US because Germany betrayed them. US was scared of Russia since it was communistic and so would start the Cold War  
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Korea   this was where chemical weaponry was first and lastly used during the Cold War  
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Washington,D.C.   It was the Nation's capital; on the 100th Aniversery of the Emancipation Proclamtion in which there was a very fanous march there in which Marin Luther King encouraged many civil right leaders  
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Ellis Island, New York   this was where most immigrants came through to work in the US  
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Montgomery , AL   Center of Civil Rights Movement;  
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Midway Island   This was where a crucial battle in the Pacific Theater; and the refueling spot for American ships  
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New Orleans, LA   Major Port for the US  
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Harlem, New York   this was the Renassaince which produced many new works and styles of art  
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Promontory Point, Utah   this was the exact place where the Transontinental Railroad met; (Mrs.Burke went there)  
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Vietnam   This was the last major war that the US took part in.  
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Germany   Hitler was the Dictator of this country in which it is famous for the Holocaust  
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Wounded Knee, South Dakota   This was the battle that determined the ending of the Native Americans exsistance ; Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were killed at  
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Italy   Not very strong governmentally but strong military  
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Ethiopia   First Country that was invaded by Hitler and was not given any help  
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Hiroshima, Japan   This was the first site where the Atomic Bomb  
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Phillipines   this was a major area in the Pacific Theater  
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China   Hideki Tojo took over a part of it which was called Manchiria but then renamed Manchuko  
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Panama   this was the site of canal that connected the Pacific and Atlanic Oceans which made it easier to travel  
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Puerto Rico   one country gained from Spanish American War which is still a US territory today  
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Cuba   location of Cuban Missile Crisis, 90 miles from US which is still under dictatorship  
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Topeka, Kansas   (blank)  
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