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Question | Answer |
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What was the Holocaust? | Systematic Attempt to rid Europe of all Jews |
What was the Manhattan Project? | WWII project to develop the first nuclear weapons. |
Name the director of the Manhattan Project. | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
What court case desegregated schools and overturned Plessy V Ferguson? | Brown v. Board of Education |
Who were the Freedom Riders? | Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses from the North to the South to test a Supreme Court ruling Outlawing segregation on interstate transportation. |
Who gave a famous speech and said "I have a dream"? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
Who was Benito Mussolini? | Fascist dictator of Italy |
What is globalization? | The linking of nations through trade, information, technologies and communications |
In what field did Charles Drew have a major influence? | Science (medicine) |
What caused the Japanese to surrender at the end of WWII | The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Who started a settlement house called Hull House? | Jane Addams |
What did Frederick Douglass do? | A strong voice for human rights and civil liberties for all. |
?the carpetbaggers? | Northerners who went South after the Civil War for politial and or financial advantage. |
Name the 3 states of the Pacific Region | Washington, Oregano, California |
When did Reconstruction end? | After the 1876 election and the withdrawal of Federal troops in 1877. |
What document advocated a "Big Stick Diplomacy" that was used while building the Panama Canal. | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
What city was the center of the auto industry? | Detroit |
What city was the center of the steel industry? | Pittsburgh |
Did the United States join the League of Nations? | No |
What invention helped Americans have great mobility - including the ability to move to the suburbs | the automobile |
When wood wasn't available, settlers on the Great Plains used this to build houses. | Sod |
Who was the inventor of lighting and expanded uses for electricity? | Thomas Edison |
Alexander Graham bell | Whose inventions enabled telephone services |
Who had a Reconstruction plan for the North and South to reconcile with emphasis on preserving the Union? | Abraham Lincoln |