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History final 6b
Question | Answer |
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The record of what has happened to mankind | history |
indian tribe who joined the Pilgrims for Thanksgiving | Wampanoag |
1st permenant English settlement in the New World | Jamestown |
European country that controlled the 13 original colonies | England |
Famous Virginian who gained military experience during the French & Indian War | G. Washington |
Most famous ancient S. American Indian civilization | Inca |
The "George Washington" of S. America | Simon Bolivar |
Explorer who discovered the North Pole | Robert Peary |
1st black major league baseball player | Robinson |
Special Advisor on Minority Affairs to F.D.Roosevelt | Mary Bethune |
Japanese military leader during WW11 | Tojo |
Developer of the assembly line | Ford |
Commander of WW11 Allied Powers, later president | Eisenhoward |
1st man to walk on the moon | Armstrong |
Founder of tuskegee institute | Booker T. Washington |
Developer of 285 uses for peanuts | George Washinton Carver |
Inventors of the airplane | Wilbur & Orville |
Inventor of the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
Inventor of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor of the light bulb | Thomas Edison |
Inventor of the 1st liquid fuel rocket | Robert H. Goddard |
Most famous U.S. evangelist of the 19th century | Dwight L. Moody |
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Kennedy |
1st president to resign from office | Nixon |
Pastor who led led the civil rights movement in the U.S. | Martin Luther King |
President who appointed the 1st woman Supreme Court | Ronald Reagan |
Communist leader who agreed to "perestroika" (restructing) | Gorfachar |
Most influential leisure-time invention of the 1950's | TV |
Opera singer among the most admired women of her time | Marian Anderson |
Law to ensure voting, housing, & job rights for minorities | 1664 Civil Rights Act |
U.S. president responsible for the peace treaty between Egypt & Isreal | Carter |
Operation Desert Storm was directed against this country | Iraq |
the biggest (not deepest) canyon in the U.S. | Grand Canyon |
Extremely dry region in S.America | Atacama Desert |
Capitol of Canada | Atawa |
Capital of Brazil | Brazilia |
Grassy plains region in the Temperate Zone | Prarie |
Major Mountian range in S. America | Andes |
Home to the world's largest tropical rain forest | Amazon River Basin |
Highest navigabal lake in S. America | Titicaca |
The Chinese Christian leader, Chaig Kai-Shek | WW11 |
"Remember the Maine!" | Spanish American War |
Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield | Civil War |
Archduke Ferdinan's assassination | WW1 |
Fascist Italian leader, Benito Mussolini | WW11 |
The Emancipation Proclamation | Civil War |
German Kaiser Wilhelm 11 | WW1 |
The bombing of Pearl Harbor | WW11 |
President Woodrow Wilson | WW1 |
President Franklin D.Roosevelt | WW11 |
The Zimmerman Note | WW1 |
Nazi German leader, Adolf Hitler | WW11 |
The Battle of Gettysburg | Civil War |
General Tojo of Japan | WW11 |
the 1st use of atomic bombs | WW11 |
Communist leader, Joseph Stalin | WW11 |
the rough riders | Spanish American War |
Emporer Hirohito of Japan | WW11 |
American patriot who said "i only regret that i have but one life to loose for my country" | Nathan Hale |
Islamic terrorist group responsible for attacks including the attack of september 11, 2001 | Alchada |
a person who wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values | Conservitive |
Virginian who said, "give me liberty or give me death!" | Patrick Henry |
two countries where U.S. military attacked terrorists in the "War on Terror" | Iraq Afganastan |
date that the Armistice ending WW1 was signed | 11-11-1918 |
the name for the day on which WW11 ended in Europe | V.E. Day |