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Was also known as “ The Great War”. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Started June of 1914 |
World War I (WWI) |
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France, Britain, Russia, United States |
Allied powers of WWI |
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Austria Hungary, Germany, ottoman empire, Bulgaria |
Central Powers of WWI |
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Global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The conflict involved at the vast majority of the worlds nations, including all the super powers. |
World War II |
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Great Britain, Soviet union, United States, China |
Allied powers of World War II |
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Germany, Italy, Japan |
Axis powers of World War II |
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What event launched the United States and the Soviet union into the space race in the 1950s? |
Russia launch sputnik into space in 1957, US amps up in space program, Kennedy wants to beat rush her to the moon |
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In what year does the US land on the moon? |
1969 |
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The decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal “. |
Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 |
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The decision declaring state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned Plessy vs Ferguson decision of 1896. |
Brown vs Board of Education 1954 |
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The decision outline discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The decision prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, appointments, and public accommodations. |
Civil rights act of 1964 |
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What did the Greeks contribute to the world? |
Democracy |
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What did china contribute to the world? |
Porcelain |
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What did India contribute to the world? |
Spices |
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What did Mesopotamia contribute to the world,? |
Irrigation |
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What did Rome contribute to the world? |
Roads |
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Seven ancient wonders of the world |
Great pyramid at Giza Egypt, hanging Gardens of Babylon, statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse at Alexandria Egypt. |
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This treaty was signed on September 17 between United States treaty commissioners and representatives of the several Native American tribes. The government solution was to assign each tribe a defined territory, where they were to remain. - reservations. |
The Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 |
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Between Soviets and US, who can get its nuclear program going first. |
The arms race |
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Which invention hit the scene shortly after the end of World War II, this greatly influenced American culture. |
The television |
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What essentially dragged the United States into World War II? |
Japan bombing Pearl Harbor |
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Which president drop the atomic bomb on Japan? |
President Truman |
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This president ran form1933 to 1945, a democrat who won four presidential elections. He created the (new deal), and it was his program for relief, recovery, reform after the Great Depression. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR |
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A 17th century Englishman who redefined the nature of government, he was the most important influence to shape the founding of the United States, according to the Englishman, A ruler gains authority through the consent of the governed. The duty of that government is to protect the natural rights of the people which are, life, liberty, and property. |
John Locke |
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One of the founding fathers of the United States. He was not there, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientists, inventor, specific activist, statesman, and diplomat. Not a senator or president. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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He created the first published political cartoon, and created the lightning round, and bifocals |
Benjamin Franklin |
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An American abolitionist who wrote uncle Tom’s cabin. You’re not with the pics the harsh life of African-Americans. This book helps feel the abolitionist movement to end slavery |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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An American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. |
Susan B. Anthony |
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Why did kings want their castle to be located near natural barriers like mountains? |
Natural barriers provide the kings protection from invading armies |
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It is the oldest city in the US, founded in 1565 by the Spanish. Ponce De Leon, a Spanish conquistador, was looking for gold and other resources. |
Saint Augustine, Florida |
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What was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas? it is America’s first colony. |
Jamestown settlement in the colony of Virginia |
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The Fort Laramie Treaty was broken by the United States government when what was discovered? This caused the US to seize back land and push Native Americans farther into isolated territories. |
Gold was discovered on the land. |
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What did Europeans bring over with them to the New World, causing millions of native Americans to die? |
Diseases |
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With the belief in the United States that it’s settlers were destined to expand across North America and have the right to conquer and settle anywhere from the east to the west coast. |
Manifest destiny |
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The Europeans weren’t able to defeat the Native Americans by going to battle with them. What circumstance how did the Europeans defeat the Native Americans and conquer their land? |
Europeans brought disease, which killed of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans |
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Is the spread of cultural believes and social activities from one group to another |
Cultural diffusion |
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African American slaves were brought to aid in the production of ____ and ____ . |
Tobacco and cotton |
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The war was fought in the United States between the confederate south and the union north and was a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery and states right. The confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and formulating slaves were freed |
The American Civil War |
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863, changing the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the south from slave to free. |
Emancipation proclamation |
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Which of the following is attribute it to Henry Ford’s assembly line? |
Increased production |
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What did the industrial revolution cause In the factories? |
Immigrant workforce increased in the factories |
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What was the main factor in the Spanish conquering the Incas and Aztecs? |
Disease |
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How did the industrial revolution begin in Europe? |
Textiles |
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This president is famous for addressing the American people referring to the bombing of Pearl Harbor as, “ A date which will live in infamy”. |
Franklin Roosevelt |
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The Antarctic treaty was created because Antarctica is the only inhabited part of the word. What did the aunt arctic treaty outline? |
Forbids drilling for oil or colonization of Antarctica |
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Which was the first self governing document in the American colonies? |
The Mayflower compact |