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“A Day that will live in infamy”
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What is Pearl Harbor?
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This Act that was passed by congress, authorized the allocation of resources and weapons to European nations during WWII
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What is the Lend-Lease Act?
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The turning point of the pacific theater during WWII
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What is the Battle of Midway?
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The systematic murder by the Nazis of Jews and others who were considered undesirable is known as the?
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What is the Holocaust?
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President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima because?
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What is end the war as quickly as possible and/or save American lives
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Reporters who exposed injustices and ills of society, industry, and government
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What are Muckrakers?
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This president led the charge for reform in response to political and corporate abuses at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
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Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
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In 1913, the 16 th Amendment gave congress the authority to tax what?
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What is income?
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This 1890 Act was the governments first measure to eliminate trusts
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What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
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Signed into law by President Wilson, the 19 th Amendment gave women what?
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What is the Right to Vote
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The Vietnam War was a result of Truman’s idea of what?
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What is Containment?
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This incident authorized the president to take “all necessary measures to repel armed attack”
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What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
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U.S. President at the start of the Vietnam War?
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Who was LBJ?
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Major offensive mounted by the Vietcong
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What was the Tet Offensive?
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Tragic event that took the lives of over 300 unarmed civilians, including women and children
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What was the Mai Lai Massacre?
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The 18 th Amendment
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What was Prohibition?
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During the 1920’s, this segment of society migrated in large numbers from the rural South to major cities
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What were African Americans?
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Excessive use of this new way to purchase goods contributed to the Great Depression?
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What is credit?
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The increased recognition of African-American writers and musicians
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What is the Harlem Renaissance?
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Young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things,
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Who were Flappers?
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The election of this man in 1860 was another cause for the Civil War
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Who was Abe Lincoln
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This battle in Pennsylvania is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War
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What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
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President Lincoln’s primary goal at the start of the Civil War was?
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What is to preserve the Union?
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This march left a path of destruction throughout the South and a death blow to the Confederacy’s will and ability to fight.
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What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
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President of the Confederate States of America.
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
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