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2. From what country did the US purchase Alaska?

3. Russia

4. What event led to the Spanish-American War?

5. The explosion of the Battleship Maine

6. How did the US acquire Puerto Rico and Guam?

7. As a result of the Spanish American War

8. What events started WW1?

9. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

10. How did the Americans help the effort at home during WW1?

11. They bought Liberty Bonds

12. What is an armistice?

13. An agreement to stop fighting

14. How did the Great Depression affect American Life?

15. It caused people to lose their jobs and homes

16. Define Genocide

17. A planned attempt to kill and entire people

18. Where did Queen Liliuokalni rule?

19. Hawaii

20. Who was the ruler of Italy in WW2?

21. Benito Mussolini

22. Who ruled The Soviet Union during WW2?

23. Joseph Stalin

24. Who led Germany during WW2?

25. Adolf Hitler

26. How did WW2 affect families?

27. Many men went to war and women stayed home to take care of businesses and homes

28. How did Teddy Roosevelt support conservation?

29. He created 5 national parks

30. What was the president who built the Panama Canal?

31. Teddy Roosevelt

32. What was the Holocaust?

33. The mass killing of European Jews

34. During the Great Depression, ______________ rose sharply.

35. Unemployment

36. Define Communism.

37. System in which the government owns all industries and property

38. What were concentration camps?

39. Camps where Hitler sent Jewish People to be killed

40. Adolf Hitler’s Political party was called the _________________

41. The National Socialist Party or the Nazi’s

42. Define Rationing

43. Limiting what people can buy

44. What happened on December 7, 1941- a Day that will live in Infamy?

45. The attacks by Japan on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

46. Why were the 1920’s called the roaring 20’s?

47. The economy was good, there was new music, movies, inventions, and industries

48. What caused the Great Depression?

49. The crash of the Stock Market in 1929

50. What was the 19 th Amendment?

51. It gave women the right to vote