The Age of Imperialism did not promote competition amongst European powerhouses

Militarism featured growing armies and a massive build up prior to WWI

The Triple Alliance consisted of England, Germany and France

The Triple Entente later became known as the Allies

John Pershing led US troops in France during WWI

Franz Ferdinand assassinated Gavrilo Princip in 1914

The Schlieffen Plan was a smashing success.

During WWI, the Central Powers defeated the Allies

The German sinking of the Titanic would see the deaths of 128 Americans

The Sussex Pledge was made after the German attack of a French steamliner

The Zimmerman Note featured a message delivered from Mexico to Germany

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsks saw Russia drop out of WWI

The Selective Service Act was a draft during WWI

Whereas the Battles of Chateau Thiery and Belleau Wood were defensive, the Battle of Meuse Argonne was an offensive attack by the US

Whereas the War Industries Board oversaw the conversion of the economy during WWI, the Fuel Administration implemented Daylight Savings Time

Whereas the National War Labor Board encouraged the rationing of food, the Food Administration served to diffuse tension between labor and management

Robert Prager was a victim of hatred towards Germany during WWI in the US

The Espionage and Sedition Acts tested the nature of the Bill of Rights during WWI

The Great Migration would see African Americans migrating from the North to the South

Woodrow Wilson's peace plan became known as the Fourteen Points

The Big Four consisted of Germany, Russia, Austria, and Hungary

When the US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, it effectively kept the US out of the League of Nations.

Henry Cabot Lodge was the League of Nation's main supporter

The Harlem Renaissance featured of flourishing of arts, music, and literature amongst the Italian community.

Dollar Diplomacy was a product of the Roosevelt Administration

Whereas Porfirio Diaz was the ousted dictator of Mexico, his replacement, Francisco Madero would subsequently be assassinated by Victoriano Huerta

The US supported Pancho Villa over Venustiano Carranza.

The Russian Revolution led to a Red Scare in the US during the 20s

Bartolome Vanzetti was well-received in the US for his views on anarchy

The KKK only despised African Americans during the 1920s

A. Mitchell Palmer led raids on people he suspected of being radical anarchists and communists

Louis Chevrolet became the first automobile manufacturer to feature the assembly line in his production

The installment plan required a full payment for a product

Prohibition forbade the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of intoxicating liquor.

The Volstead Act allowed the distribution of alcohol for medicinal and religious purposes

Speakeasies were hidden bars that existed during Prohibition

Al Capone dominated the bootlegging scene in New York

The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment

John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

Whereas the Fundamentalists believed that man evolved from apes, the Evolutionists argued that man never evolved from another life-form

The flappers were conservative women

Babe Ruth dominated the boxing scene in the 1920s

Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Pacific

Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino were jazz musicians during the 20s and Louis Armstrong was a famous actor

Whereas F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway wrote The Great Gatsby.

Whereas Marcus Garvey was a poet of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes launched a Back to Africa movement in the 1920s

Whereas Calvin Coolidge saw the Teapot Dome Scandal unfold under his presidency, Warren G. Harding declared the business of America was business

The Stock Market Crashed on October of 1929

Borrowing money to purchase stocks became known as "on the margin" purchasing

Soup kitchens, breadlines, and shantytowns all became features of the Great Depression

Because of the Dust Bowl, Okies migrated from California to Oklahoma

During the Great Depression, Mexican immigrants would be forced to return to Mexico under a practice known as repatriation

Hoover's hesitation to call for government intervention to combat the Great Depression led to his mockery with the use of terms such as Hoovervilles and Hoover Flags

Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation provided loans to big business and banks

The Bonus Army received a portion of their retirement pension through the influence of Hoover

FDR's Bank Holiday called for a permanent closing of all banks so that new ones could take their place

FDR's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation provided a safety net for depositors

Whereas the PWA provided work for unemployed to build dams, roads and bridges, the CCC provided outdoor labor for males 18-25.

Whereas the National Recovery Act tried to get business to cooperate, the AAA paid land owner subsidies not to produce crops

Whereas Father Charles Coughlin proposed that every family receive a guaranteed income, Huey Long proposed that the elderly receive monthly payments, and France Townsend believed that banks should be nationalized

The WPA paid artists to paint murals.

The Social Security Act provided unemployment payments for those workers who were already out of work

Whereas Adolf Hitler aspired to be an artist and later became the dictator of Germany, Benito Mussolini became the dictator of Italy and Hideki Tojo became the military leader of Japan.

The Nazi Party were not elected into the German government

The Axis Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Hitler's book that outlined the domination of Europe and the destruction of the Jews became known as Mein Kampf

Under the Munich Pact, Germany appeased England and France by allowing those countries to seize the Sudetenland.

The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact allowed Germany to seize Poland without Soviet intervention

Panzers were German tanks used during a blitzkrieg attack and the Luftwaffe were German planes

As Germany attacked France, French troops decided to escape certain destruction by fleeing from the port of Dunkirk

The Battle of Britain would see German bombers attack British cities beginning in August of 1941

The US Congress tried to prevent from being trapped into a European conflict by passing a series of acts known as the Lend Lease Acts

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the US officially joined the Allies

The Bataan Death March saw the imprisonment of Filipino and US troops in the Philippines

Whereas Operation Overlord saw the British/US/Canadian troops attack German forces off the coast in France, Operation Torch saw the US and England oust the Germans from Africa

D-Day began the liberation of France from German occupation beginning of June 6, 1944

The Battle of the Bulge proved to be Germany's last offensive against Allied forces

The Final Solution described the horrific method of executing Jews during the Holocaust by means of poison gas and cremation ovens

The Battle of the Coral Sea and Midway resulted in Japanese victories in the Pacific.

The Manhattan Project culminated in the testing of the world's first atomic bomb in July of 1945

Whereas Nagasaki became the first city to suffer the wrath of the atomic bomb, Hiroshima became the second

Under Executive Order 9066, the Japanese in the western half of the United States were placed in internment camps

A. Philip Randolph threatened a march on Washington DC if Harry Truman allowed blacks by the defense industry during WWII

Braceros were Mexican laborers contracted by the US to work in the fields of the Southwest

The Zoot Suit Riots saw pachucos storm US battleships to attack unsuspecting sailors in Long Beach

Rosie the Riveter became the symbol of women who worked in the factories during WWII

Russian communism emerged towards the end of WWI with Joseph Stalin taking over the Soviet Union in 1925 who implemented a brutal reign of communism and collectivization.

At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was divided into East and West Germany and Berlin was divided likewise into East and West Berlin.

As the Soviet Union seized control of East Europe, it set up puppet states as a means to control this region.

George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and George Kennan established a policy to deter the expansion of communism; a policy that came to be known as containment.

Whereas the Truman Doctrine provided economic aid to the war torn countries of western Europe, the Marshall Plan provided economic recovery aid to the countries of Turkey and Greece

Whereas NATO was an alliance that consisted of the Soviet Union and its puppet states, the Warsaw Pact consisted of the United States and several other western nations.

The Berlin Blockade was imposed by Joseph Stalin, and the US countered this maneuver by airlifting supplies to East Berlin

Whereas Joint Chiefs of Staff features the leaders of the nation's military, the Central Intelligence Agency formed to gather information of rival countries such as the Soviet Union

During the Chinese Civil War, the communist Chiang Kai Shek removed Mao Zedong from China and forced him to flee to Taiwan.

Whereas Kim Il-Sung became the leader of the communist South Korea, Sygman Rhee became the leader of the US-supported North Korea.

Douglas MacArthur helped to maintain the boundary between North and South Korea at the 38th parallel, but was relieved of his duties for his insistence to attack the Chinese with nuclear weapons.

The House Committee of Un-American Activities questioned the loyalty of Americans to ensure they were not communists

Whereas Julius/Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of perjury and spent some time in prison, Alger Hiss was executed for providing atomic information to the Soviet Union

Joseph McCarthy began a frenzy known as McCarthyism by accusing the state department of having members that belonged to the communist party

Baby boomers were born during WWII

Beatniks such as Jack Kerouac embraced the values of a materialistic culture in the fifties

The Highway Act of 1956 led to the construction of over 40,000 miles of interstate highways

NASA launched the world's first satellite into space known as Sputnik

Whereas John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated by Jack Ruby.

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had assistance in assassinating John F. Kennedy

Whereas Medicaid provides medical care for Americans 65 and older, Medicare provides medical care for all welfare recipients.

Head Start was a preschool funding program that began under the LBJ presidency

In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the US Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the doctrine of separate but equal essentially legalized segregation

The central participants of the Brown v. Education of Topeka included Linda Brown and Thurgood Marshall

The Little Rock 9 were forbidden from enrolling at Central High School at the command of an executive order by President Eisenhower

Rosa Parks defied a bus segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955

MLK Jr. utilized the violent aggressive practices of Mohandas Gandhi to end segregation

As a form of non-violent resistance, lunch counter sit-ins featured opponents of segregation boycotting segregated restaurants

Freedom riders rode buses to locations of protest to fight against segregation

Police Chief Bull Conor ordered the protection of MLK and fellow protesters in the city of Birmingham, Alabama

In August of 1963, MLK led a huge rally in Washington DC to support the passage of a Civil Rights bill that would end segregation

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places

Whereas the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated the poll tax as a requirement for voting, the 24th Amendment eliminated literacy tests as a requirement for voting

With the assistance of the CIA, the Shah of Iran was placed back into power in 1953

Fidel Castro became the capitalist dictator of Cuba in 1959

While spying for the CIA, Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet skies, thereby ruining a peace summit between the US and the Soviet Union

JFK's Flexible Response consisted of the Peace Corps and the Green Berets

The Bay of Pigs invasion would see the successful invasion of Cuba and overthrow of Fidel Castro

In 1961, the US constructed the Berlin Wall to protect against Soviet aggression

The end to the Cuban Missile Crisis came when the Soviet Union agreed to take its missiles out of Cuba and Turkey

The leaders of the superpowers during the Cuban Missile Crisis included JFK and Nikita Khruschev

The Vietminh was an independence movement in Vietnam.

Whereas the 17th Parallel divided North and South Korea, the 38th Parallel divided North and South Vietnam

Whereas Ho Chi Minh ruled over communist North Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem ruled over the US-supported South Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed LBJ to send more soldiers to Vietnam and to implement belligerent strategies such as Operation Rolling Thunder

The My Lai Massacre saw Vietcong forces kills hundreds of unsuspecting US soldiers

The Tet Offensive was a military disaster for the Vietcong, but very successful in demoralizing US forces and leadership

Timothy Leary's was a Harvard lecturer who promoted a "Just Say No" campaign against drugs

The Watts Riot and the formation of the Black Panthers resulted from the belief that African Americans were being racially profiled by police authorities

Malcolm X had extremely negative views towards whites until he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Cesar Chavez's UFW led a strike and boycott against grape growers in Delano, California

Betty Friedan argued in her book, The Feminine Mystique, that women were completely satisfied in being housewives and homemakers

In the case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court banned the practice of abortion in all trimesters of a pregnancy

Nixon reopened relations with China by visiting this communist country in 1972.

As a result of the US supporting Israel during the October War, OPEC protested this action by sanctioning an embargo of oil shipments to the US

Jimmy Carter replaced Richard Nixon after he resigned

During the Carter Administration, the Ayatollah Khomeini replaced the Shah in 1979 and American hostages would be held in captivity in Iran

In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and would face opposition from Arab Muslims across the Middle East, including Osama bin Laden

The efforts of CREEP, the revelation of hush money by James McCord, and the discovery Nixon's conversations of a cover up on his Oval Office recordings, all led to Nixon's resignation in 1974

A key feature of Reaganomics was a significant cut in taxes

Geraldine Ferraro became the nation's first vice presidential candidate

Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Conor to become the nation's first US Supreme Court justice

Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was a program designed to protect the US from a nuclear assault

Whereas the Contras were communists in Nicaragua, the Sandinistas were anti-communists supported by the Reagan Administrators

The Iran Contra Affair was a scheme carried out by Oliver North; a scheme that involved selling weapons to Iran to free hostages and diverting the profit of that sale to the Contras

Gorbachev implemented Perestroika which resulted in the Soviet's first McDonalds and Glasnots which allowed for political openness

John Hinckley Jr attempted to assassinate Jimmy Carter in 1981

The US extradited Manuel Noriega from Panama to the US in the late 1980s

In 1990, Iraq, under the dictatorship of Sadaam Hussein, invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait

Whereas Operation Desert Shield aimed to protect against an Iraqi attack against Saudi Arabia, Operation Desert Storm (led by Norman Schwarzkopf) aimed to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait