C: Recent American History & Important Historical Events

Question 1

100. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s

Answer 1

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• (Persian) Gulf War

Question 2

101. Why did the United States enter World War I?

Answer 2

• Because Germany attacked U.S (civilian) ships
  • To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia)
  • To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria)

Question 3

102. When did all women get the right to vote?

Answer 3

• 1920
* After World War I
• (With the) 19th Amendment

Question 4

103. What was the Great Depression?

Answer 4

• Longest economic recession in modern history

Question 5

104. When did the Great Depression start?

Answer 5

• The Great Crash (1929)

* The Stock Market Crash 1929

Question 6

105. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?

Answer 6

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 7

106. Why did the United States enter World War II?

Answer 7

• (Bombing of) Pearl Harbor
* Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
• To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia) • To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)

Question 8

107. Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Name one.

Answer 8

• General during World War II
• President at the end of (during) the Korean War
* 34th president of the United States
• Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System)

Question 9

108. Who was the United States’ main rival during the Cold War?

Answer 9

• Soviet Union
• USSR
• Russia

Question 10

109. During the Cold War, what was one main concern of the United States?

Answer 10

• Communism

* Nuclear war

Question 11

110. Why did the United States enter the Korean War?

Answer 11

• To stop the spread of communism

Question 12

111. Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?

Answer 12

• To stop the spread of communism

Question 13

112. What did the civil rights movement do?

Answer 13

• Fought to end racial discrimination

Question 14

113. Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one. *

Answer 14

• Fought for civil rights

• Worked for equality for all Americans
• Worked to ensure that people would not be judged for the color of their skin, but by the content of their character

Question 15

114. Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?

Answer 15

• To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait

Question 16

115. What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States? *

Answer 16

• Terrorists attacked the United States
• Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City
• Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington
• Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington DC and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania

Question 17

116. Name one US military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks

Answer 17

• (Global) War on Terror
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq

Question 18

117. Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

Answer 18

• Apache
* Blakfeet
• Cayuga
 Cheyenne 
• Chippewa 
• Choctaw
* Cherokee
• Crow
• Hopi
• Huron
• Inupiat
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• Mohegan • Navajo
• Oneida
• Onondaga • Pueblo
• Seminole • Seneca
• Shawnee • Sioux
• Teton
• Tuscarora

Question 19

118. Name one example of an American innovation.

Answer 19

• Light bulb
• Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine) 
* Skyscrapers 
• Airplane
• Assembly line
• Landing on the moon
• Integrated circuit (IC)