ABC'S

A-ATOM BOMB

• Worlds first WMD
• Ended WW2

B-BOSTON MASSACRE

• 5 people killed
• Started the revolutionary war

C-CONSTITUTION

• Wrote by James Madison
• States are rights

D- D-DAY

• Storming of Normandy
• Operation overlord

E-ELI WHITNY

• Made cotton gin
• Increase in slave labor

F-FOURTEEN POINTS

• Made by Woodrow Wilson

G-GENOCIDE

• Extermination of the jews
• Mass executions

H-HYDROGEN BOMB

• Big advancement in nuclear weapons
• Started an arms race between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

I-IWO JIMA

• U.S. prisoners kept there
• Another island hopping spot

JULIUS AND ETHITHL ROSENBURHG

• Convinced of being communist
• Put on trial

Kansas-NEBRASKA ACT

• Started bleeding Kansas
• Rejected Missouri compromise

L- LEND-LEASE ACT

• U.S. Gave GB supplys
• Helped out GB tremendously

M-MANIFEST DESTINY

• Westward expansion
• Free land in the west

N-NATO

• Took place of League of Nations
• Communist made Warsaw Pact

O-OKINAWA

• Part of pacific theater
• Island hopping

P-PANAMA CANNAL

• Connected Atlantic and pacific
• Increase in trade

Q-QUAKERS

• New England
• No religious tolerance

R-REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• America vs. the British
• Set us free

S-STALEMATE

• 38/30 line
• Korea

T-TRENCH WARFARE

• Used in WW1
• French tried to use it in ww2 but was wiped out buy German planes

U-U-BOAT

• The first real submarine
• Germans used unrestricted submarine warfare

V-VIETNAM

• The first war the U.S. Lost
• Protests by American citizens

W-WATERGATE

• A scandal with Richard Nixon
• Caused him to resign

X-MALCOM X

• A Muslim that sought peace
• Originally a U.S. Citizen

Y-YORKTOWN

• Turning point of the revolution
• One of the biggest battles in U.S. History

A-ZIMMERMAN NOTE

• Germans tried to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
• Promised the Mexicans their land back