ABC'S OF U.S. HISTORY

ARTICLE OF CONFEDERTION

• Established weak central govt.

forced march of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese

COMMON SENSE

• Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

D-DAY

• The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

FDR

• "A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"- FDR

GENEVA CONVENTION

• Established the standards of international law for treatment of war

HARRY S. TRUMAN

• Approved dropping of atomic bomb

INDEPENDENCE

• Reason for American Revolution

JAPAN

• Country that bombed pearl harbor

KOREAN WAR

• Ended with the division along the 38th parallel

LINCOLN

• Election prompted seven southern states to form the Confederacy

MANIFEST DESTINY

• Belief in spreading to the Pacific

NAGASAKI

• Second dropping of the atomic bomb

OKINIWA

• Largest amphibious assault in pacific war

PAINE, THOMAS

• Author of Common Sense

QUAKERS

• Also known as the society of friends

ROCKERFELLER

• Dominated the oil industy in his time

SPOILS SYSTEM

• Giving govt. jobs to supporter of party

TRAIL OF TEARS

• Part of the indian removal act passed by Jackson

USSR

• Part if the Warsaw pact
• Had non-agrresion pact with Germany

VANDERBILT

• Became wealthy from railroads and shipping

W.E.B. DuBOIS

• Founder of the NAACP

XYZ AFFAIR

• French diplomats demanded a bribe
• from U.S. diplomats

YELLOW JOURNALISM

• Exaggerations of news events

ZIMMERMAN NOTE

• Proposal from Germany for Mexico to join the Central Powers