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1. November 11
2. the day World War 1 ended
3. we remember all Americans who have served in the Armed Forces |
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| 2 important things the Supreme Court removed from public schools in the 1960s |
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1. prayer
2. Bible reading |
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| George W. Bush was President |
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| President Johnson committed the U.S. to heavy involvement |
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| President Reagan sent American troops to liberate this country in 1983 |
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| President shot and killed while traveling in a motorcade in downtown Dallas |
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| President who began the Interstate Highway System |
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| Winston Churchill was Prime Minister |
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| Saddam Hussein was removed from power |
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| Theodore Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill |
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| a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union |
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| a land that is too dry or too cold to grow many plants |
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| a lowland between the hills or mountains |
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| Woodrow Wilson was President |
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| came to an end because of President Kennedy's naval blockade |
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| city especially devastated by Hurricane Katrina |
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| first black Supreme Court Justice |
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| country Saddam Hussein invaded in 1990 |
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| declared by President George W. Bush on September 11, 2001, after terrorists attacked the U.S. by hijacking planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon |
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| destroyed insects to help the builders of the Panama Canal |
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| first American President ever to resign from office |
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| first American to orbit the earth |
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| Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait |
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| first American to travel in space |
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| Kaiser Wilhelm II was leader of Germany |
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| first Japanese American to serve in Congress |
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| first black Supreme Court justice |
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| the only President to ever resign from office |
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| first black man to become a part of the President's cabinet |
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| first man to walk on the surface of the moon |
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| President Reagan sent American troops to liberate this island from Communism |
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| first woman justice of the Supreme Court |
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| known as the Great Communicator |
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| man who gave a famous speech about civil rights and influenced political leaders to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
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| schoolteacher who died in the Challenger explosion |
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| shot and killed while traveling in a motorcade through downtown Dallas |
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| the Communist dictator who took control of Cuba in 1959 |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| the Supreme Court ruled that schools should no longer be segregated |
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| the belief that Communism should be stopped before it can attack and enslave a country |
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| the country that sold Alaska to the United States |
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| the shortest war in United States history |
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| the day on which the worst terrorist attack in American history occurred |
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| the dictator whose armies invaded Kuwait in 1990 |
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| the elevation or height above sea level |
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| the first man to walk on the moon |
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| the first war after World War 2 |
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| the first woman justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court |
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| two atomic bombs were dropped |
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| the leader of al Qaeda who was responsible for the worst terrorist attack in American history |
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| the leaders of the Soviet Union wanted to control the world by spreading ____ |
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| the long conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States |
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| the man who convinced the United States government to purchase Alaska |
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| the president who withdrew troops from Vietnam |
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| the storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005 |
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| the belief that Communism should be stopped before it could attack and enslave a country |
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| the war in which Saddam Hussein was captured by American troops |
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| the words added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 |
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| this war ended on November 11, 1918 |
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