United States History

Us History

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  1. Complete the sentence about United Nations with the correct year: When World War II broke out in ______, the League effectively closed down.
  2. Complete the sentence about United Nations with the correct year: The first step towards the establishment of the United Nations was the Inter-Allied Conference in London that led to the Declaration o…
  3. Complete the sentence about United Nations with the correct year: Roosevelt and Churchill met at the White House in December ______ for the Arcadia Conference.
  4. Complete the sentence about United States Navy with the correct year: The Naval Act of ______ provided for constructing six heavy frigates, the first ships of the Navy, in the prelude to the Barbary W…
  5. Complete the sentence about United States Army with the correct year: Following the Cold War's end in ______, Army has focused primarily on Western Asia and counterinsurgency roles, including the Gulf…
  6. Complete the sentence about United States Marine Corps with the correct year: The Marine Corps has been part of the United States Department of the Navy since 30 June ______, along with its sister ser…
  7. Complete the sentence about United States Marine Corps with the correct year: As outlined in 10 U.S.C. § 5063 and as originally introduced under the National Security Act of ______, the three primary…
  8. Complete the sentence about United States Marine Corps with the correct year: In ______, the House of Representatives' Armed Services Committee called the clause "one of the most important statutory –…
  9. Complete the sentence about Central Intelligence Agency with the correct year: The Central Intelligence Agency Act of ______ exempted the agency from most Congressional oversight, and during the 1950s…
  10. Complete the sentence about Central Intelligence Agency with the correct year: Material supplied by double agent, "Hero", Oleg Penkovsky was used by the agency in the early ______'s.
  11. Complete the sentence about Federal Bureau of Investigation with the correct year: The FBI was established in ______ as the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI or BI for short.
  12. Complete the sentence about Federal Bureau of Investigation with the correct year: In ______, the National Bureau of Criminal Identification was founded, providing agencies across the country with inf…
  13. Complete the sentence about Federal Bureau of Investigation with the correct year: The ______ assassination of President William McKinley created a perception that the United States was under threat f…
  14. Complete the sentence about Federal Bureau of Investigation with the correct year: The Justice Department had been tasked with the regulation of interstate commerce since ______, though it lacked the…
  15. Complete the sentence about Department of Defense with the correct year: Congress on 4 March ______, legislation to create a military defense force stagnated as they focused on other concerns relevant…
  16. Complete the sentence about Department of Defense with the correct year: Finally, on the last day of the session, 29 September ______, Congress created the War Department.
  17. Complete the sentence about Department of Defense with the correct year: The War Department handled naval affairs until Congress created the Navy Department in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Department of Defense with the correct year: In a special message to the Congress on 19 December ______, the president cited wasteful military spending and interdepartmenta…
  19. Complete the sentence about Internal Revenue Service with the correct year: In ______, the agency was renamed the Internal Revenue Service, and in subsequent decades underwent numerous reforms and reo…
  20. Complete the sentence about Internal Revenue Service with the correct year: The Revenue Act of ______ was passed as an emergency and temporary war-time tax.
  21. Complete the sentence about Social Security with the correct year: The Social Security Act was passed in ______, and the existing version of the Act, as amended, encompasses several social welfare and…
  22. Complete the sentence about Medicare with the correct year: In ______, Medicare provided health insurance for 65.0 million individuals—more than 57 million people aged 65 and older and about 8 million…
  23. Complete the sentence about Medicare with the correct year: Eisenhower held the first White House Conference on Aging in January ______, in which creating a health care program for social security ben…
  24. Complete the sentence about Medicaid with the correct year: Medicaid was established by the Social Security Amendments of ______ as part of the Great Society set of programs that formed the policy age…
  25. Complete the sentence about Medicaid with the correct year: The Social Security Amendments of ______ created Medicaid by adding Title XIX to the Social Security Act.
  26. Complete the sentence about Federal Communications Commission with the correct year: The FCC was established pursuant to the Communications Act of ______ to replace the radio regulation functions of t…
  27. Complete the sentence about Federal Communications Commission with the correct year: Construction of the Portals building was scheduled to begin on March 1, ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Federal Communications Commission with the correct year: On February 26, ______, President Franklin Roosevelt recommended the creation of the Federal Communications Commiss…
  29. Complete the sentence about Guantanamo Bay detention camp with the correct year: By May ______, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had grown into a larger and permanent facility that housed over 680 pr…
  30. Complete the sentence about Guantanamo Bay detention camp with the correct year: As early as ______, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned of "deterioration in the psychological health o…
  31. Complete the sentence about Iran hostage crisis with the correct year: After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Pahlavi h…
  32. Complete the sentence about Iran hostage crisis with the correct year: Six American diplomats who had evaded capture were rescued by the "Canadian Caper" on January 27, ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Iran hostage crisis with the correct year: As Iran hostage crisis negotiations dragged out and did not secure the release of the remaining hostages, Carter approved Operati…
  34. Complete the sentence about Iran hostage crisis with the correct year: Political analysts cited the standoff as a major factor in the downfall of Carter's presidency, culminating in his landslide loss…
  35. Complete the sentence about Gulf War with the correct year: On 24 February ______, the coalition launched a decisive ground assault liberating Kuwait and promptly advancing into Iraqi territory.
  36. Complete the sentence about Gulf War with the correct year: In the war's aftermath, the Iraqi government suppressed a series of uprisings until 5 April ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Pentagon Papers with the correct year: Released by Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, it was made public on the front page of The New York Times starting on June…
  38. Complete the sentence about Pentagon Papers with the correct year: A ______ article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B.
  39. Complete the sentence about Pentagon Papers with the correct year: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara created the Vietnam Study Task Force on June 17, ______, for the purpose of writing an "encyclop…
  40. Complete the sentence about Pentagon Papers with the correct year: Kennedy, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Roe v. Wade with the correct year: In ______, Connecticut passed the first state statute legislating abortion in the United States; it forbade the use of poisons in abortio…
  42. Complete the sentence about Miranda v. Arizona with the correct year: In ______ Legal Aid in the United States, a report in the Survey of the Legal Profession series, was published by the American Bar…
  43. Complete the sentence about Miranda v. Arizona with the correct year: Miranda was stabbed to death during an argument in a bar on January 31, ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Gideon v. Wainwright with the correct year: Between midnight and 8:00 a.m. on June 3, ______, a burglary occurred at the Bay Harbor Pool Room in Panama City, Florida.
  45. Complete the sentence about Obergefell v. Hodges with the correct year: April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse held a commitment ceremony in February ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about United States dollar with the correct year: The Gold Standard Act of ______ linked the dollar solely to gold.
  47. Complete the sentence about Great Seal of the United States with the correct year: Declaration of Independence, ______, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid.
  48. Complete the sentence about Great Seal of the United States with the correct year: Since ______, both sides of the Great Seal have appeared on the reverse of the one-dollar bill.
  49. Complete the sentence about Great Seal of the United States with the correct year: The current rendering of the reverse was made by Teagle & Little of Norfolk, Virginia, in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Flag of the United States with the correct year: The flag exploded in popularity in ______ as a symbol of opposition to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.
  51. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The last adjustment was made in ______, following the admission of Hawaii.
  52. Complete the sentence about Flag of the United States with the correct year: The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4, ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Pledge of Allegiance with the correct year: Bellamy's version of the pledge, though his authorship of it is contested, is largely the same as the one formally adopted by Co…
  54. Complete the sentence about Pledge of Allegiance with the correct year: The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Pledge of Allegiance with the correct year: Upham, who wrote the September 8, ______, article; Keating represented New York's 38th congressional district, which included Be…
  56. Complete the sentence about Francis Scott Key with the correct year: Key owned slaves from ______, during which time abolitionists ridiculed his words, claiming that America was more like the "Land of…
  57. Complete the sentence about Francis Scott Key with the correct year: John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in ______ and read law under his uncle Philip Barton Key who was loyal to the British Crown du…
  58. Complete the sentence about Uncle Sam with the correct year: According to legend, the character came into use during the War of ______ and may have been named after Samuel Wilson, but the true origin…
  59. Complete the sentence about Uncle Sam with the correct year: With the American Revolutionary War of ______ came Brother Jonathan, a male personification.
  60. Complete the sentence about Uncle Sam with the correct year: Brother Jonathan saw full literary development into the personification of American national character through the ______ novel Brother Jon…
  61. Complete the sentence about Uncle Sam with the correct year: Additionally, the earliest known mention definitely referring to the metaphorical Uncle Sam is from ______, predating Wilson's contract wit…
  62. Complete the sentence about Fourth of July with the correct year: The second day of July ______, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America.
  63. Complete the sentence about Fourth of July with the correct year: Most historians have concluded that the Declaration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, ______, and not on July…
  64. Complete the sentence about Fourth of July with the correct year: The only U.S. president to have been born on Independence Day was Calvin Coolidge, who was born on July 4, ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Thanksgiving with the correct year: The first recorded "Thanksgiving" in North America occurred in ______ in Nunavut, held by Sir Martin Frobisher and his crew.
  66. Complete the sentence about Thanksgiving with the correct year: Augustine, Florida, was founded with a shared thanksgiving meal on September 8, ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Thanksgiving with the correct year: On December 4, ______, 38 English settlers celebrated a thanksgiving immediately upon landing at Berkeley Hundred, Charles City.
  68. Complete the sentence about Memorial Day with the correct year: The first national observance of what would become Memorial Day occurred on May 30, ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Memorial Day with the correct year: Official recognition as a holiday spread among the states, beginning with New York in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Memorial Day with the correct year: On April 26, ______, in Jackson, Mississippi, Sue Landon Vaughan decorated the graves of Confederate and Union soldiers, according to he…
  71. Complete the sentence about Labor Day with the correct year: International Workers' Day commemorates the ______ Haymarket affair in Chicago, when there was a general strike for the eight-hour workday.
  72. Complete the sentence about Labor Day with the correct year: The first march for an eight-hour day by the labour movement occurred in Melbourne on 21 April ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the correct year: The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Veterans Day with the correct year: Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of ______ when the Armistice wit…
  75. Complete the sentence about Veterans Day with the correct year: At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Veterans Day with the correct year: President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in ______ as the driving force for the nationa…
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Second Continental Congress? The Second Continental Congress succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, also in…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Assassination of John F. Kennedy? Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through ______…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Texas Revolution? On March 31, ______ paused his men at Groce's Landing on the Brazos River, and for the next two weeks, the Texians received rigorous militar…
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Texas Revolution? On April 21, ______'s army staged a surprise assault on Santa Anna and his vanguard force at the Battle of San Jacinto.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of the Alamo? On February 23, approximately 1,500 Mexicans marched into ______ de Béxar as the first step in a campaign to retake Texas.

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