1. SOCIAL STUDIES 3RD NINE WEEKS: 1933 TO 2009

2. DICTATOR OF GERMANY: ADOLFH HITLER,RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING OF OVER 6 MILLION PEOPLE DURING WWII

3. DICTATOR BENITO MUSSOLINI (ITALY) WWII – AXIS POWERS

4. EMPEROR HIROHITO: LEADER OF JAPAN DURING WWII

5. PEARL HARBOR: JAPAN ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES AT PEARL HARBOR ON DEC
PEARL HARBOR: JAPAN ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES AT PEARL HARBOR ON DEC. 7TH, AMERICA ENTERED THE WAR DAYS AFTER

6. D-DAY: THE INVASION OF NORMANDY “THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE AXIS POWERS IN WWII”

7. IWO JIMA: A FAMOUS WWII BATTLE ON A SMALL ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN

8. TUSKEGEE AIRMEN: THE FIRST GROUP OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PILOTS WHO PROTECTED BOMBERS FLYING OVER EUROPE DURIN WWII

9. ROSIE THE RIVETER: FICTIONAL CHARACTER CREATED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN TO WORK IN THE FACTORIES TO HELP WITH THE WAR EFFORT

10. HARRY TRUMAN: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING THE ORDER TO DROP THE ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN TO END WWII

11. ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA AND THEN NAGASAKI TO END WWII

12. THE UNITED NATIONS: CREATED AT THE CONCLUSION OF WWII TO SEEK “WORLD PEACE” AND “PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS”

13. THE BERLIN WALL: “A DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN COMMUNISM AND DEMOCRACY IN BERLIN”

14. THE KOREAN WAR: A FIGHT OVER COMMUNISM

15. BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION TOPEKA KANSAS

16. THURGOOD MARSHALL: LINDA BROWN’S LAWYER WHO TOOK HERE CASE TO CORT THAT LEAD TO THE DESEGREGATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN 1954

17. ROSA PARKS: CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA BUS BOYCOTT

18. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr.: LEADER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 1950’S IN AMERICA

19. NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV: LEADER OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY DURING THE “COLD WAR”

20. THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: “THAT CLOSE TO WORLD WIDE NUCLEAR WAR”

21. JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

22. ROBERT F. KENNEDY: ASSINATED IN LOS ANGELES WHILE RUUNING FOR THE DEMOCRACTIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT

23. JOSEPH McCARTHY: MADE CHARGES AGAINST PEOPLE STATING THEY WERE COMMUNISTS

24. CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON (1963)

25. VIETNAM WAR: ( ) A WAR OVER THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM IN ASIA THAT DIVIDED AMERICA OVER WHETHER THE UNITED STATES SHOULD SEND AMERICANS TO WAR.

26. SPUTNIK VS. APOLLO 11: THE RACE TO SPACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA

27. WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF: IRAQI INVADED KUWAIT IN 1991 TO START THE “GULF WAR” IT BECAME KNOWN AS “OPERATION DESERT STORM”

28. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. AN ONGOING CONFLICT IS CONTROL OF PALESTINE
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? AN ONGOING CONFLICT IS CONTROL OF PALESTINE. JEWS AND ARABS ARE FIGHTING OVER THE SAME STRIP OF LAND ON THE COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. THE UNITED NATIONS DIVIDED PALESTINE AFTER WWII

29. THE TWIN TOWERS: SITE OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA ON 9-11-2001
THE TWIN TOWERS: SITE OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA ON THE TOWERS WERE DESTROYED WHEN AIRPLANES WERE FLOWN INTO THE BUILDINGS. THIS DAY STARTED THE ONGOING “WAR ON TERROR”.

30. COMPUTERS! THE PERSONAL COMPUTER AND INTERNET HAS MADE EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD CLOSER THROUGHT QUICK COMMUNICATION