| A | B |
|---|
| Tea Act | this led to the Boston Tea Party |
| Saratoga | turning point of the American Revolution |
| Benjamin Franklin | painter, inventor, founding father, member of the Constitutional Convention |
| Stamp Act | tax placed on paper goods |
| Trenton | battle resulting in an important Patriot victory and the capture of 900 hessian soldiers |
| Thomas Paine | wrote "Common Sense" as a way to inspire people to choose independence from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Boston Massacre | this was used as propaganda to make more Americans turn to the Patriot cause |
| George Washington | commander of the Continental Army |
| Lexington | the "shot heard 'round the world" |
| Bataan Death March | This took place in the Phillippines |
| Battle of Midway | this was the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| Hiroshima | the first atomic weapon used in war was dropped on this place |
| island hopping | name given to the strategy that the Allies used to defeat Japan |
| Iwo Jima | The Allies desire to establish a base here from which to bomb Japan resulted in one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific |
| Manhattan Project | this resulted in the development of the atomic bomb |
