The Tripartite Pact ______________.

A term used to describe a practice by the U.S. to prevent the spread of communism.  The theory stated that if one country became communist the others would soon follow.

The federal government appropriated $3 billion to fund the mapping of human genes.  It identified all of 100,000 genes by 2003.

Spurred by the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union formalized its own alliance with other communist governments of Eastern Europe with the _______.

The Freedmen’s Bureau ______________.

On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service held its first Vietnam Draft Lottery.  Each male of appropriate age was given a number based on his birhday.  Men selected were to report to the draft board to be evauluated.  This provided a fair and equal way to draft American’s young men.

She was born a slave, but later escaped to Philadelphia where she lived as a freewoman.  She dedicated her life to helping others escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.  She helped so many slaves gain freedom that she received the name “Moses” of her people.  At one point, she had a $40,000 bounty for her capture.  After the Civil War began, she became a spy for the Union soldiers.  Who was she?

Among the root causes of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was  _______________________-.

This battle was fought in Belguim.  Hitler wanted to split the Allied armies.  However, he failure to do so marked the last German offensive on the western front.  

This scandal rocked a nation.  It occurred in June of 1972 when police arrested five men who had broken into the offices of the Democratic National Committee.