Civil Rights
Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister who was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
An economic system based on private ownership, competition, and profit.
Capitalism
The Greek goddess of wisdom.
Athena
Big wooden animal that Greek soldiers hid inside
Horse
Freed Martin Luther King Jr. from prison and promoted racial equality.
John F. Kennedy
The event in which China attempted to rapidly change from an agricultural economy to an industrial one.
The Great Leap Forward
A system where property and major industries are owned collectively or by the state.
Communism
In Greek mythology, this individual is considered the king of the gods.
Zeus
This city was besieged for ten years during the events of the Trojan War.
Troy
This individual was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a public bus.
Rosa Parks
This event on July 20, 1969, globally displayed Americans superiority in the Space Race.
The Moon Landing
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Western military alliance formed in 1949.
NATO
In Greek mythology, this individual is presented as the messenger of the gods.
Hermes
This beautiful woman’s abduction sparked the Trojan War.
Helen of Troy
A common nickname for laws that promoted segregation and racial discrimination in America.
Jim Crow Laws
Mass killings and arrests that took place in Soviet Russia from 1918 to 1922.
The Red Terror
An economic and political system in which the government or the community collectively owns or controls major industries and resources with the goal of promoting economic equality
Socialism
Penelope
The Trojan War is depicted in this epic poem attributed to Homer.
The Iliad
This individual was an American political activist who fought for labor rights among workers from the 1960s to 1990s.
Cesar Chavez
The invisible barrier that separated communist countries from capitalist countries during the 1940s to the 1980s.
The Iron Curtain
A system where the state controls nearly all aspects of life.
Totalitarianism
In the Odyssey, this individual in the ruler of Pylos.
Nestor
Which Greek god or goddess used a golden apple to cause the conflict that resulted in the Trojan War.