3 Branches of Gov
The leader of the Executive Branch
Who is the President?
The last Czar in Russian history.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
Name given before Iran
What is Persia?
Type of protest Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged amongst his followers
What is non-violent (or peaceful) protest?
Leader of the anti-apartheid movement who became the first black president of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The number of people in the Senate
What is 100?
He is the founder of the Bolsheviks. Was the first leader of the USSR.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Leader of Iran before the revolution- he westernized the country and was a puppet of the west
Who is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi or the Shah?
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till
Name of Mandela's organization that fought against apartheid
What is the African National Congress or ANC?
The number of Supreme Court justices and the length of their terms
What is 9 justices and they each have a lifetime term.
The names of the two men vying to replace Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union and the winner of that struggle for power
Who are Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin? Stalin became the leader of the USSR.
System of government in which religious leaders rule in the name of God.
What is theocracy?
Names of the three marches for voting rights in 1965 in Alabama
What are Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, and the Selma to Montgomery March?
Name of the coordinated non-violent acts of resistance in South Africa that aimed to deliberately break apartheid laws.
What is the Defiance Campaign?
How the number of members of the House of Representatives is determined
Lenin's slogan to the people.
What is Peace, Land, and Bread?
Name of Muslim leader who overthrew Shah in revolution
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
The name the organization John Lewis started when he was a student
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
Name of the Johannesburg township where school children marched in 1976 against the government's decision to insist that subjects in schools be taught in Afrikaans (also where Trevor Noah's grandparents lived)
What is Soweto?
What does the term "checks and balances" mean?
Each branch has the authority to limit or override the actions of the others, so no single branch of government becomes too powerful or tyrannical.
The full name of Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Year of the Iranian Revolution
What is 1979?
Name and year of the landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)?
What is the economic term for the pulling out of South Africa by international companies?
What is disinvestment?