Big Shots
He led the Third Reich and championed Naziism
Who is Hitler?
The Great Recession in the United States led to the establishment of this system to support the elderly after retirement.
What is Social Security?
Allowing an enemy to take what is not theirs in order to advance peace
What is appeasement?
This attack brought the United States into World War II
What is Pearl Harbor?
The greatest technological triumph of the 1960s occurred in July of 1969
What is the lunar landing?
The Italian leader who coined the word "fascism"
Who is Mussolini?
Reagan's policy to design laser-based satellite systems to shoot down incoming missiles was known as
What is Star Wars?
1948-1991, a time of tension and nuclear rivalry between the US and the USSR, is often called
What is the Cold War?
New York City became a battleground on this fateful fall day.
What is 9-11 or the attack on the World Trade Center?
He helped end apartheid and became the first black leader of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
He founded Al-Qaeda and planned the destruction of the World Trade Towers
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
The US plan to rebuild Europe and Japan after World War II by sending billions of dollars in reconstruction aid
What is the Marshall Plan?
The US produced so many weapons during World War II that Franklin Delano Roosevelt and others referred to it as
What is an Arsenal for Democracy?
Normandy was the battle ground for his World War II invasion
What is D-Day?
These peace accords negotiated in the Trump administration paved the way for normalization of Arab relations with Israel
What are the Abraham Accords?
This Pope was instrumental in the collapse of the Soviet empire and freedom in Eastern Europe
Who is Pope John Paul II?
The Truman policy that made it difficult for the Soviet Union to spread their influence
What is "containment"?
A militant form of Islam that sees non-Muslims as infidels and urges the formation of states governed by Shariah law
What is Islamism?
War criminals were tried for their battle ground offenses in this forum
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
The 1989 event that marked the end of the costly Cold War and a new birth of freedom for Eastern Europe
What was the Fall of the Berlin Wall?
She led the Committee that formulated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the UN in 1948
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. promoted this policy
What is non-violent resistance?
Name for Germany's mass slaughter of the Jews in World War II
What is the Holocaust?
The time and place where the world came closest to nuclear warfare
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Obama administration considered this its greatest triumph against terrorism.
What is killing Bin-Laden?