Nuclear History
A research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons
What is the Manhattan Project?
A widely condemned genocide against Palestinians has been perpetrated in this occupied area since October 7th, 2023.
What is the Gaza Strip?
This former secretary of state died in 2023 after spending his political career expanding US imperialism abroad and perpetuating human rights crimes.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
The only UN body with the authority to establish peacekeeping operations, enact international sanctions, and authorize military action.
What is the UN Security Council?
This man was a South African anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned for 27 years, but later became the first president of South Africa
Who is Nelson Mandela?
A Cold War military strategy based on the idea that if two opposing sides possess the capability to inflict devastating nuclear attacks on each other
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
This country is currently experiencing the world's largest humanitarian crisis ever recorded due to famine and a civil war that has displaced millions of people and left the healthcare system in ruins.
What is Sudan?
This Southeast Asian country was a colony under the United States following the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
The main difference between the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICJ only adjudicates general disputes between nations, while the ICC can try individuals for war crimes.
This civil rights activist was the first black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard University and helped found the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
Only these four continents are designated entirely as Nuclear Weapon Free Zones (NWFZ).
What are Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and South America?
Since 2011, this country has been torn apart by a civil war leaving 15 million people in the need of humanitarian aid.
What is Syria?
The Dirty War was a period of state terrorism supported by the US in this South American country.
What is Argentina?
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in this year.
What is 1948?
Time Magazine's 2019 Person of the Year, known widely for her climate activism, but has also advocated for many humanitarian crises around the globe including the genocide in Gaza.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The official name of the Iran Nuclear Deal; an agreement to limit the Iranian nuclear program in return for sanctions relief and other provisions.
What is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action?
This state has endured decades of conflict between government forces and nonstate armed groups that are primarily organized along ethnic lines and went under military rule in 2021.
What is Myanmar?
The CIA and MI6 plotted to overthrow this democratically elected leader in 1953.
Who is Mohammad Mosaddegh?
The UN Human Rights Council replaced this UN Body.
What is the UN Commission on Human Rights?
A civil rights activist from Hong Kong who played an important role in the Umbrella Movement, which was part of the 2014 Hong Kong protests advocating for democratic governance, universal suffrage, and more transparent elections.
Who is Joshua Wong?
These are the 9 nuclear-armed states.
What are Russia, United States, China, United Kingdom, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea (Sorted by most to least).
Various humanitarian crises plague the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but Genocide Watch has recently called attention to the "slow genocide" affecting this group in the region (hint: same ethnic group victimized by the Rwandan Genocide)
Who are the Tutsi?
This CIA campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers in South America formally existed from 1975 to 1983
The United States has not ratified this statute which established the ICC.
What is the Rome Statute?
In 2015, when she was just five years old, she broke through security to hand the pope a letter urging him to support the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program, which would keep families together despite immigration status.
Who is Sophie Cruz?