1930s
What is the Reichstag?
Direct conflict between the US and USSR nearly breaks out in 1962 when Soviet missiles are detected on this Caribbean island.
What is Cuba?
The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott is led by this young, charismatic Baptist minister.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This country produces 26% of the world's GDP
What is the United States?
Faced with Britain's inability to continue financing a war against communism in Greece, this US President issued his famous containment doctrine
Who is President Truman?
Stalin sends an estimated 14 million people to these brutal concentration camps during The Purges
What are gulags?
In 1954, the French pull out of Indochina after their troops are encircled and forced to surrender in this climactic battle.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
First published in 1963, this book by Betty Friedan helped launch the US Women's Rights movement.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
About 25% of global trade passes through this strait on its way to East Asia.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
Signed in 1948, this plan offered $13 billion in aid to European countries struggling to recover from WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is the Social Security Act
The United Nations agreed to go to war in Korea because this nation was boycotting the Security Council at the time.
What is the USSR?
A police raid on this New York City bar in 1969 is often considered the start of the gay rights movement.
What is Stonewall Inn?
A country's EEZ extends this many miles beyond its shoreline.
What is 200 nautical miles?
A Soviet blockade of this city in 1948 prompts the US to launch a ten-month-long airlift to supply its citizens.
What is Berlin?
Passed by the Popular Front in 1936, these agreements give French workers and 40-hour work day and paid vacation.
What are the Matignon Agreements (or Accords)?
Who is President Johnson?
A convert to Islam in 1963, this militant leader criticised the non-violent tactics of Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Malcolm X?
This Spanish word describes the low-wage factories that cluster on the US-Mexico border
What are maquiladoras?
At the 1945 Yalta conference, the Big Three struggle to agree on the future governance of this Eastern European country.
What is Poland?
Passed in 1935, these laws stripped Jewish-Germans of citizenship and prohibited them from marrying 'Aryan' Germans.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
In 1949, this Chinese communist leader formally declares the People's Republic of China.
Who is Mao Tse-Tung?
The first openly gay public official in California, he was assassinated in 1978.
Who is Harvey Milk?
This country joined the euro in 2026
What is Bulgaria?
Cold War tensions intensified after the Soviets tested their first nuclear device in this year.
What is 1949?