WWII
What two countries were already involved in a military conflict before the beginning of World War II?
Japan and China
What valuable resource did cities provide for industries?
people / labor
The dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War was called?
The Iron Curtain
What sparked WWI?
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
What was Muhammad Ali's original name?
Cassius Clay
In which battle did the Axis powers lose about a quarter of their total troops on the Eastern Front?
Battle of Stalingrad
What power source was instrumental to industrial mechanization?
Steam
The Cold War divided the world into two camps -
those who supported a free society and those who supported communism
Who were the Allies?
British, French, Russians
Who wrote the bestselling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
Maya Angelou
What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on?
Nagasaki
What had to happen to the environment for industrialization to occur?
enclosure of the land / deforestation
Communism is a system in which?
the government owns the factories and natural resources; people are not free
Who were the Central powers?
German, Italy, Austria/Hungary, Ottoman Empire
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
Department store seamstress
What country lost the most lives in World War II?
Soviet Union
When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Late 1700's; Great Britain
Who went to the Potsdam Conference?
Stalin (USSR), Truman (USA) and Attlee (Britain)
When did the U.S. declare war on Germany?
April 6, 1917
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
What was the longest battle of World War II?
Battle of the Atlantic
What did president Theodore Roosevelt create after reading Upton Sinclair's: The Jungle?
FDA
When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945, before World War Two had ended
Who was the commander of the U.S. troops in Europe?
General John J Pershings
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?
Ebenezer Baptist