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Former House speaker who was ousted after 9 months.
German-born philosopher whose rigorous critique of capitalism has led to most modern communist movements today.
Who is Karl Marx?
An abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961, financed and directed by the U.S. government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Prominent student activist group on campus founded in 1969 by Mitchel Cohen.
What is the Red Balloon Collective?
Historical figure assassinated near the Miljacka River in 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
At least 79 people died after a crowded migrant vessel sunk off the coast of this country.
What is Greece?
Leading Russian revolutionary figure who heavily critiqued the Stalinist USSR. Commonly associated with the theory of permanent revolution.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
The largest strike wave in U.S. history, when two million workers walked off their jobs.
What were the strikes of 1945 and 1946?
Stony Brook University received a historic $500 million endowment from him.
Who is Jim Simons?
Poison in apple seeds.
What is cyanide?
The mercenary leader of the Wagner Group.
Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.
Who is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
Law, that as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Native Americans residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi."
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A philanthropist and businessman who donated over 400 acres to establish SBU.
Who is John Ward Melville?
Igneous rock with a density less than water.
What is pumice?
US sends this weapon to Ukraine despite the 2008 United Nations treaty banning their use.
One of the most influential socialist feminist thinkers of the last century. Founder of the Wages for Housework movement.
Who is Silvia Federici?
CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992.
What is Operation Cyclone?
January 1968 drug raid with 200 Suffolk County police officers, resulted in the arrest of 29 students.
What is Operation Stony Brook?
Richard Nixon delivered his infamous “I am not a crook” speech here.
What is the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World (Orlando, Fl)?
Ethnic Armenians from this region were forced to flee after its president signed a decree dissolving state institutions following its defeat by Azerbaijan.
What is Nagorno-Karabakh?
Professor of history at the University of Chicago. Wrote Time, Labor and Social Domination.
Who is Moishe Postone?
Formerly known as this, the now U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased by the US for $25 million.
What are the Danish West Indies?
First dean of SBU
Who is Leonard K. Olson?
Mikhail Gorbachev was in the restaurant commercial for this fast food chain.
What is Pizza Hut?