US Civ.Rights
Cuban Geo
Hitler/Castro
South Africa
Random
100
1896 Supreme Court Case that affirmed the Jim Crow Laws and established the doctrine of “Separate But Equal” which reaffirmed the segregation in the south after Reconstruction. Had to do with segregated train cars.
Plessy v. Ferguson
100
What were the mountains where Castro hid out during his insurgency?
The Sierra Maestra Mountains
100
Mein Kampf is to Hitler as ____ is to Castro?
"History Will Absolve Me"
100
What event is being referred to?
The event occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African state of Transvaal. After a day of demonstrations against pass laws, a crowd of about 7,000 protesters went to the police station, hundreds were killed when police opened fire.
The Sharpeville Massacre
100
The head of the Luftwaffe for most of Hitler's rule. He was a WWI war hero and was used for propaganda purposes.
1st name=50, 2nd name=50
Hermann Goering
200
Paranoia about the internal Communist threat that reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican. MLK was surveilled as a result and even harassed and blackmailed by the FBI.
The "Red Scare"
200
What part of Cuba is this?
Bay of Pigs
200
The SA is to Hitler as the ____ is to Castro.
The July 26th Movement
200
What year did South Africa break from the British Commonwealth and become its own republic?
200 exact, 100 within 10 years
1961
200
Hitler's religious persecution fell mostly on Jews. Castro's religious persecution fell mostly on ____.
Jehovah's Witnesses
300
Bull Conor
The police chief of Birmingham Alabama aimed to stop the Freedom Riders. Gave the KKK and other thugs a fifteen minute window in which no arrests would be made or any type of police action.
300
What are the two most populous cities in Cuba?
100 for one, 300 for both.
Havana, Santiago de Cuba
300
The failed attach of the Moncada Barracks is to Castro as _____ is to Hitler.
The Beer Hall (Munich) Putsch
300
Famous court case between 1963 and 1964 that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.
Rivonia Trial
300
Name one subgroup of "colored people" one sub-group of "blacks/natives" and one subgroup of "asians" in South Africa's racial system.
colored: griqua
black/native: bantu or zulu or xosa
asian: indian or cape Malay
400
What federal policy did "Ole Miss" or the University of Mississippi furiously try to avoid 1960-1964.
desegregation
integration
400
Is cuba in the Bermuda Triangle? T or F (200 points)
How many countries have territory within the Bermuda Triangle?
False, 2 Countries (Bahamas and Bermuda)
400
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) is to Hitler as ____ is to Castro. (300 for legal/diplomatic treaty 100 for date)
The Platt Amendment (1901)
400
What are the four racial "groups" arbitrarily decided by the Apartheid Government?
White, Colored, Black (Native), Indian
400
Which group's leaders were targeted by Hitler on the "Night of the Long Knives"
The SA
500
What event and year did MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech take place at?
Event=300
Year=200
March on Washington 1963
500
How many miles (200), kilometers (200) and inches (100) is Cuba from Florida? Round to the nearest hundred.
411.28 miles, 661.89 km, 26058661.4 inches
500
Hitler: The 1936 Lebensborn ordinance prescribed that every SS member should father four children, in or out of wedlock. Lebensborn homes sheltered single mothers with their children (as long as they had SS dads).
Castro: Were his policies more or less beneficial to women? Give two examples to support your argument.
-The Cuban Women's Federation
-Female Guerrilla Squads of the July 26th Movement
-Women poorly represented in Politburo and National Assembly
-Vilma Espin one of Castro's top leaders
500
What 1953 Law is this: A South African segregation law that legalized racially separate schools. This act led to Africans being directed towards more labor-centered education. (3 words) The ___ ___ ___
Bantu Education Act
500
According to the textbook, Castro gave money, supplies and/or military aid and personnel to 10 countries in order to support their communist revolutions. Write down theses ten countries. 50 points for each correct answer. Writing more than ten=disqualification!!!!
Chile, Angola, Guinea, Mozambique, Algeria, Somalia, Libya, Tanzania, Yemen, Nicaragua