WWII
What started World War II
The German invasion of Poland
What two people where key in the civil rights movement
MLK, Rosa Parks
Communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
What is Facism ?
Personal Freedoms are denied and total power is given to the DIctator
What is Rosa Parks famous for
Not giving her seat to a white man on a segregated bus
Who won World War II
Allied Powers
Name one Civil rights movement group ?
The Black Panthers, Little Rock Nine, NAACP
What is Socialism
It states that the means of making, moving, and trading wealth should be owned or controlled by the workers.
What is an Appeasement
An agreement to avoid conflict
Who was Rosie the Riveter
A fictional icon used to encourage women to work during the war
What was the Holocaust
A time period in which Jews were captured by German soldiers and put to work or killed if not efficient enough
Why did the Civil rights movement take place
To end segregation between blacks and whites and to give rights to all
Where did JFK assassination take place
In a car during the presidential motorcade
What is the Lend-Lease Policy
The US supplied Ammo and Aid to Great Britain in return of bases in the Bermuda and Caribbean
What was Harry Trumans major act as president ?
Ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What brought the United States into World War II ?
the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
What was the name of MLK’s partner during the movement
Malcom X
What was the Space Race
A race to see who could get to space first, the Soviet Union or the United States
What is Aryan Supremacy
The thought that pure bred Germans are the superior race amongst all.
What is Adolf Hitler notorious for
capturing anyone who disobeyed him and killing off half the Jew population
Who Ordered the bomb dropping on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Harry Truman
Who was Emmett Till
A young 14 year old boy who was murdered as a racist act that shocked the world and kickstarted more civil rights movements
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis
When the Soviet Union had multiple military bases in Cuba with many missiles ready to launch
What is a Japanese Internment Camp
Where they held and tortured Captured American Soldiers
When was MLK assassinated (year)
April 4, 1968