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This US president was in office in the mid 1980s and increased military spending. He was often in touch with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Ronald Reagan
100
This Supreme Court case desegregated schools
Brown v. Board of Education
100
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
100
The Nuremberg trials were in response to what genocide?
The Holocaust
100
Why was Stalingrad significant?
It was a strategically important for both sides as it had access to the Volga River and oil fields. The battle was also considered a turning point in the war.
200
"By any means necessary" was a quote this figure said in reference to protest.
Malcolm X
200
The set of policies developed by Franklin Roosevelt to help problems of the Great Depression. This policy established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Social Security program.
the New Deal
200
The German invasion of Poland sparked this war.
WWII
200
Other than Jewish people, identify one group that Hitler and the Nazis targeted
Homosexuals, disabled people, African americans, gypsies, etc.
200
What period of US history led to the formation of the HUAC and Federal Employee Loyalty Review Program?
The Red Scare
300
This leader created 2 reforms: glasnost and perestroika. These were meant to improve Soviet society.
Mikhail Gorbachev
300
This is the Russian word for "rebuilding". Gorbachev put this reform in place to restructure soviet government.
perestroika
300
Identify two causes of WWII
1. Failures of the League of Nations
2. Appeasement
3. Issues with Treaty of Versailles
4. Great Depression/Rise of Totalitarianism
300
This group is responsible for the Cambodian genocide
the Khmer Rouge
300
What was the era of US history right after the Civil War. It lasted from the 1860s to the late 1870s.
Reconstruction era
400
This activist caused independence and freedom in India and Pakistan
Mohandas (Mahatma) Ghandi
400
What period of the Cold War does SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) represent. (Hint: it is a French word)
Détente
400
Why would the US want to compete with the USSR to get to Space? (Open ended)
answers vary
400
Identify ONE human right that is protected by the UN Declaration of human rights
Answers vary
400
Between 1955 and 1956, many African Americans citizens mobilized to protest against the buses in this popular movement in Alabama.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
500
He was assassinated prior to WWI. His death sparked the forging of alliances.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
500
The rise of fascism paved the way for this Japanese emperor to come to power in the 1930s.
Hideki Tojo
500
This controversial event, occurring in 1964, heightened U.S. involvement in Vietnam. What incident, involving reported naval clashes, stirred international tensions during the Vietnam War era?
the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
500
Why were the Japanese Internment camps an example of a human rights violation?
It would have violated the article about arbitrary arrest.
500
What war was prior to the Vietnam war? France participated.
French Indochina War