Global History
A third of the population of Europe died thanks to this event
What is the black plague?
This is the year that the Civil War began
What is 1861?
This was the year that the Declaration of Independence was signed
What is 1776?
This was the leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This was the country that the US "fought" during the cold war
What is the Soviet Union?
The current monarch of the United Kingdom
Who is King Charles III?
This proclamation declared that all slaves in the rebel states were now free
What is the emancipation proclamation?
This country helped the American colonists win the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
This women refused to give up her seat on this Montgomery bus
Who is Rosa Parks?
This was the year that the Soviet Union collapsed
What is 1991?
These are how many wives King Henry the 8th had
What is 6?
The first state to leave the Union
What is South Carolina?
This was the original capital of the United States
What is Philadelphia?
This was the event where MLK delivered his "I have a dream" speech
What is the March on Washington?
This was the official foreign policy of the United States during the cold war
What is containment?
This was the year the Roman Empire fell
What is 476 CE?
This was the first battle of the civil war
What is The Battle of Bull Run?
This important building was burned down during the war of 1812
What is the White House?
This case ended segregation in public schools
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the first known city in recorded history
What is Catal Huyuk?
This was where the confederate army surrendered and where the civil war ended
What is The Appomattox Court House?
This was the first permanent settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
These students were the first to integrate public schools in the late 1950s
what is Little Rock 9?
This was a crisis that almost ended in nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?