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Prime Minister of England during WWII
Winston Churchill
African American pilots who helped destroy over 400 enemy aircraft
Tuskegee Airmen
U.S. President during the Great Depression and WWII
Franklin Roosevelt
Communist leader of China
Mao Zedong
Nation of Islam leader who was assassinated during Brotherhood week
Malcom X
Civil Rights activist who refused to give up their seat and move to the back of the bus; Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
This person assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis Tennessee
James Earl Ray
This person introduced the policies of
glasnost and perestroika;
Many believed he was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Secretary of Defense under both Kennedy and Johnson; believe in escalating the American commitment for the war in Vietnam
Mcnamara
Police Commissioner in Birmingham, Alabama; conspired with the KKK to attack the Freedom Riders
Eugene Bull Connor
Communist leader of Cuba
Castro
Pilot who was shot over the Soviet Union for spying; escalated tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
Civil rights leader who encouraged civil disobedience and non-violent protests
Martin Luther King Jr.
WWII hero who became president in 1952
Eisenhower
Took over the presidency after FDR died; authorized the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Truman
President assassinated November 22
nd
, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald; many conspiracies surround this president's death
John F. Kennedy
This person emerged the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died in 1953
Khruschev
Senator from Wisconsin who made baseless charges claiming he had the names of 50 communists who had infiltrated the Department of State
Joe McCarthy
What was decided at the Munich Conference between Chamberlain, Roosevelt, and Hitler?
Hitler receives the Sudtenland
What nation did Italy invade in 1935?
Ethiopia
What was the purpose of the Atlantic Charter?
Common goal of defeating Hitler
Which country did Hitler invade causing France and Great Britain to declare war on Germany?
Poland
Which 3 countries had totalitarian government before and during the war? Who are their leaders?
Germany
: Hitler
Italy
: Mussolini
Russia
: Stalin
What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What is the "day that will live in infamy?"
December 7th, 1941
Which nations made up the Axis Powers?
Japan
Germany
Italy
What was the Manhattan project?
The creation of the atomic bomb
Which country did Germany
NOT
occupy?
Great Britain
What is the date of D-Day?
June 6, 1944
What area did the invasion of D-Day take place?
Normandy, France
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