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