Historical Events and Figures #6

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Last updated: October 13, 2020

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Description	Answer
Writer of "If Beale Street Could Talk" and "Go Tell it on the Mountain"	James Baldwin
First openly gay elected official in California history, was assassinated after serving	Harvey Milk
Act that granted employees the right to form trade unions and go on strikes	National Labor Relations Act
Court case that made laws against biracial marriage illegal	Loving v. Virginia
March for Afriacn American rights in D.C.	March on Washington
Wrote "A People's History of the United States"	Howard Zinn
Communist politician in Czechoslovakia who caused the nation to be invaded by the Soviet Union	Alexander Dubcek
A failed military coup of Germany by the Nazi Party	Beer Hall Putsch
The best known crossing point of the Berlin Wall	Checkpoint Charlie
Book by Solzhenitsyn about the horrible labor camps established by the Soviet Union	The Gulag Archipelago

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The first democratically elected president of Poland	Lech Walesa
Codename for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in WWII	Operation Barbarossa
Attempt to give more freedoms to Czechoslovakia which ended in Soviet invasion	Prague Spring
The overthrow of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia	Velvet Revolution
1956 attempt to overthrow the communist government in Hungary that was crushed	Hungarian Revolution
The most successful Soviet general in WWII	Georgy Zhukov
The first prime minister of Israel	David Ben-Gurion
The first prime minister of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Rural actress that became the First Lady of Argentina	Eva Peron
Longest ruler of the Netherlands and first female billionaire	Queen Wilhelmina