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Historical Events and Figures #6

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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
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
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