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Alamogordo, New Mexico - correct answers The first nuclear bomb was tested in July 1945 in the ____________,
____________ desert. The name of this first bomb was TRINITY.
Apartheid - correct answers In South Africa, institutionalized racism (racism was embedded in the law) was known as ___.
After Nelson Mandela, who died on December, 2013, was released from prison, this system was dismantled (from 1990-1994).
St. Augustine - correct answers Jesus instructed his followers to love everyone and to not fight back. As a result, early
Christians were pacifists. Christianity did an about-face in the 4th century when __. ___________ first articulated Just War
theory. The ramifications have been immense.
It was __. ________ (354-430 AD) who made this absurd statement: "For the true worshippers of God even wars are peaceful,
not waged out of greed or cruelty, but from the zeal for peace, to restrain evil or to assist the good."
Balfour Declaration - correct answers Almost everyone is aware of the years of conflict between the Israeli Jews and the
Palestinians. There are several antecedents to this conflict (e.g., the rise of Zionism in the late 1800s), but one especially
important factor was the 1917 ___________ ____________. This declaration promised the Jews that, after WWI, they'd be
able to return to their homeland (Palestine). At the same time, the Palestinians were being promised independence if they
supported the British in the war. The creation of a flash point, if ever there was one.
,Ross Barnett - correct answers Governor of Mississippi who tried to prevent James Meredith from entering Ole Miss, was
extremely racist
Phillip Berrigan - correct answers As with most everything, there are different levels of commitment to nonviolence. An
example of a person whose life was based on nonviolence - all day, every day - was ________ ________. Later in life, he said
that he had come to realize that his relationship with his enemy is the same as his relationship with God.
Wendell Berry - correct answers A Kentucky treasure (he lives in Henry County), _____ _____ makes the connection between
spirituality, care for the earth, justice, and peace. He is the author of God and Country, one title among many.
Bikini Atoll - correct answers Beginning in 1946, nuclear testing occurred in the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. The atoll
within the Marshall Islands that was the base station was ___.
Kenneth Boulding - correct answers While our history classes tend to be focused on war, peace is the norm. As ________
_________ noted, "In the mass, war has probably always constituted a relatively small fraction of human activity."
Brown V. Board of Education - correct answers 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially
segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
, Helen Caldicott - correct answers Probably the best-known activist against nuclear testing is physician ___. Her organization,
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
Christmas Truce - correct answers Near the beginning of WWI, with already a million men killed in battle, the British and
German soldiers shared pictures of their families, traded cigarettes, sang songs, and played games. This spontaneous
fraternization with the enemy is called the ___.
Collateral damage - correct answers During the Vietnam War, 90-95% of the soldiers fired on the enemy. Starting with training
for Vietnam, the soldiers were desensitized. Euphemisms were used, such as the commonly used ___, which means civilians
were killed.
Bull Conor - correct answers He was the racist chief police in Birmingham. He ordered officers to set fire hoses and dogs on
the non-violent protesters. He unintentionally helped the civil rights movement by doing so.
Conscientious objection - correct answers The author states that, over the past 100 years, ___ to war has been accepted as a
legal right. In 1995 the United Nations Commission on Human Rights embraced this right on behalf of the international
community.
Countries that possess nuclear weapons - correct answers The United Nations has two governance bodies. On one, every
member country has a seat. The other is the Security Council ; there are only five permanent members and ten rotating
members. The permanent members on this latter body were the first countries to possess nuclear weapons. (United States.
Russian Federation (formerly part of the Soviet Union)
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