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What is Smallpox
This disease killed about a third of those who had been infected by this disease. Around 300 million people died from it. This diseases left scars all over the body.
100
What is slavery
African Americans were forced to work on plantations.
100
What is The Holocaust
This was when Jewish people were murdered. Hitler led the Nazis to kill the Jews because he believed the Germans were superior to the Jews.
100
What is tuberculosis
People living with HIV are 19 times more likely to develop this disease than people without it. HIV and this disease form a lethal combination, each speeding the other’s mortality rate.
100
What is the Spanish Flu of 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus)?
During this pandemic, the US was short in medical staff because of World War I.
200
What is Polio
This virus causes a debilitating muscle disorder by affecting the motor neurons. The 32nd President was believed to have had this disease but scientists now think he was misdiagnosed.
200
What is Trail of Tears
The United States Government forced Native Americans to leave their homes and move to Oklahoma. This got its name from the long march to Oklahoma and the deaths that occurred from the terrible conditions.
200
What is Cambodian Genocide
Between 1975 and 1979, Khmer Rouge tortured and killed roughly 2 million Cambodians who were educated and working in the city and their families.
200
What is Malaria
People can get this disease by being bitten by an infected female Anopheles mosquito. This disease is most common in Africa.
200
What is Spanish Inquisition
Wanting to keep only catholics living in the Iberian peninsula. They interrogated people who they suspected weren’t catholic and if they weren’t they were tortured and or killed.
300
What is Ebola
This deadly virus originated in West Africa in 1976 and in December 2019 the FDA just approved a vaccine for it.
300
What is The Great Migration
The movement where roughly 6 million African Americans moved from the southern states to the northeast and midwest to escape racism, find better schools and better jobs.
300
What is Armenian Genocide
Between 1914 and 1923, the Ottoman Turkish government killed all of the Armenian men and infants in Armenia and forced all the Aremenian women and kids on death marches through the desert.
300
What is Coronary Artery Disease
This disease occurs from the buildup of cholesterol and white blood cells which results in plaque. If untreated, it can result in a heart attack.
300
What is Bill Gates
This rich man is working on developing toilets that could be used all over the world to help improve sanitation by preventing waste from getting into people’s water supplies.
400
What is SARS
Between November 2002 and July 2003, a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with this respiratory illness. Of these, 774 died. By late July 2003, no new cases were being reported, and the World Health Organization declared the global outbreak to be over.
400
What is Baby Boom
The United States saw a huge increase in the population after World War II. One of the reasons was that people felt that they could afford larger families because the economy was better.
400
What Irish Potato Famine
A time when many people in Ireland starved because a fungus hit one of their crops. This led to about 1 million Irish to die.
400
What is Alcoholism
People with this condition have the desire or physical need to consume alcohol, even though it has a negative impact on their life.
400
What is Japanese Internment
During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to move out of their homes and were relocated to detention camps.
500
What is HIV/AIDS
Even with treatment, once you have this virus, you have it for life. It is spread through certain body fluids.
500
What is Transatlantic Slave Trade
The system where Europeans traded manufactured goods such as guns and knives for captured Africans. These Africans were then shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to become slaves.
500
What is Holodomor
During 1932 and 1933, the Soviet Union forced Ukraine to change how they farmed and made it illegal to harvest food on the farms. This led 7 million people into starvation.
500
What is Leprosy
This disease is transmitted through saliva, mucous and animals such as armadillos. India is home to 60% of infected people. Left untreated, the bacteria spreads to the skin and nerves leaving lesions and numbness. It is a myth that the disease is flesh eating.
500
What is Five-year plans (Russia)
In the late 1920s Stalin wanted to turn the Soviet Union into a modernized and industrialized country. To do this quickly, he developed three of these?






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