People
Terms
People
Terms
People
100
Political leader of Pakistan who was assassinated.
What is Benazir Bhutto?
100
When a person is killed for political reasons.
What is assassination?
100
Leader of the Russian Revolution who established the first Communist country, the Soviet Union?
What is Vladimir Lenin?
100
The worst war in history, in which the Allied Powers fought against Germany.
What is World War II?
100
The "Iron Lady" who broke the Miner's Strike and won the Falklands War?
What is Margaret Thatcher?
200
Prime Minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
What is Golda Meir?
200
A person who travels to other countries to change people to their religious beliefs.
What is a missionary?
200
Term that means Jewish nationalism.
What is zionism?
200
A person who wants to make extreme changes to a society.
What is a radical?
200
Ruled England during the Industrial Revolution and wrote about the effects of pollution.
What is Queen Victoria?
300
Wife of Louis XVI who had an arranged marriage and was misunderstood by her people.
What is Marie Antoinette?
300
Payment that a person makes to another person of a higher power is called...
What is a tribute?
300
French leader who created a code of laws, started a national bank, and coined a new currency called the franc.
What is Napoleon?
300
Name for the machine used to behead people during the French Revolution.
What is guillotine?
300
Explorer who had his heart buried in Africa.
What is David Livingstone?
400
Used the Legislative Commission to hear the concerns of different social classes and listen to the citizens.
What is Catherine the Great?
400
Term for a sudden take over of the government, which means "stroke of state" in French.
What is coup d'etat?
400
Wrote a book called the Wealth of Nations to explain why capitalism was the best economic system.
What is Adam Smith?
400
When a minority group, like the Jews, are attacked, it is called a...
What is pogrom?
400
Had a summer palace that was known as the "Russian Versailles".
What is Peter the Great?
500
Historical figure who was the head of the "Committee for Public Safety" and decided who was executed.
What is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
Philosophy that believes that everyone who lives in a country should be of the same racial group.
What is Nazism?
500
Led his country into the Seven Years War to try to steal territory from Austria.
What is Frederick the Great?
500
Name for the global conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, in which the US wanted to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is the Cold War?
500
He was taken captive by his father's enemies when he was 11, and was not released for ten years.
What is Menelik II?
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