World History
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered the chain of events that started this world war in 1914.
What is WWI?
The first ten Amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the laws of the nation.
What is the executive branch?
Because resources are limited but human wants are unlimited, every society faces this fundamental economic problem.
What is scarcity?
This term describes the growing interconnectedness of countries through international trade, investment, technology, and cultural exchange.
What is globalization?
Serving as Soviet dictator from the mid-1920s until 1953, he transformed the USSR into an industrial superpower through his Five-Year Plans.
Who is Joesph Stalin?
This man is the only President of the United States to serve more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This body of 538 electors officially selects the President and Vice President of the United States.
What is the electoral college?
When the price of a product increases, consumers generally purchase less of it, assuming all other factors remain constant. This economic principle explains that relationship.
What is the law of demand?
Term for the process of storing and recalling information?
What is memory?
Built in 1961, this physical barrier dividing a major European city became the ultimate symbol of the Iron Curtain until it was dismantled in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The United States invaded these two beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
What are Utah and Omaha?
Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution ends with this clause, giving Congress the power to pass all laws "necessary and proper" for executing its duties.
What is the elastic clause?
.As consumers' incomes rise, they tend to purchase more restaurant meals but fewer packages of inexpensive instant noodles. Instant noodles would be classified as this type of good.
What is inferior good?
This international organization, established in 1995, promotes global trade by encouraging countries to reduce trade barriers and establishing rules for international commerce.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
Formed in 1949, this intergovernmental military alliance was created by North American and European nations for collective defense against Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
The Thirteen Days Crisis was another name for what Cold War standoff.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1803 landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review, granting courts the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
In this economic system, private individuals and businesses make most production decisions, with prices largely determined through supply and demand.
What is market economy?
Psychologist famous for his experiments with dogs and classical conditioning?
Launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 to reassert control over the party, this movement mobilized the Red Guards to purge capitalist and traditional elements.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This man was the second President of the United States to be assassinated.
Who is James Garfield?
According to the 25th Amendment and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, this official is second in line to succeed the presidency after the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This market structure features a small number of large firms that dominate an industry, with each firm's pricing and production decisions influencing its competitors.
What is oligopoly?
Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, this multi-volume work aimed to gather and secularize all human knowledge during the Enlightenment.
What is the Encyclopedia?