Wars
This war started with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
This is a religious faith that originated in India, and focuses on many forms of one god.
What is Hinduism?
This was the name of the empire in India in the 1500s and 1600s.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This was the inventor who made the steam engine into a usable device for industry.
Who is James Watt?
This was the first communist leader of the Soviet Union after his Bolshevik group took power in 1917.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
What is the Vietnam War?
This was the religion of the leaders of Songhai and of the Ottoman and Mughal Empires.
This communist country was the site of a missile crisis in 1962.
What is Cuba?
This is the term for the exchange of livestock, food crops, other animals and plants, and germs between Old World and New in the decades after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Portuguese explorer went around the southern tip of Africa and went on to India, becoming the first European to do so.
A. Christopher Columbus
B. Francis Drake
C. Key Lime Pie
D. Vasco da Gama?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The Battle of Britain, D-Day, and the Battle of the Bulge were important efforts in this war.
What is World War II?
This war started in 1618 as a fight between Catholics and Protestants, but when it ended in 1648, countries were just fighting over land.
A. WWI
B. WWII
C. 30 Years War
D. Civil War
What was the 30 Years' War?
This was the country that Otto Von Bismarck helped unify in the 1870s.
What is Germany?
This term means "fencing pasture land" -- a movement to do more of this in Britain forced poor people off farms and into industrial work.
What is enclosure?
Who built the Palace of Versailles
Who was King Louis XIV
What is Haiti?
This Protestant reformer, who invented the Printing Press. What did he make more available?
Who was Martin Luther and the bible
These were the cities that were bombed with atomic weapons near the end of World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan?
This refers to the way that armies adapted to the machine gun on the battlefield in WWI.
What is trench warfare?
Who left the catholic church to marry more wives?
Who is King Henry VIII of England ?
This war ended with a stalemate at the DMZ.
What is the Korean War?
This was the name for the actions that the Catholic church took to respond to the Protestant threat -- actions like setting up the Jesuit missionary society, setting up church courts, and reforming priests' behavior.
a. The Counter Reformation
b. The Renaissance
c. Exploration Era
What was the Counter-Reformation?
This kingdom's shogun kicked out all foreign traders and forbade foreign travel in the early 1600s.
What is Japan?
This was the leader who engaged in civil disobedience to protest British colonial rule in the 1930s and 1940s.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
This was the leader of the Reign of Terror during the French revolution.
A. King Louis X
B. Maximilien Robespierre
C. Queen Elizabeth
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?