combined a keyboard with a monitor and light pen for correcting texts and drawing on screen
What is the personal computer?
100
had come to believe that Indian Muslims should have their own state; served as leader of the All-India Muslim League
Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
100
was a result of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (militarism, imperialism, nationalism, and alliances)
What is World War 1?
100
first drug that were effective against many previously serious diseases
What is penicillin?
100
has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for over fifty years, and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits
What is Barbie?
200
is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions
What is the atomic bomb?
200
the earliest and the most extensive of all colonial migrations to Western Europe before the 1960s
What is Algerian migration to France
200
one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people; 1/5 of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus
What is influenza epidemic?
200
one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement
Who is Picasso?
300
a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area
What is mobile phone?
300
left their homes, either driven by force or by fear, fleeing to the West Bank and Gaza, and to the contiguous countries of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan
Who are the Palestinian refugees?
300
largest invasion in the history of warfare
What is Operation Barbarossa
300
a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive
What is hiv/aids?
300
is a term applied to the work of a number of late 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject (think BYRNE)
What is existentialism?
400
a system to detect aircraft and surface vessels from far away or in poor weather conditions; helped the Allies win WWII
What is the radar?
400
historical policies that intentionally favoured immigration to Australia by white people from Britain and strongly discouraged non-whites
What is the White Australia policy?
400
U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment
What is Vietnam War?
400
When control of the substance levels fails, diabetes can result; stops the use of fat as an energy source by inhibiting the release of glucagon
What is insulin?
400
established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel
What is Walt Disney Company?
500
a global system of interconnected computer networks; telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by it
What is the internet?
500
is the product of waves of immigration primarily from diaspora communities in Europe;
Who are the Jewish populations in US?
500
a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces
What is Russian Civil War?
500
is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals
What is malaria?
500
often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or "the King"