People in History
These 2 men changed Russia during the pre-Cold War 20th Century.
Who are Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin?
The idea/theory that one came to power by the grace of God.
**Bonus 50 points is you can name the version of the same idea in China
What is Divine Right?
**BONUS: What is the Mandate of Heaven?
He is responsible for the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
**Bonus 100 points if you can explain the main points of both events**
Who is Mao Zedong?
These trials set the course for the formation of not only the United Nations but an International Tribunal and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
From World War I through World War II, there were 3 notable genocides. Name them.
**Bonus 50 points if you can name them in order
What is the Armenian Genocide, Holodomor/Ukrainian Genocide, and the Holocaust?
His death sparked a World War after Gavrilo Princip assassinated him.
*BONUS 50 points if you can name what empire he was heir to
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
BONUS: Austria-Hungary
These economic ideologies came out of the Industrial Revolution.
**BONUS 100 points if you can tell me who came up with each of the ideologies.
**BONUS 100 points if you can name the books which they came from.
What is communism (Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels) and capitalism (Adam Smith)?
*BONUS: Communist Manifesto and Wealth of Nations
These 2 allied communist leaders almost started a nuclear World War III thanks to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev?
These 3 revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment ideas and the American Revolution.
What are the French, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions?
The Khmer Rouge were responsible for this genocide in this Southeast Asian country in the 1970s.
What is the Cambodian Genocide?
These 2 men were the main fascist leaders of Europe.
*BONUS 50 points if you can name their countries
*BONUS 50 points if you can name the fascist leader of Spain.
Who are Mussolini (Italy) and Hitler (Germany)?
BONUS: Francisco Franco
Jewish Nationalism
What is Zionism?
This man is responsible for ultimately ending the Cold War with his policies of Perestroika and Glasnost.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Japanese modernization
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This genocide was an ethnic cleansing of Muslims in this Eastern European country (in the Balkans)
What is the Bosnian Genocide?
Leader of the Protestant Reformation.
*BONUS 100 points if you can explain the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
The idea that history of Cambodia did not start until Pol Pot took power.
What is Year Zero?
These two leaders of human rights in India and South Africa became icons of a generation.
Who are Gandhi and Mandela?
What is the Black Plague?
This event is considered by some a genocide even though it was an accidental (could have been stopped) famine within a country formerly under the rule of the British Empire.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
These 3 Enlightenment thinkers' ideas are a part of most, if not all, constitutional based nations' "founding" documents.
**Bonus 100 points if you can name the name of the ideas**
Who are Locke (Natural Rights), Rousseau (Social Contract) and Montesquieu (3 Branches)?
This is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a result of a deliberate state policy under Stalin.
What is Russification?
This leader of North Vietnam eventually sided with communist allies, China and Russia.
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
This event put the boundaries of Europe back to their pre-Napoleon borders leading eventually to the Unification of Germany and the Unification of Italy.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This genocide that lasted 100 days in the 1990s, was an ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi by the Hutu militia.
What is the Rwanda Genocide?