Enlightenment Influence
Author of Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
Leader of Ethiopia who successfully opposed an invasion by Italy
Who is Menelik II?
The second city that the United States bombed with a nuclear weapon during World War II
Where is Nagasaki?
An economic aid deal that aimed to assist Europe in recovering from World War II
What was the Marshall Plan?
A belief that the United States' expansion westward was inevitable and justified by God
What is Manifest Destiny?
Female thinker who believed an education was the most powerful tool women could receive in order to secure equality
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Period of time spent restoring the Union
What is Reconstruction?
A Russian victory in this city marked the beginning of a Russian offensive against Germany during World War II
The first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laws restricting the political, economic, and social well-being of African Americans after the Civil War
What were the black codes?
Author of the "95 Theses"
Who is Martin Luther?
Declaration made by Abraham Lincoln that "freed" slaves in 1863
Compromise that enabled Germany to annex the Sudetenland under the condition that Germany would not invade Czechoslovakia
What was the Munich Agreement?
Leader of the independent labor union, Solidarity
Who was Lech Walsea?
The Indian Territory designated to be the residence of native populations forcibly removed from lands east of the Mississippi River
Where is Oklahoma?
What is mercantilism?
Compromise made between congressmen that enforced a stricter fugitive slave law and abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
Leader of British forces in the Middle East during World War I
Who is T.E. Lawrence?
The 1961 failed overthrow of Fidel Castro (as orchestrated by the United States government)
What was the Bay of the Pigs invasion?
A French Revolution-era political club made up primarily of middle-class lawyers and intellectuals
Who were the Jacobins?
Thinker who justified autocracy through religious reasoning
Who is Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet?
King who invited Portuguese missionaries into the Kingdom of Kongo in order to establish a modern Christian state
Who is Afonso I?
Where is Alsace and Lorraine?
A restructuring of the Russian economy and government that involved downsizing the bureaucracy and backing limited private enterprise
What was perestroika?
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?