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World War II/ Other Wars
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Famous People
100
The French Revolution began because this man raised the taxes paid by the 3rd Estate.
Who is King Louis XVI?
100
Prior to WWI European nations did this because they believed they could use force to get what they wanted.
What is built up their military power?
100
The bombing of this U.S. city led the United States to join WWII on the side of the allies.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
These three inventions helped to create a need for textile industries and the industrial revolution.
What is the spinning jenny, the flying loom, and the flying shuttle?
100
Under this man's rule, the Soviet Union became a totalitarian state.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
These people from Latin America tried to change their government because they wanted to be free of peninsular rule.
Who were the creoles?
200
This event started or sparked WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian Nationalist?
200
This war took place from 1950 - 1953.
What is the Korean War?
200
In this type of economic system all industries are owned by the government and run for the benefit of all the people.
What is socialism?
200
This U.S. president from Missouri was the first American leader to fight the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
300
The independence of this South American country was achieved peacefully.
What is Brazil?
300
This was the official policy of the U.S. towards war at the onset of WWI.
What is neutrality?
300
When more and more Americans began to question why we were there in the first place, the U.S. finally pulled out of this war.
What is Vietnam?
300
The completion of this project in Egypt shortened the sea route from Europe to Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
This man believed that in a capitalist system, the government should practice "laissez-faire" economics.
Who was Adam Smith?
400
The Bolsheviks promised this to the people of Russia.
What is "peace, land, and bread?"
400
Germans were angry after WWI because this document made them accept full responsibility for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
During this war the United States and the Soviet Union both prepared for war, but never actually fought one another.
What is the Cold War?
400
Crop rotation had this effect on farming.
What is it made soil more fertile?
400
This man was the last Soviet Premier before the fall of communism in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
Napoleon was defeated here in 1815.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
500
These nations made up the triple entente.
What is France, Great Britain and the United States?
500
Because of this policy Hitler was able to spread his fascist state without military action.
What is appeasement?
500
During this period, the U.S. could not invest in the businesses of other countries and this had a great affect on the world economy.
What is the Great Depression?
500
These two men were the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the 1960's, who almost put us into a nuclear war.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev?
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