United States
The second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This military officer brought independence to northern parts of Latin America.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The assassination of this figure in 1914 led to the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What is India?
This political leader became the first Black President of South Africa in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This 1803 land deal that doubled the size of the United States and gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This was a large plantation system originally set up by the Spanish to encourage colonists in North America to go to Latin America.
What is the encomienda system?
This French monarch was sentenced to death via the guillotine in 1793.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The last dynasty of Imperial China.
King Tutankhamun was this old when he died as Pharaoh of Egypt around 1324 B.C.
What is 18 years old?
This American couple was executed in 1953 for allegedly passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
This man was the president of Argentina twice and both times he had a different wife.
Who is Juan Peron?
The first Chancellor of Germany and was instrumental in the unification of the German states in 1871.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The event that restored imperial rule in Japan and marked the beginning of a Westernized, modernized Imperial Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
He was the Emperor of the Mali Empire from 1312 to 1337 and is widely regarded as the richest man in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The nativist political movement in the 1850s which opposed immigration and Catholic influence, earning its nickname from members’ evasive answers when questioned.
Who are the Know-Nothings?
This Latin American country was the first to give women the right to vote in 1929.
What is Ecuador?
This cult was created during the French Revolution by Maximilien Robespierre.
What is the Cult of the Supreme Being?
The longest serving president of Indonesia who came into power via coup.
Who is Suharto?
The President of this African country nationalized the Suez Canal, prompting the international “Suez Crisis” involving the United Kingdom, United States, and France.
What is Egypt?
The infamous Confederate assault on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg that ended in failure.
What is Pickett's Charge?
These communities in remote areas of Brazil were originally created by groups of runaway slaves from the 16th to 19th century and still flourish today.
What are Quilombos?
This series of civil wars in England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York during the 15th century ended with Henry of Tudor becoming King.
What are The Wars of the Roses?
A rebellion in 19th century China by a syncretist religious movement whose leader thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This African country was invaded by the Italian Fascist Dictator Mussolini in 1935, prompting the ‘Abyssinian Crisis’.
What is Ethiopia?