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What was the Lusitania?
A British luxury liner sunk by the Germans as part of the Germans' effort to stop supplies reaching Britain. 200 Americans died and this event almost brought the US to war with Germany
What is Gavrilo Princip remembered for?
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
What was the nickname give to the European takeover of African nations?
The "scramble for Africa"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir apparent (future king) of which nation?
Austria-Hungary
Describe what the opium wars were about:
China refused opium from England, but England forced the nation to become addicted through two wars it won
What does the word "raj" mean (think of India and the British):
Raj means "rule" or British control over India
Created vaccines, considered the "father of microbiology":
Louis Pasteur
Define what the Zimmermann telegram was:
The German foreign office sent a message to the Mexican foreign office offering help to Mexico in regaining lost lands in the US (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico) if Mexico joined the war against the US.
This person pushed for the Franco-Prussian War, as he used it to unify the German states:
Otto von Bismarck
The sepoy rebellion had what issue at its core?
Indian soldiers (sepoys) refused to use British Enfield rifles which required greasing the barrels with hog or beef fat, which went against their religious views
What did the phrase often used by British officers "Over the top" mean?
The order for soldiers to come out of the trenches in World War I to move forward and attack the enemy
Urged a Zionist (Israeli) state in ancestral Palestine.
Theodor Herzl
France's worst antisemitic incident of a Jewish officer in the French Army was called the:
Dreyfus Affair
Arrived penniless in 1848 to the US from Scotland and sold his company US Steel in 1901 for $480 million:
Andrew Carnegie
Define what caused the Boxer Rebellion in China:
Chinese martial artists, called "boxers", fought back against western intervention, thinking their skills and mysticism would make them impervious to bullets
The "Schlieffen Plan" referred to what?
Invasion plans (through Belgium and France) proposed by German planner Alfred von Schlieffen
Fought for women's suffrage (voting rights), even attacking the police and setting off bombs to further the cause.
Emmaline Pankhurst
What war saw the first time an Asian nation defeated an European nation?
1902 Russo-Japan War; Russia is so large it actually is considered on both the European and Asian continents!!
What did African American W.E.B. du Bois do that brought him international fame?
Gave a powerful speech and stood strong for African American equality
Which European king required Congolese men to find rubber and elephant tusks or risk losing their hands, or even their wives and children?
King Leopold of Belgium
Define what the Balfour Declaration was about:
A British proposal that Jews worldwide should have their own nation in their ancestral homeland of Palestine
Wrote The Inequality of the Races and laid the foundation for racist ideas.....
Arthur de Gobineau
List some of the items that defined the Second Industrial Revolution:
Electricity, steel, chemicals ...
Owned "Standard Oil", monopolizing all the chemicals, railcars, and other materials to make himself super rich.
John D. Rockefeller
What sparked the Boer War in South Africa?
Britain fought Dutch settlers first over gold, then over control of the land