This invention enabled mine operators to pump water out of deep mines rather than having it bailed out by women and children.
What is the steam engine?
100
Russia's involvement in this war inspired the Russian Revolution.
What is World War I?
100
This is the political ideology that appealed to the poor and the working class; it advocated the overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat and the communal ownership of industry and commerce.
What is socialism?
100
These empires made up the Central Powers.
What are the German empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire.
100
He is the the founder of Fascism.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
This is the system in which all modes of production, such as spinning yarn, weaving cloth, and producing end products like clothing, were all done in one location.
What is the factory system?
200
This peasant mystic had an unusual amount of influence over the Tsarina of Russia and an unusual reluctance to die.
Who is Grigorii Rasputin?
200
This is the political ideology that considered the government's job to be protecting social, economic, and political liberties, but not for everyone, just the bourgeoisie.
What is liberalism?
200
These three countries were the primary members of the Allied Powers at the beginning of World War I.
What are Britain, France, and Russia?
200
The D-Day invasion involved the landing of American, British, and Canadian forces on the beaches of this region of France.
What is Normandy?
300
This mineral resource became the primary method of producing energy during the Industrial Revolution and had a lot of positive and negative effects on Europe.
What is coal?
300
This royal family was assassinated by Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
Who are the Romanovs?
300
This political persuasion sought to prevent a reoccurence the liberal revolutions that had caused so many problems in the 18th century, particularly in France.
What is conservatism?
300
It is in this region that the nationalist conflicts occured which helped spark World War I.
What is the Balkans?
300
This was the failed attempt to overthrow the Weimar government by Hitler's Nazis.
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?
400
This was the pre-Industrial Revolution way of producing goods; everything was made in the home.
What is the domestic system?
400
This man was supposed to become the leader of Communist Russia after Lenin, but was exiled and eventually ordered assassinated by Joseph Stalin.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
400
this is the idea that society moved inevitably and progressively from one stage to another through conflict.
What is the dialectic?
400
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this Bosnian city.
What is Sarajevo?
400
This president of Germany appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor.
Who is Paul von Hindenberg?
500
This industry was the first to benefit from the new technologies developed in the Industrial Revolution; the new methods of production in this industry helped Europe's economies grow to unprecedented levels.
What is the textile industry?
500
This is the treaty signed by the Russian Revolutionaries that took Russia out of World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This is the idea that people in the 19th century were becoming more aware of the inequalities in society based on their social class.
What is class consciousness?
500
This was the German battle plan in World War I which had Germany invading France through Belgium, while the smaller Austrian army held off the Russian army, which Germany thought would be slow to mobilize.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
500
This communique was the primary reason for the US's entry into World War II; it was an offer by Germany to help Mexico regain territories lost to the US in exchange for Mexico's cooperation in the war.