Ancient History
This object, inscribed in three scripts, finally allowed scholars to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics,
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This German term for "lightning war" described the swift, coordinated use of tanks and aircraft to breach enemy lines in World War II.
What is the Blitzkrieg?
This 1803 deal with France, overseen by President Thomas Jefferson, roughly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The 18th-century European intellectual movement that emphasized reason, individualism, and skepticism, which profoundly influenced the American and French Revolutions.
What is the Enlightenment?
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This Greek historian wrote The Histories, offering the most detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, earning him the title "Father of History."
Who is Herodotus?
VThis famed battle saw 300 Spartans and a small allied force hold off a much larger Persian army for three days.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
This series of 85 essays, written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, was written to convince New Yorkers to adopt the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This French prison was stormed by a Parisian crowd on July 14, 1789, marking the start of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
This person founded the Mongol Empire in 1206 by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This approximately two hundred years of relative peace and political stability began with the reign of Emperor Augustus.
What is the Pax Romana?
The levée en masse, enacted by the National Convention in 1793, made this the first country to institute universal military conscription for the war effort.
What is France?
This post-Civil War period saw the federal government attempt to integrate former Confederate states and newly freed people into the nation.
What is Reconstruction?
This economic and social policy, enacted by the Soviets in the 1920s to revive the shattered economy, temporarily allowed some private trade and property ownership.
What is the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
This German astronomer and mathematician is best known for formulating the three laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
The first four leaders of the Muslim community after Muhammad's death were called this.
The Rashidun or the Rightly Guided Caliphs
The Union victory in this 1863 battle, fought over three days in Pennsylvania, is considered the major turning point of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This act was passed during the Great Depression in 1935 and established a system of old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid to dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
This 1884–1885 conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa, leading to the rapid, formal division of the continent with no African representation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This Ethiopian Emperor successfully led his nation's resistance against the Italian invasion in the 1890s, securing their independence at the Battle of Adwa.
Who is Menelik II?
Instituted in Athens to prevent any single politician from gaining too much power, this procedure involved writing a citizen's name on a shard of pottery to banish them for ten years.
What is ostracism?
This military doctrine, influenced by the defeat in Vietnam, advocated using swift, overwhelming force to achieve political objectives, as seen in the 1991 Gulf War.
What is the Powell Doctrine?
The Supreme Court case in 1896 which established the doctrine of "separate but equal," validating state-sponsored racial segregation until its reversal in 1954.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This 19th-century conflict, fought between Britain and China, primarily over control of trade, resulted in the cession of Hong Kong to the British.
What is the First Opium War?
Known as the "Father of Modern Turkey," he led the Turkish National Movement and formally abolished the Ottoman Sultanate in 1922.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?