World History
This policy of expanding a country’s power through colonization and control of other regions.
What is imperialism?
This event in 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This is the tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
This composer wrote “Moonlight Sonata” and became deaf later in life.
Who is Beethoven?
This is the force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This movement in the 1500s split Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant branches.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This country has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
This genre often features DJs, electronic beats, and remixing.
What is EDM?
This is the process where water turns into vapor due to heat.
What is evaporation?
This empire built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
This Supreme Court case established that “separate but equal” was constitutional (later overturned).
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This sea is known for being very salty and is bordered by Jordan and Israel.
What is the Dead Sea?
The drummer of Nirvana before joining Foo Fighters.
Who is Dave Grohl?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
This 1917 revolution led Russia to exit World War I and eventually establish communist rule.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
This policy of avoiding alliances and foreign conflicts influenced U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1800s.
What is isolationism?
This mountain range separates Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains
This term describes a group of four musicians performing together.
What is a quartet?
This organ system includes the lungs and helps you breathe.
What is the respiratory system?
This 19th-century independence leader helped free several South American countries from Spanish rule.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This Cold War doctrine stated the U.S. would resist the spread of communism anywhere in the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This strait separates Asia from North America at the closest point between Russia and Alaska.
What is the Bering Strait?
This musical term means to gradually get louder.
What is crescendo?
This is the system in the human body that includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is the nervous system?