The performance of this ballet by Igor Stravinsky in Paris, 1913, led to a near riot in the streets after the show.
What is "The Rite of Spring?"
100
This American project, completed in 1914, significantly shortened the shipping time between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
This post-war assembly tried both to punish Germany for starting the Great War and to set up an international arbitration body in the League of Nations to prevent future wars.
What is the Versailles Peace Conference?
100
This institution allowed for the removal of large numbers of Africans from their communities to provide physical labor in fields and mines in the Americas.
What is slavery?
100
British ship sunk off the coast of Ireland in May 1915 that pushed the Americans closer to the Allied side in the Great War.
What is the "Lusitania?"
200
Painters such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky used this style of painting to break free from the limits of traditional representational art.
What is Abstract Expressionism?
200
1924 agreement that allowed Germany to pay reparations at a lower more affordable rate and included an initial $200 million American loan for German economic recovery.
What is the Dawes Plan?
200
This agreement between Germany and the Soviet government of Russia, arrived at in March 1918, removed Russia from what Lenin called the "great imperialist war."
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
200
This project, completed in November 1859, was overseen by a Frenchman, but most of its benefits derived to the British.
What is the Suez Canal?
200
Cremation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre.
What is "sati?"
300
This approach to art is best symbolized by Marcel Duchamp’s entry of a porcelain urinal in a 1917 New York art exhibit.
What is Dadaism?
300
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 official rejection of the use of force in Latin America to further American aims in that region.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
300
Terms of this treaty put a stop to the fighting in the Russo-Japanese War but not before Japan was able to regain the Liaodong Peninsula, the southern part of Sakhalin Island, and the Kurile Islands.
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
300
A fight between the British and the Afrikaners of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State over gold and diamonds discovered in the area.
What is the Boer War?
300
November 1938 event in Germany in which dozens of synagogues were burned, thousands of Jewish-owned businesses destroyed, and at least one hundred Jews killed.
What is "Kristallnacht?"
400
Louis H. Sullivan’s architectural style that featured reinforced concrete, steel frames, electric elevators, and sheet glass.
What is the Chicago school of architecture?
400
The American corporation that played a significant role in the formation of “banana republics” throughout Central America.
What is the United Fruit Company?
400
Humiliating defeat and terms forced on the Qing dynasty in 1860; legalizing the opium trade, opening much of China to foreign trade, and the cession of Kowloon to the British.
What is the Treaty of Tianjin?
400
Synthetic culture on the East African coast that combined elements of Arabic and indigenous societies.
What is Swahili?
400
The “shirtless ones” who supported General Juan Perón in his quest to be president of Argentina in 1946.
Who are the "descanisados?"
500
First used by James Joyce in his 1922 novel, "Ulysses," this approach to writing gave the reader a look at the lives of ordinary people through the use of an inner monologue.
What is the "stream of consciousness technique?"
500
The institutionalized political party of the revolution that subverted true democracy in Mexico for most of the twentieth century.
What is the PRI?
500
Treaty that ended the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and gave nominal independence to the Korean peninsula, and ceded Taiwan and the Liaodong peninsula to Japan.
What is the Treaty of Shimonoseki?
500
This near-conflict arose from the British and the French both claiming territory in south Sudan in the late 1890s.
What is the Fashoda crisis?
500
Traditional Vietnamese fish sauce whose production the Chinese in Saigon came to dominate in the late nineteenth century.