The nationalist group that claimed responsibility for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
What is "The Black Hand"?
100
The historical investigation assignment that will be available for pick-up tomorrow (!)
What is the Internal Assessment?
100
The Canadian portion of Mr. McFarland's particular collection of these items occupies space on the walls of Room 102.
What are Canadian license plates?
100
Every single thing that has ever happened before this moment.
What is "the past"?
If you answered "history" MINUS 100.
200
Red against Green against White.
What is the Russian Civil War?
200
Often called a long-term cause of the war, this reality was seen as a way to ensure national security -- it often drew nations and empires into conflicts they otherwise would not be involved with.
What is the Alliance System?
200
The command phrase most often associated with an IB History examination question.
What is "To what extent...."?
200
The flag previously flown on Mr. McFarland's classroom door is called this.
What is the Cascadian flag?
200
This phenomenon suggest that the closer in time you are to an event, the more LIMITED your perspective often is; you don't have the context to understand all that is going on.
What is "proximity"?
300
Assumed power in Russia following the abdication of Alexander II.
What is the provisional government?
300
Military strategy enacted by Germany when it assumed that France would fight a largely defensive war.
What is the "Schlieffen Plan"?
300
The abbreviation that describes what you as a historian ought to do when evaluating a source.
What is OPVL? (Origin, Purpose, Value, Limitation).
300
The photograph Mr. McFarland showed to the class that announced he's got a new job (a Dad) starting in the Fall was taking in which city?
What is New York City?
300
Historians must assess the sources they use. The "V" and the "L" in OPVL stand for these.
What is "Value" and "Limitation"?
400
A general factor for the emergence of a totalitarian state. In the context of Russia, Marx's "Communist Manifesto" may be seen as influential in this regard.
What is "guiding ideology"?
400
In a "total war", this place is affected by the ravages of the war equal to that of a battlefield.
What is the Homefront?
400
All revised IAs are due just before this major holiday next academic year.
What is Canadian Thanksgiving?
400
The phrase often used sarcastically by Mr. McFarland when he is alerting students to an important fact or issue (so he is told, anyway!)
What is "Spoiler Alert!"? (others??? I'm open to points being bought!)
400
The version of events -- whether real or somewhat imagined -- that we believe (or want to believe) about ourselves. Usually in the context of nationalism.
What is "grand narrative" or what is "myth"?
500
A phrase that refers to the campaign of mass killings, torture, and systematic oppression conducted by the Bolsheviks after seizing power in Petrograd and Moscow.
What is the Red Terror?
500
The building of thousands of "cenotaph" monuments in town centres across Canada and throughout the British Empire and the exalting of "Armistice Day" to a national holiday after the war are examples of this process of honouring the past.
What is "commemoration"? ("Remembrance" scores 200 points only)
500
The cumulative total of hours of IB History examinations (Papers 1, 2, and 3) you will complete at the end of the Grade 12 year!!! :S
What are five?
500
The theological term that would best describe the framed quotation above the doorway of Mr. McFarland's classroom that most students aren't aware is even there!
What is a "benediction"? (200 points only for "commission")
500
When a historian challenges the generally agreed-upon version of events, that new version of history is known by this phrase or word.
What is revisionism? or What is historical revision? (200 points for "unorthodox")