I was the first to argue for heliocentrism rather than geocentrism in a scientific way.
Who is Copernicus?
100
These allowed for the production of goods to move outside of people's homes and often harnessed the power of water or coal to run large-scale machines.
What are factories?
100
The war was marked by this new type of battle.
What is trench warfare?
100
Angry at the lack of food and supplies, poor leadership, and their disastrous war record, the people of Russia eventually supported this communist party's revolution.
What is the Bolshevik Party?
100
This attack on December 7, 1941 brought the US into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
After the Estates General's meeting fell into disarray a group from the Third Estate, locked out of the meeting hall, met to make this declaration.
What is the Tennis Court Oath.
200
This meeting involved the countries of Europe meeting to split up Africa; African leaders were not invited.
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
Give two technological weapons advances during World War I.
What are: tanks, submarines, machine guns, poison gas, airplanes for surveying/fighting?
200
This term refers to the young people who reached maturity during or just after the Great War; it has many layers of significance.
What is the Lost Generation?
200
Neville Chamberlain advocated for this policy which promised "peace in our time"
What is appeasement?
300
Taking control after the Directory fell into disarray, he extended French power over a great deal of Europe before eventually facing exile (twice!)
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
300
These economists argued that "oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight"
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
300
While I originally had signed an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, I ended up fighting on the Allied side rather than with the Central Powers.
What is Italy?
300
He led the Salt March and advocated the principles of ahimsa and satyagraha.
Who is Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi?
300
He tried to be a totalitarian leader but was never fully able to wrest control from the pope or the king.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
400
He is best known as the leader of the Haitian Revolution
Who is Touissant L'Overture?
400
This Scottish economist argued for the ideas of laissez-faire, noting that man is "led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."
Who is Adam Smith?
400
This group in Serbia and Bosnia was responsible for the assassination of this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
What is the Black Hand and who is Franz Ferdinand?
400
Sigmund Freud noted that most of our ideas and actions are inspired by this part of the brain.
What is the subconscious?
400
After having established the mandate system and promised an independent state to two different groups, this colonial power left Palestine's division to the United Nations.
What is Britain?
500
Robespierre argued that these two qualities are necessary for a revolutionary government to operate properly.
What are terror and virtue?
500
This tree bark, which came from South America, was discovered to prevent and soothe malarial symptoms, helping European colonialism.
What is quinine (or Jesuit bark)?
500
As US president, I argued for the establishment of key ideas that would make the world a safer and more peaceful place, including self-determination, in this statement:
Who is Woodrow Wilson and what are the Fourteen Points?
500
This Dadaist created such works as "Fountain".
Who is Marcel DuChamp?
500
When the Soviet Union cut off Western access to Berlin, this operation kept them fed, clothed, and warm.