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A panic about LGBTQ+ paralleling the Red Scare during the McCarthy era.
What is the Lavender Scare?
This person is regarded as the most prodigious warlord in history.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This fundamental concept of math was developed first by Al-Khwarizmi in a book called Al-Jabr.
What is algebra?
This Inflation Crisis led to citizens using their currency as fuel for fire.
What is the German Inflation Crisis?
This country is considered the world’s newest founded country.
What is South Sudan?
To pass the Social Security Act, FDR partnered with Southern Dixiecrats on the condition that this group of workers was left out of the bill.
Who were agricultural workers?
The last dynasty of the Chinese Empire that ruled from 1644-1911.
What is the Qing dynasty?
This Arab nationalism movement was famously associated with Saddam Hussein.
What is Ba'athism?
A war between England and France after France claimed it could rule over England, as the Norman family ruling there was nominally French. When no male heir was born to the French sovereigns, however, the Normans claimed they could also rule over France. This conflict also gave rise to one of the most renowned warrior-saints in history, Joan of Arc.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?
Kwame Nkrumah led this country to independence from Britain in 1957, the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Ghana?
This purchase during the Napoleonic Era extended the U.S.'s borders past the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In 1947, this South Asian country was partitioned from India, leading to one of the largest mass migrations in history.
In 1922, this empire fell.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The King of the Franks in the 8th century and later the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, he was the symbolic “defender of Christianity” and united much of western and central Europe.
Who is Charlamagne?
This North African city, once rivaling Rome, was home to Hannibal, who famously crossed the Alps with elephants.
What is Carthage?
This period, from 1865-1877, attempted to establish social equality in the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This Chinese leader instituted the policies of “reform and opening” and introduced the idea of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
During this year, the Six Day War began.
What is 1967?
The third and final phase of the French Revolution, the “Reign of Terror”, was led by this Frenchman.
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
Known for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, this ruler of Mali displayed his immense wealth in gold.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This economic policy of the Reagan Administration, also known as supply-side economics, boosted overall GDP but also deeply increased wealth inequality.
What is Reaganomics/Trickle-Down Economics?
Known as the commander behind the Pearl Harbor Attack in December 1941, he reportedly warned Japan against attacking the U.S., to no avail.
Who was Isoroku Yamamoto?
This country comprises the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon.
What is Iraq?
This famous trial convicted Martin Luther of heresy.
What is The Diet of Worms.?
This U.S. politician/businessowner is alleged to own cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Who is Elon Musk?