The Middle Ages / Renaissance & Reformation
What disease outbreak killed 1/3- 2/3 of Europe's entire population?
The Black Death
The _____________________ was Hitler's attempted genocide of Jews in Europe.
Holocaust
WWII officially ended with the United States dropping the atomic bombs on
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
Which of the following is NOT one of the ways Enlightenment ideas spread during the 1700s?
a. Cell Phones
b. Newspaper
c. Paperback books
d. Pamphlets
Cell Phones
Japan attacked ________________ in Hawaii at 7:53 am on December 7th, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
The ______________ race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore outer space.
Space
Al-Qaeda terrorists high-jacked four United States airline airplanes and flew one into the Pentagon, one crashed into a field, and the other two crashed into the Twin Towers during the ______________ attacks in 2001.
9/11
In the year 1609, Galileo Galilei invented the first
telescope to look into space
What ethnicity introduced America to Jazz during the Roaring 20s?
African Americans
To show our disapproval of the atheist communist country the Soviet Union, we added what words to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954?
"Under God"
What is globalization? Do you agree with globalization?
The interaction and sharing of goods/ideas of people, companies, and governments worldwide
What kind of people are interested in human society and the natural world?
Humanists
The American Revolution (1775-1783) was fought between who?
America & Great Britain
The Zimmerman Telegram was a message sent from Germany to ______________ telling them they should invade the United States.
Mexico
The ________________ Missile Crisis was a 13 day standoff after finding Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
Cuban
During the ________________, Christians were fighting to win their land back from the Muslims.
Crusades
Isaac Newton's greatest discovery was his law of _______________.
Gravity
What is considered the beginning of the Great Depression?
The stock market crashing in 1929
The two wars that were fought during the Cold War to try and push back communist aggression were the
Korean War & Vietnam War