This was the plan for the United States to financially support European nations after WWII. The Soviet Union refused any of this aid.
What was the Marshall Plan?
100
This idea, set up by Otto von Bismarck, was a series of alliances between Germany and its neighbors.
What is the Bismarck System?
100
These two people introduced some of the NEW TECHNOLOGY of the 20th Century when they built the Kitty Hawk.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
100
This is the individual who came up with the "survival of the fittest" idea. Eventually the idea got transferred to the white race being superior and thus the best.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
100
According to Woodrow Wilson, these were the four requirements for a country to be considered a democracy.
What are: popular sovereignty, a lawmaking body, universal suffrage, and multiple parties?
200
This was the containment policy initiated by the United States in order to keep Communism from spreading to third world countries.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This is the main activity that historians spend their time trying to do.
What is reinterpreting history?
200
This philosopher, most famous for his quote "God is dead and we have killed him," posited ideas like a Superman (a race of extraordinary men) that, when taken out of context inspired Naziism.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
200
This is the individual who coined the term natural selection and thought that organisms randomly progress from one state to another as discussed in the books Origins of the Species and Descent of Man.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This event was the proximate cause of World War I. Without this event, conflict would not have been sparked.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
300
This was the reform plan FDR implemented to get the United States out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
300
In this film starring Brad Pitt, it is easy to see the horrors of World War I such as barbed wire, mustard gas, and trench warfare.
What is Legends of the Fall?
300
This individual, upset by social and political conflict, decided that governments and institutions are evil (because their main concern is profit and not people) so subscribed to the theory of anarchism.
Who is Emma Goldman?
300
This is the individual who expressed the ideas that African Americans should "cast down where they are" (stay in the South) and could coexist with white Americans "like fingers on a hand."
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This was the German tactic for World War I - take France first because Russia would not be a threat until later.
What is the Schliefflen Plan?
400
This deal between Mussolini and the Catholic Church gave the Vatican its independence in return for the Church encouraging the predominantly Catholic Italians to support Mussolini's rule.
What is the Lateran Agreement?
400
In opposition to conscientious objection, this term refers to the philosophy of nonviolence and nonresistance ALWAYS based on Biblical commandments.
What is pacifism?
400
Not to be confused with drought, a naturally occurring event, this crisis in India brought attention to an increasingly global economy and the economic inequality inherent in that system.
What is famine?
400
This is the individual who was in charge of the Manhattan Project and the development of the Atomic Bomb in the United States. He is also on the screen of the fat guy in Jurassic Park.
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
400
This event led to Hitler's arrest and imprisonment, but taught him to go about his takeover through non violent methods and also gave him a platform to spread his ideas.
What is the Beer Hall Putsch?
500
This writing technique exemplified by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and James Joyce mimics the natural interior monologue - the writing exemplifies the way people actually think.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
500
This individual was both a famous conscientious objector and a medic in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
Who is Desmond T. Doss?
500
This major uprising in China was in reaction to the spheres of influence being set up throughout the country by European nations, and highlights aggression and reactions to it in international relations.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
500
This person threatened to march against FDR if an executive order wasn't issued banning discrimination in the defense industry and armed forces of the United States. He was one of the earliest Civil Rights activists.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
This was the idea that European countries would be divided up in terms of amount of influence each major world power had on it. Example: Germany post WWII being split among USSR, US, Great Britain, and France.