These were two conflicts between China and England in the 19th century over trade policy.
What are the Opium Wars?
100
This event led to confrontation between Serbia and Austria and the beginning of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
This economic problem crippled Germany in the 1920s.
What is inflation?
100
The Japanese attack at this U.S. military base in Hawaii led to U.S. involvement in World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
"The Night of Broken Glass" when Jewish synagogues, homes, and businesses were destroyed.
What is Kristallnacht?
200
The Prussian leader who unified Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
This book was written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929 and depicted the trench warfare of WWI in very vivid and horrifying ways.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
200
This ideology took hold in parts of Europe after World War I. It stresses ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism.
What is fascism?
200
This German action is considered the beginning of World War II.
What is the invasion of Poland?
200
These anti-Semitic laws passed in 1935 in Germany stripped Jews of citizenship rights and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
300
Japan and Russia fought in the early 20th century over control of this territory.
What is Korea?
300
This country switched sides in the middle of the war and ended up fighting with the Allies.
What is Italy?
300
Hitler wrote this autobiography in 1925 after his failed coup attempt in Germany.
What is Mein Kampf?
300
This German term translates to "lightning war." Hitler used this strategy to overwhelm his opponents and take a great deal of land at the beginning of World War II.
What is blitzkrieg?
300
Anti-Semitism was nothing new in Europe. In the Middle Ages, Jews were blamed for spreading this disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
400
This key terms means that foreigners using Chinese or Japanese ports to trade would not be subject to Chinese or Japanese laws, they would be tried in their home countries.
What is extraterritoriality?
400
The Treaty of Versailles took this heavily industrial area away from Germany and gave it to France as punishment.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
400
Italy invaded this country in 1935 as a show of force after it had failed to colonize the country in the late 19th century.
What is Ethiopia?
400
These were the two Japanese cities that were bombed by the United States using atomic weapons in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
He was the head of the SS and eventually formed the mobile killing units and eventually concentration camps that were responsible for killing 6 million Jews.
Who is Heinrich Himmler?
500
The Serbian leader who modernized Serbia and made it more independent from Austria.
Who is King Peter?
500
This treaty was signed by Russia and the Central Powers in 1918. It removed Russia from the hostilities.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
The name of the Spanish dictator who took control after the Spanish Civil War in which he received support from the Nazis and Italian fascists.
Who is Francisco Franco?
500
This battle in the Soviet Union in 1942-1943 lasted for 5 months and is considered a major turning point in World War II when the Soviets were able to defeat the Nazis and go on the offensive.
What is Stalingrad?
500
The name for the mobile killing units that began killing Jews in Polish ghettos before the Final Solution.