WW1
US and Europe
Middle East and Africa
Asia
Latin America
100
Who's holding the gun?
Gavrilo Princip
100
Identify three causes of the Great Depression.
Goods were overproduced; Americans engaged in speculation in the stock market unaware of the risks; Americans bought on credit; Hoover passed the highest tariff rate in US history making it harder for Germany to pay off its reparations debts
100
These reformers overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid II, restored a constitutional government in the Ottoman Empire and tried to unify the different ethnic groups under a single Turkish identify (ie. Turkification)
Young Turks
100
Gandhi's preferred name for the outcastes of India
harijan or "children of god"
100
To prevent Mexico's oil resources from being exploited by foreign companies, the President Lazaro Cardenas created this state-owned institution
PEMEX
200
"Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg"
Schlieffen Plan
200
This Russian leader abdicated his throne during the February Revolution.
Tsar Nicholas II
200
Identify the following ideology:
"Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland. . . Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die." -- Theodor Herzl
Zionism
200
Chiang Kai-shek launched this government-led civic campaign in the 1930s Republic of China to promote cultural reform and Neo-Confucian social moralit to ultimately unite China under a centralised ideology
New Life Movement
200
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office determined to improve relations with the nations of Central and South America. Under his leadership the United States emphasized cooperation and trade rather than military force to maintain stability in the hemisphere. (Name this foreign policy)
Good Neighbor Policy
300
Which countries fought each other on the Western front?
Britain and France versus Germany
300
Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched this initiative to provide relief, recovery and reform during the Great Depression.
The New Deal
300
During WW1 this Christian minority had pushed for their independence from the Ottoman Empire. After WW1, the Ottoman government reacted violently by killing six hundred thousand of these people and forcing another five hundred thousand to march through deserts and swamps in a forced exile.
Armenian Genocide
300
_____________ refers to the idea that the truth will win out. If your cause is on the side of truth and justice then you do not need to use violence to get your way.
Satyagraha - "truth force"
300
Formed in 1929, this political party dominated Mexican politics. Up until 2000, most of Mexico's presidents have been members of this party.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
400
Identify three of Wilson's Fourteen Points
No secret treaties; freedom of the seas; No tariffs; Worldwide reduction of armies; Independence for colonies; The removal of armed forces from Russia and Belgium; French territory should be freed & restored, including Alsace-Lorraine; The borders of Italy will be established; all Italians will be within the country of Italy. Austria-Hungary will continue to be independent' Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania will become independent; Creation of an Independent Turkey; Poland will become independent; Creation of the League of Nations
400
Although Lenin was a communist he launched a program called the __________, which included the return of most agriculture, retail trade, and small-scale light industry to private ownership and management while the state retained control of heavy industry, transport, banking, and foreign trade. Money was reintroduced into the economy in 1922.
New Economic Policy (NEP)
400
This man served as a liaison for the British to promote a sense of Arab nationalism and ultimately lead the Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
T.E. Lawrence
400
After being attacked by the Nationalists in the Shanghai Massacre, Mao led his fellow communists on this 6,000 mile trek around the western perimeter of China's mountainside called ______________.
The Long March
400
Populist Latin American leaders like Juan Peron rose to power claiming to represent these kind of people
descamisados
500
Identify three of the terms agreed to in the Treaty of Versailles
Germany must admit the war was their fault (war guilt clause), Germany must disarm to an army less than 100,000 men, Germany to hand over colonies; Germany must pay $30 billion in damages and reparations; Germany’s navy reduced to 6 battleships with no submarines; Germany forbidden from having an air force; Formation of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia; League of Nations is established to keep peace; Germany was not allowed to join the League of Nations; American Congress did not approve the Treaty and did not join the League of Nations
500
- Take a newspaper.
- Take a pair of scissors.
- Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
- Cut out the article.
- Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
- Shake it gently.
- Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
- Copy conscientiously.
- The poem will be like you.
- And here are you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
--Tristan Tzara
Dadaism
500
Under this secret treaty signed during WW1, a British and French civil servant agreed to divide up the Ottoman Empire. The Syrian coast and much of modern-day Lebanon went to France; Britain would take direct control over central and southern Mesopotamia, around the Baghdad and Basra provinces. Palestine would have an international administration,
The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916
500
the influence and size of these industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period to World War II
zaibatsu
500
This Mexican dictator served seven terms in office until he was challenged by an opponent, Francsico Madero, thereby igniting the Mexican Revolution
Porfirio Diaz