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This country declared war on Germany in April, 1917 in response to u-boat attacks on its shipping over the previous two months.
What was the United States?
100
Armored vehicle introduced by the British at the Battle of the Somme
What was a tank?
100
What environmental factor contributed most significantly to Russia's high casualty figures during World War I?
What is extremely cold weather during the winters?
100
By using the phrase "Determined for Battle" from a sacred Hindu text (the Bhagavad Gita) the designers of this WWI poster used which trick of propaganda?
What is transfer?
Arjun & Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita - "Determined for Battle"
100
Global event that ended the Great Depression
What was World War II?
100
This European country first granted some women the right to vote in 1918.
What is the UK? or What is Britain?
200
This member of the Triple Alliance chose not to remain allies with Germany and Austria-Hungary at the start of World War I.
What was Italy?
200
The German name for a submarine during the World Wars.
What was a u-boat?
200
Derogatory term often used to describe a Latin American country that relied almost exclusively on the export of a single agricultural product.
What is a "banana republic?"
200
Russia shared a Slavic heritage with this Balkan country and looked to protect it from attack by larger countries in Eastern Europe.
What is Serbia?
200
Name for payments that the German government was required to pay to the allies after World War I
What are reparations?
200
The Provisional government in this country recruited women to join combat units to fight against the Central Powers in 1917.
What was Russia?
300
Term used to refer to a dictator in a Latin American country
Porfirio Diaz of Mexico was one of these.
What is a caudillo?
Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic was also a caudillo.
300
This was the term used by Stalin to describe his program for modernizing Russia from 1928 to 1932?
What was the first five year plan?
300
This island location became a safe haven for the Guomindang leadership after Jiang Jieshi was defeated by the communists in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
What is Taiwan? or What is Formosa?
300
This Mexican painter created the giant mural of "The History of Mexico."
Who was Diego Rivera?
300
What happened to many banks after the stock market crash in October of 1929?
Many banks closed due to lack of funds.
300
Outlaw in photo who became a hero to the peasants in southern Mexico during the Mexican Revolution from 1910 - 1920.
Who was Emiliano Zapata?
400
Term used prior to World War I to describe the process of transporting men and supplies to key locations in preparation for war.
What is "mobilization?"
400
These Scandinavian countries turned to state socialism in response to the Great Depression.
What are Sweden and Norway?
400
Giant construction project facilitated by the independence of Panama from Colombia in 1903
What was the Panama Canal?
400
Who created this self portrait in 1939?
Who was Frida Kahlo?
400
Mohandas Gandhi sponsored a boycott and burning of this British product in the 1921 to encourage the British to quit India.
What was British cloth?
400
This particular class of farmers were one of Stalin's primary targets during the Great Purge.
Who were the kulaks?
"Let us destroy the kulaks as a class."
Soviet propaganda portrayed kulaks as enemies of the state.
500
Crime for which Gandhi was arrested and served more than a year in prison from 1922 - 1924
What is sedition?
500
Type of government spending advocated by John Maynard Keynes which called for governments to spend more than their revenues.
What is deficit spending?
500
The development of synthetic rubber in the early 1900s had a negative impact on the demand for natural rubber from this Belgian colony.
What is Congo? or What is the Belgian Congo?
500
Name for a traditional tool used in India for spinning thread
What is a charkha?
500
Name of the economic policy that Lenin adopted in 1921 to promote economic growth in Russia after the first world war and a civil war had ravaged the country.
What was the New Economic Policy?
500
Term used for women who fought in the Mexican Revolution
Who were Adelitas? or Who were Soldaderas?
