This American President succeeded the presidency after a short time being Vice-President, and would decided to drop two atom bombs on Japan in August of 1945.
Who is Harry S Truman
100
This is a process of extending one's state's or nation's control over another, which takes many forms such as direct military rule or indirect rule.
What is Imperialism
100
This Enlightenment thinker from England is most popularly remembered as the first political economist, and wrote one of the earliest books on the subject titled "The Wealth of Nations," published in 1776.
Who Adam Smith
100
The first war of the 20th century was the first to use innovations such as the hand grenade, tank, bomber planes, and the tactic of trench warfare
What is World War I
100
This Romantic composer wrote emotional symphonies, mostly while completely deaf.
Who is Ludwig von Beethoven
200
This Prussian minister oversaw the creation of the German Empire in 1871 following swift the defeat of the French.
Who is Otto von Bismark
200
This idea came about in France, but was popularized by Karl Marx, focuses on the collective and with industrialization the class collectives.
What is Socialism
200
This German of Jewish background wrote one of the most important manifestos, where he spoke about historical oppression heaped on the poor, serf, working class by the wealthy, noble, lord.
Who is Karl Marx
200
By the end of World War II, tensions rose between the US and the USSR where each country spread its influences all across the globe, spawning this war.
What is The Cold War
200
This American writer wrote about the Depression era, while depicting characters constantly roaming like in his most famous books "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."
Who is John Steinbeck
300
During the scramble for Africa in the late 19th Century, this king of Belgium perpetrated the most brutal treatment of the native population all for financial gain.
Who is King Leopold II
300
This artistic movement was somewhat of a reaction to the industrial revolution, where its practitioners lamented the loss of nature, including a famous story about a "Mad Scientist."
What is Romanticism
300
This Italian leader was considered the muscles to the brain of Camillo Cavour, who led his red shirt army through Sicily to Naples in the later part of the 1880's.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi
300
This war was the so-called "dress rehearsal" for World War II, where Nationalists backed by Franco eventually took over, showing Hitler the lack of French and British will to intervene.
What is Spanish Civil War
300
This English poet and visual artist was ahead of his times by preaching concepts such as free love, abolition of slavery, and free thought while calling the rising factories and mills, "Satanic Mills."
Who is William Blake
400
This Russian leader, along with the Bolsheviks, took down the last czar and after the civil war would become the leader of the Russians until his death in 1924.
Who Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
400
This two word idea was a distorted view of a renown scientist's work, and was used by various racist and anti-Semitic dictators like Adolf Hitler.
What is Social Darwinism
400
Although names after the renown scientist Charles Darwin, the term "Social Darwinism" was actually coined by this conservative British thinker.
Who is Herbert Spencer
400
This quick war, between France and what would become Germany, solidified the power of the Germans - who celebrated in the Hall of Mirrors, in the Palace of Versailles.
What is The Franco-Prussian War
400
This French artist depicted a lot of period pieces on the French Revolution such as "Liberty Leading the People," as well as exotic paintings such as "Women of Algiers."
Who is Eugene Delacroix
500
This French leader came to power during the 1848 revolutions, which swept through other parts of Europe, oversaw the urban renewal of Paris, as well as the nephew of a famous general.
Who is Louis Napoleon Bonaparte or Napoleon III
500
This idea, originated by one of the most influential British Liberals (Jeremy Bentham), is the belief that institutions should produce the "greatest happiness of the greatest number."
What is Utilitarianism
500
This bizarre Russian mystic was brought into the czar's palace, and seen by the czarina as a magic healer. He would later be poisoned, stabbed, shot, rolled into a carpet and thrown into a frozen river.
Who is Grigori Rasputin
500
One of the earliest wars of the 20th century, saw the loss of a mighty empire to a growing Asian empire, thanks in part to Gunboat diplomacy.
What is The Russo-Japanese War
500
This French visual artists of the interwar period, thought his works were meaningless, and played the form and vision such as with his use of shaving cream