WORLD WAR I
This event is commonly recognized as the spark that started World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
World War II began in 1939 when Germany invaded this European country.
What is Poland?
This empire, which had ruled much of the Muslim world for centuries, collapsed at the end of World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This political system features a single-party dictatorship that controls all aspects of life.
What is totalitarianism?
This 1776 American document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This belief (or system) allowed many European nations to control and appropriate natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
What is Imperialism / New Imperialism?
One of the Allied powers in World War II.
What is Great Britain/ United States/ the Soviet Union / France / China
He is considered most prominent political figure of Arab nationalism.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
This Italian leader founded fascism and ruled Italy as “Il Duce.”
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This French estate, representing the common people, broke away in 1789 and started the French Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
This European country was the colonial occupier of the Congo.
What is Belgium?
These Japanese cities were destroyed by the Americans using atomic weapons.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This nationalist leader abolished the caliphate and modernized Turkey after World War I.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
This Russian leader forced millions of peasants onto state-run farms, causing widespread famine.
What is Josef Stalin?
This French estate represented the Church leaders.
What is the clergy?
This accord indicates the terms of the official end of World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
These countries were the Axis powers in World II.
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
This political and cultural ideology asserts that all Arabs constitute a single nation
What is Arab Nationalism?
The Nazis and their collaborators systematically murdered this number of people.
What is 17 to 20 million?
This enslaved man became the leading figure of the Haitian Revolution and helped make Haiti the first Black republic.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, helping turn American opinion against Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
This surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This was a series of pro-democracy protests across the Middle East and North Africa, beginning in late 2010
What is the Arab Spring?
Nazis were tried at these trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946.
What are trials of Nuremberg?
A slogan or phrase used by American colonists to protest British taxes, arguing it was unconstitutional to be taxed by a government in which they had no elected representatives
What is taxation without representation?