People
Terms
1900-1919
1920-1945
1945-Present
100
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
The leader of the United States during WWII.
100

What is Nationalism?

Extreme pride in one's country.

100
What single event sparked the start of WWI?
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
100
____________ what what German's called the Holocaust during WWII.
The Final Solution
100

This man led the Independence movement of India against Britain.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
200
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The leader of the Soviet Union from the 1930s until after WWII.
200

Laws aimed at discriminating against Jewish people in Germany and depriving them of employment, and later sending them to ghettos and eventually prison or extermination camps.

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

200

What was the League of Nations?

Precursor to the Untied Nations; a body created after WWI to try and prevent future wars and was part of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points peace plan.

200

These countries made up the Axis Powers in WWII.

Who was Germany, Italy, and Japan?
200

This man invaded South Korea sparking the Korean conflict.

Who was Kim Il Sung?
300
Who was Winston Churchill?
The leader of Britain during WWII.
300

The policy of extending a country's power through diplomacy, or military force.

What is imperialism? 
300

These are generally considered the reasons for WWI.

What is MANIA, or militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and assassination? 
300
Give two reasons Truman dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan.
Many Japanese citizens would have died; Many American soldiers would have died; Japanese citizens were trained to fight to the death; it quickly ended the war
300
What is Civil Disobedience?
Peacefully breaking an unfair or unjust law.
400

The artist known for the fresco painted on the Sisten Chapel's ceiling and his life like sculptures. 

Who was Michelangelo?

400
A system of segregation between white colonists and Africans and Indians in South Africa that Ghandhi organized against as a young man. 
What is apartheid?
400

What was unique about WWI?

The death toll caused by new weaponry, and technology.

400
Who were three famous Allied generals?
Who was Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, or DE Gaulle? 
400

What was the name of the conflict that pitted America against USSR?

What was the Cold War?
500

Artist known as a true Renaissance Man for his work as a painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, amongst other things. 

Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?

500

This group of people of Spanish descent living in Latin America led the movement for Independence in many of Spain's former colonies.

Who were the Creoles?

500

This led to resentment from Germany, and challenging economic conditions that led in part to the rise of extreme nationalism.

What was the Treaty of Versailles?
500

Who was Neville Chamberlain?

The British leader who tried to appease Adolf Hitler.

500

What conflicts came out of the Cold War?

What was the Korean War and Vietnam War?
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