Which World Leader?
Wrote a series of laws in ancient Mesopotamia; for example "an eye for eye"
Hammurabi
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
The colors of the rainbow
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The beginning of WWII
1. Beginning of WWII (1945)
2. Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki (1945)
3. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Ancient Egyptians made their civilization along the ________, which overflowed to provided them transportation and water for farming
Nile River
Allied with Communist Russia in order to get nuclear weapons which threatened the United States in 1962
Fidel Castro
"Men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
The French National Assembly
Laws governing the rights of citizens in the Haitian French colonies were known as the _____ codes.
Black Codes
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution
1. Scientific Revolution (15th century)
2. French Revolution (1789)
3. Haitian Revolution (1791)
4. Industrial Revolution (late 1800s)
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization artifacts can be primarily found in this modern day country
Iraq
Was born enslaved; later enslaved others; later led the Haitian Revolution of 1791
Toussaint Louverture
"Could men who have once enjoyed the benefits of liberty look on calmly while it is taken from them! They bore their chains when they knew no condition of like better than that of slavery."
Toussaint Louverture
The _______ Revolution, otherwise known as the Third Agricultural Revolution, took place after WWII and saw the great increase in farming technologies to feed the developing world
The Green Revolution, otherwise known as the Third Agricultural Revolution, took place after WWII and saw the great increase in farming technologies to feed the developing world
The Berlin Conference (during which Europeans divided up Africa)
WWI
African Decolonization
The founding of the United Nations
1. The Berlin conference (1884)
2. WWI (1914-1919)
3. The Founding of the United Nations (1945)
4. African Decolonization (1950s-70s)
Remnants (remains) of human sacrifice conducted by the Mexica (Aztecs) can be found in this modern day city
Mexico City
Led the Mexica before the invasion of the Spanish in 1521; the leader of the Spanish Conquistadors
Moctezuma; Hernan Cortes
"Nobody is more disturbed over the use of atomic bombs than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted [undeserved] attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war."
U.S. President, Harry Truman
During the Age of Imperialism, the idea that Europeans had a duty to bring civilization to others around the world through colonization comes from this 1898 poem from Ruyard Kipling
The White Man's Burden
The Reichstag Fire
Hitler being appointed chancellor of the Weimar Republic by President Von Hindenberg
The founding of the Weimar Republic
Hitler invades Poland
1. The founding of the Weimar Republic (1919)
2. The Reichstag Fire (1933)
3. Hitler being appointed chancellor of the Weimar Republic by President Von Hindenberg (1933)
4. Hitler invades Poland (1939)
The US conducted nuclear tests on this series of islands, which are linked to Spongebob, swimsuits, and widespread rates of cancer
Bikini Islands
The leader of the Communist Revolution in China in 1949; the leader of the Communists in Russia in 1949
Mao Zedong; Joseph Stalin
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
FDR
Widespread fear and panic about communism spreading through the U.S. government and internationally after WWII was known was the _____ scare.
Red Scare
Song Dynasty China
Industrial Revolution
Feudal Japan
Ancient Mesopotamia
1. Ancient Mesopotamia (8000BC-3000BC)
2. Song Dynasty China (900s-1200s)
3. Feudal Japan (1200s-1600s)
4. Industrial Revolution
In 1848, the US took over these three territories after defeating the Spanish, who were their previous colonizers
Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines