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The assassination of the heir from this empire was the "spark that lit the fuse" that led to the outbreak of World War I.
What is Austria-Hungary?
100
Freud said that this internal force powers our unconscious drives and is kept in check by the "ego."
What is the "id"?
100
This Russian parliament was created in 1905 and eventually morphed into Russia's Provisional Government.
What is the Duma?
100
This style of painting was heavily influenced by Freudian psychology.
What is Surrealism?
100
Germany's sinking of this passenger liner in 1915 strained its relations with the United States as 128 Americans perished in the tragedy.
What is the Lusitania?
200
These were the two alliances that fought each other during World War I.
What are The Central Powers and the Allies?
200
His theory of relativity of time and space challenged traditional ideas of Newtonian physics.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
Russia's poor showing in this 1904-05 conflict led, in part, to the Revolution of 1905 and Russia's renewed focus on the Balkans.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
200
This became the most popular form of mass entertainment after World War I.
What are movies?
200
This French "tiger" was determined to protect French security and eager to punish Germany after WWI.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
300
This treaty got Russia out of the war in 1917, but at the cost of 1/4 of its population.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
300
Daily Double!!!!
This philosophy says that there is no God and no inherent meaning to life. Therefore, each person has to find their own meaning through experiences.
300
Tsar Nicholas III ordered many of these, murderous raids on Jewish villages.
What are pogroms?
300
This was Picasso's masterpiece, a heart-wrenching cubist mural depicting the bombing of a Spanish city in 1937.
What is "Guernica"?
300
Among the outcomes of this major 1878 meeting were Serbia and Romania's independence and Austria-Hungary's acquisition of Bosnia.
What is the Congress of Berlin?
400
This British economist believed that the Versailles Treaty's harsh provisions against Germany were a huge mistake.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
400
This scientist was among the first to theorize that "quanta," or subatomic particles, existed in atoms.
Who is Max Planck?
400
These highly-regulated communes consisted of the former serfs who paid the state for land taken from nobles.
What are mirs?
400
This post-WWI art style made no sense- just like society no longer seemed to make sense.
What is Dadaism?
400
This 1926 international agreement seemed to guarantee peace in the foreseeable future as Germany agreed to accept its existing borders.
What is the Locarno Pact?
500
The monarchs of these three WWI belligerents were related- they were cousins.
What are Germany, Great Britain, and Russia?
500
This Viennese composer abandoned tonality with his twelve-tone technique.
Who is Arnold Schonberg?
500
These village assemblies were created by Alexander II's decree and saw significant popular participation by peasants, who elected representatives.
What are zemstvos?
500
Daily Double!!!!
Guglielmo Marconi invented this, a new form of mass media that came of age in the 1920s.
500
This 1906 conference settled the thorny issue of French control of Morocco while isolating Germany from Britain and France.
What is the Algeciras Conference?