25-26 World Final Round 1

Europe

100

Europe marked the creation of its government with the adoption of this official currency.

What is the Euro?

200

After 1989, this country reunited its two halves and became one of the most powerful economies in Europe

What is Germany?

300

According to a famous Winston Churchill speech, Europe after World War II was increasingly divided by this.

What is the Iron Curtain?

400

This treaty officially established the European Union's government and central bank, making it one of the most powerful economies in the world.

What is the Maastricht Treaty?

500

This treaty allowed for free movement for both citizens and non-citizens across all European members

What is the Schengen Agreement/Treaty?

The Cold War

100

This marks the closest the Cold War came to becoming World War III.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

200

The United States created this organization, which included Turkey and Western Europe to contain the threat of Russian communism and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

What is NATO / North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

300

After 1962 the United States and USSR began a series of negotiations to limit nuclear arms and ensure peaceful balance of power, a process known as this.

What is Detente?

400

This treaty alliance was created by the Soviet Union in response to what it saw as Western aggression.  It included all communist aligned countries in Europe.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

500

Despite remaining anti-communist, from 1972-1991 the United States avoided any effort to invade another country or intervene with its military, a situation known as this.

What is "Vietnam Syndrome?"

Ideas

100

This idea from Karl Marx argues that the workers will rise up, overthrow the capitalists and create a classless, moneyless society.

What is communism?

200

An idea that says wars and violence should never be used as tools of state.

What is pacifism.

300

An idea that argues that governments should be run like corporations, with a totalitarian dictator in charge and everyone living their lives in service to the state.

What is Fascism?

400

A major contributor to World War I, this is the belief that your ethnic or state identity is the most important aspect of your person, and that your people are entitled to rule

What is Nationalism?

500

This idea from the first Soviet leader, claims that it is the job of communists to force the rest of the population to modernize and become proper socialists.

What is Marxist-Leninism?

Soviet Union

100

The Great Purges and the 5-Year Plan were both promoted by this Soviet leader, making him one of the greatest mass murderers of all time.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

200

This war started when communist leader Kim Il-Sung got support from the Soviet Union to invade his Southern neighbor in 1950

What is the Korean War?

300

Before its collapse, the Soviet Union attempted to reform itself with this program, which promoted transparency, more free speech and freedom of movement.

What is Glasnost?

400

This treaty officially dissolved the Soviet Union, freeing SSRs like Ukraine and renaming Russia to the Russian Federation.

What is the Belovsha Accords?

500

This was a series of economic reforms the Soviet Union made before its collapse.  It involved creating free trade zones and allowing limited capitalism

What is Perestroika

World War I

100

This treaty ended World War I, and by severely punishing Germany, ensured there would be a World War II.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

200

The discovery of this led the United States to enter World War I.

What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

300

World War I marked this brutal new style of warfare, which makes no distinction between civilian and military targets

What is total war?

400

Late in the war, this allied country withdrew, after its leader was overthrown in a revolution.

What is Russia?

500

As a result of World War I, Germany would develop tactics involving rapid deployment of tanks and armor supported by aircraft, known as this.

What is Blitzkrieg?