Name the Year!
NATO formed, China turns to Communism, & the Soviets test their A-bomb successfully
1949
1618 Defenestration of _______
Prague
Every one understands how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live uprightly and not craftily. Nevertheless we see, from what has taken place in our own days, that princes who have set little store by their word, but have known how to overreach men by their cunning, have accomplished great things, and in the end got the better of those who trusted to honest dealing.
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire.
Otto von Bismarck
Year of Graduation from NBHS
2007
Communist Manifesto published
1848
1815 Congress of ______
Vienna
The Germans were able to make their invasion through these countries because, at the time, governments hostile to the Soviet Union existed in these countries. As a result of the German invasion the Soviet Union has lost irretrievably in the fighting against the Germans, and also through the German occupation and the deportation of Soviet citizens to German servitude, a total of about seven million people. In other words, the Soviet Union’s loss of life has been several times greater than that of Britain and the United States of America put together….
Joseph Stalin
Women’s rights activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused their attention on the right to vote. The “second-wave” feminists of the 1960s and 1970s pursued a much broader agenda. Rejecting biological determinism, second-wave feminists attacked both discrimination against women and the social structures and patterns that established and reinforced male dominance. A statement of purpose, written in 1966 for the National Organization for Women by _______ _________ , one of the organization’s founders, captures much of the outlook and objectives of this new generation of activists. As you read it, think about how it differs from earlier efforts to define and defend women’s rights.
Betty Friedan
College/University
Bridgewater State Bears
End of the Thirty Years War.... Peace of Westphalia anyone?
1648
1871 Unification of _________
Germany
The pretense that corporations are necessary for the better government of the trade is without any foundation. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. An exclusive corporation necessarily weakens the force of this discipline.
Adam Smith
In the early nineteenth century, the new mechanization of textile manufacturing endangered the livelihoods of the handworkers engaged in manual textile production.
During the years 1811–1816, many English hosiery weavers found themselves replaced by stocking frames, new machines that could knit stockings.
The workers retaliated by smashing the “detestable” machines that had claimed their jobs.
They adopted the name _________ after a likely apocryphal Edward “Ned” Ludd, lauded as the first to destroy a shearing frame.
Luddites
Name our three pets
Evie, Olive, & Ivan
Constantinople becomes Istanbul
1453
Which of the following Japanese cities was NOT bombed (conventional or atomic bombs) during World War II?
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Kyoto
Nagoya
Kyoto
Let no active worker take offense at these frank remarks, for as far as insufficient training is concerned, I apply them first and foremost to myself. I used to work in a circle that set itself great and all-embracing tasks; and every member of that circle suffered to the point of torture from the realization that we were proving ourselves to be amateurs at a moment in history when we might have been able to say, paraphrasing a well-known epigram: “Give us an organization of revolutionaries, and we shall overturn the whole of Russia!”
Vladimir Lenin
In twentieth-century Europe, women achieved many goals of the nineteenth century’s feminists, notably the rights to vote and to own property. ______ __ _________(1908–1986) — a French writer and companion of the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre — was part of the generation of women who wanted full inclusion in society but who realized that suffrage and property rights did not always translate to social equality. Her writing took up the complex issues of attitudes and values and was particularly concerned with the persistence of traditional attitudes long after the circumstances that had created them no longer existed.
Simone de Beauvoir
Which country did we NOT travel to?
Italy
Spain
Portugal
France
Japan
Vatican City
Canada
Portugal
Freedom’s Last Line of Defense WINSTON CHURCHILL, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, ____)
1940
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a natural or cultural place recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for its outstanding universal value.
Which of the following is NOT a UNESCO site;
France - Palace of Versailles
Greece - Acropolis
U.S.A. - Mount Rushmore
Italy - Historic centre of Florence
Japan - Hiroshima Peace Museum
Russia - Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg
Peru - Machu Picchu
Portugal - University of Coimbra
Cuba - Old Havana
Croatia - Dubronvik
China - The Great Wall
U.S.A. Mount Rushmore
Many Native Americans, particularly members of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes, view Mount Rushmore as a symbol of injustice and dispossession. The monument was built on land that was taken from them, and they consider the Black Hills to be sacred.
Thus, not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did. [My] father, who was a great scientist and philosopher, did not believe that women were worth less by knowing science; rather, as you know, he took great pleasure from seeing your inclination to learning.
Christine de Pizan
Poland was one of the eastern European countries that resisted Soviet influence in the 1980s, largely thanks to the tireless efforts of ______ __________.
He was a Polish electrician who founded Solidarity, the first independent trade union to be formed in the Soviet satellite states.
He was arrested in the 1970s for union activities, and again during the period of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for his actions, was elected president of Poland in the 1990s, and helped Poland develop a new government outside the Soviet sphere.
Lech Walesa
Which of the following was not earned by me as a senior at NBHS
Varsity Football Captain
Varsity Baseball Captain
2007 Male Athlete of the Year
Baseball Captain