Big Brain Thinking
What Radicalized You?
What's Yours is Mine
Poetry and Protest
Guns and Roosevelts
100
The Cold War division of Europe into competing political and military blocs was often described using this metaphorical barrier.
What is the Iron Curtain?
100
Members of this Chinese anti-imperialist movement believed martial arts rituals made them invulnerable to foreign weapons.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
100
This was a 19th-century race among European nations to colonize a continent.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
100
This is an illustrated graphic intended for the public, meant to make some sort of political or social statement.
What is a political cartoon?
100
This section of the Treaty of Versailles put the blame of the Great War entirely on Germany.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
200
This jazz pianist grew famous for his groundbreaking compositions, even being called "America's most important composer."
Who is Duke Ellington?
200
The assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand belonged to this Serbian nationalist organization.
What is the Black Hand?
200
In 1853, this American commodore pressured Japan into opening trade relations with the United States.
Who is Matthew C. Perry?
200
This group of students in Arkansas insisted on their right to attend integrated schools following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
What is the "Little Rock Nine?"
200
This was the name of the military strategy at the start of the First World War, in which Germany hoped to seize France.
What is The Schlieffen Plan?
300
Supporters of this ideology sought to destroy factory machines in order to protest industrialization.
What is Luddism?
300
This 1917 rebellion led to the establishment of Bolshevism in Russia and the birth of the Soviet Union.
What is the October Revolution?
300
Rudyard Kipling wrote this poem about colonization which later became a popular phrase.
What is "the White Man's Burden?"
300
Martin Luther King composed this open letter from confinement, encouraging activists not to wait, but to take action.
What is "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?"
300
This was the pre-World War I alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia.
What is the Triple Entente?
400
This a statement of principles written by the US president for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
400
This married couple were tried and executed for spying and supplying key technological information to the Soviet Union.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
Rubber production was the primary focus in this African colony known for its cruel treatment of enslaved workers.
What is the Belgian Congo?
400
This artistic movement as exemplified by the piece below, associated with Weimar Germany, challenged traditional aesthetics and often criticized capitalism and war.
What is Dadaism?
400
This Second World War Soviet bomber regiment made up of women bore this nickname.
What are the Night Witches?
500
This American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman was one of the most important figures in the abolitionist movements.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
In 1949, this country witnessed the rise of a communist government which led to panic in the United States.
What is China?
500
Japan colonized this part of China in their expansionism which resulted in massacres.
What is Manchuria?
500
This club was the most prominent hub of the 170+ nightclubs in "Gay Berlin."
What is the Eldorado?
500
The Cuban Missile Crisis emerged due to the rivalry regarding Soviet missiles placed in Cuba, and American missile in this country.
What is Türkiye/Turkey?