1st Semester
If you were living in medieval Europe and suddenly developed painful sores, swelling in your armpits, a high fever, and began vomiting—what terrifying illness might you have caught?
Bubonic Plague - Black Death - The Plague
What was the reign of terror?
Killing of the suspected Anti-Revolutionist, beginning with the king.
What did the English King, Russian Tsar, and German Kaiser all have in common?
Cousins
What was the final solution?
Mass extermination of Jews
What year did the Cold War begin?
Who were the two world powers that became enemies during the cold war?
1945
U.S.A. and Russia
During the Renaissance, artists began creating paintings where buildings and roads seemed to stretch into the distance realistically. How do you think they were able to make flat paintings look three-dimensional?
Linear Perspective
Name atleast 2 inventions from the industrial revolution.
Correct.
How did WWI begin?
Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand
What is the name of Hitlers book that spread Anti-jewish thought
Mein Kampf
Name atleast one terror attack besides 9/11
London, Paris, Brussels
Daily Double
What is the family name of Samurai ruler of Japan?
What Villian in modern movies was influenced by the Samurai
Tokugawa Shogunate
Darth Vader
Social inequality - No it was not
Why was WWI so destructive compared to any war before it?
Trench warfare, Charging enemies, Machine Guns, Tanks, Airplanes, Gas, Modern Weapons in general.
What event started WW2?
German invasion of Poland
What is an Arms Race?
Race to accumulate the most and best weapons.
What was the Defenestration of Prague?
Throwing catholics out the window
What was the Berlin Conference?
Dividing up of Africa by European Powers.
What is a U-boat?
Submarine
What ended the War in the pacific against the Japanese?
Two Atomic Bombs that caused over 220,000 civilians deaths
what was a commune, and what was life like on a commune in Communist China
Collective farming and production, basically slaves, unable to leave without permission, self sufficient town that caused mass famine and death in China
Who was the Sun God
What type of King was he?
Louis XIV
Absolute
The french were divided into 3 estates, correctly identify all three.
1st estate
2nd estate
3rd estate
1st - Clergy
2nd - Nobility
3rd - Middle class/Peasants
What event led to Russia leaving WWI
The Communist Revolution
What was the biggest mistake that Hitler made during WW2?
Invaded Russia
What is Propaganda?
Media to sway public opinion