the name of a poem written in response to the czar’s manifesto requesting the British fleet to withdraw from Port Arthur; written by Caroline Kipling.
The Bear that Walks like a Man
100
The country in favor of disposing naval limitation as it would curb the German naval program, and preserving the status quo.
Great Britain
100
a series of international treaties and declarations negotiated at two international peace conferences
Hague Conventions
100
the man to discover dynamite; Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Medicine, and Literature are named after him.
Alfred Nobel
100
Supplied the philosophical basis for the theory that war was both inherent in nature.
On the Origin of Species
200
Which violation of the Hague conventions by Germany is famous for being one of the most brutal ways of warfare?
Use of poison gas and chemical weapons
200
The summer palace of the House of Orange where the conference met.
House in the Woods
200
A march against unemployment in Ireland, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien. Rebels were attacked by the Metropolitan Police and the British Army.
Bloody Sunday
200
Colonel who committed suicide in his prison cell at the military prison at Fort Mont-Valérien after being caught forging evidence against Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus Affair.
Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry
200
The trials of major German War criminals which cited the second Hague conference as grounds to prosecute
The Nuremberg Trials
300
Circulated in April 1906, proposed arbitration and laws of war as subjects for discussion while continuing to ignore disarmament.
The Russian Program
300
the nation that all of Europe believed needed to be conquered in order to curb American expansion.
the Philippines
300
Covered 277 acres of Paris, displaying the new century’s engines to fifty million spectators from April to November.
The International Exposition of 1900
300
the Russian Czar that issued the call to the nations of Europe to enter a peace conference to limit military force.
Nicholas II
300
Mystery Points
Granted the right to deduct 300 points from any team of your choosing
400
On Arbitration, Laws and Customs of War on Land, and Extension of the Geneva Rules to Maritime Warfare
The Three Commissions of the Conference
400
One reason why the Hague was selected as the host city of the two conferences
it was a large city in a neutral country.
400
What conference were the ideas that were discussed revisited
The Geneva Conference
400
Who was the person who called the second conference?
Theodore Roosevelt
400
The Hague Conferences set out the laws of war what other code was it largely based on?
The Lieber Code
500
Founded in 1891, the Pan-German League was composed of all members of the German race. Their goal was to be a Greater Germany incorporating different nations in Central and Eastern Europe. They spread propaganda titled “The world belongs to Germans” in shop windows
Alldeutsche Verband
500
What postponed the calling of the Second conference
The Russo-Japanese War
500
During the first world war, the first major event that broke the international code for warfare established at the Hague
The invasion of Belgium by the German Army.
500
Mystery Points
500 free points awarded to the team who chose this box.
500
Marked the moment that the Nineteenth Century ended and the Twentieth Century began.