Geography & Climate
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
World War II
Cold War & Pope John Paul II
100
This pink island nation shares some of the neighboring green island's territory.
What is the United Kingdom?
100
He painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He studied the human body and pioneered designs for the submarine and the helicopter.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
This was a life-changing period in the 1800s when products began to be made by machines in factories instead of by hand.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
100
He was a soldier in World War I, and then gave speeches about making Germany strong after the war was over. He became the leader of Germany in 1933.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This popular pope came from Poland and later traveled the world to teach about Jesus.
Who is Pope St. John Paul the Great?
200
This purple nation is in the south of Europe and part of Europe's peninsula bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Spain?
200
Johannes Gutenberg invented this, which allowed Renaissance ideas to spread across Europe.
What is the printing press?
200
These produced many goods in the Industrial Revolution, but conditions were dirty and unsafe.
What are factories?
200
This was fought from 1939-1945. Germany and Italy fought the United Kingdom, France and the United States (among others).
What is World War II?
200
This is the majority religion in Poland.
What is Catholicism?
300
This yellow nation was the main aggressor in World War II.
What is Germany?
300
This was a time of rebirth of interest in science, art and the humanities from the 1300s to the 1500s. It started in Italy.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This was a main product that changed to being made in factories.
What is clothing or textiles?
300
This was a horrible mass murder of six million Jews in Germany during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
300
This large yellow nation in the east of Europe was the other main super power in the Cold War.
What is Russia?
400
This climate region is in northern parts of Europe and Russia. It is a cold dry region covered with snow for more than half the year.
What is tundra?
400
He discovered how blood circulates in the body.
Who is William Harvey?
400
In the Industrial Revolution, many new tools made farming easier. Fewer people were needed to work on farms, so many people moved here.
What are cities?
400
This was time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union (mainly Russia) that lasted from 1945-1991.
What is the Cold War?
400
This mint green nation was the home of Pope St. John Paul II.
What is Poland?
500
This refers to a river wide and deep enough for ships to travel through. Such rivers helped Europe develop trade and share ideas.
What is navigable?
500
He discovered that the sun is at the center of our solar system. His discovery is called the Heliocentric theory.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
500
He invented the cotton gin which made it easier and faster to clean cotton for cloth-making.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
This divided the city of Berlin, Germany into East and West and represented the division all across Germany and Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
This was a labor union that protested unjust laws and rising food prices in Poland.
What is Solidarity?