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Where you could buy luxury items such as silk, porcelain and paper

Silk Road

100

richest man that ever lived, ruler of the Mali Empire

Mansa Musa

100

The invasion of ___________ started WWII.

Poland

100
This empire conquered the Byzantine Empire and renamed its capital

Ottoman Empire

100

Karl Marx called the working class this _______, saying they would some day rise up against the elite.

proletariat 

200

Where you could trade in salt.

Trans-Saharan Route

200

created a navigation school in Portugal to teach sailors how to use Arab tools and sails.

Prince Henry the Navigator

200

The atomic bombs were dropped on 

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

200

The Renaissance began here: 

Italy 

200

He was the leader of the Bolsheviks that overthrew the Romanov dynasty and turned Russia into the USSR. 

Vladimir Lenin

300

father of Capitalism

Adam Smith

300
The totalitarian dictator of the U.S.S.R. during WWII.

Joseph Stalin 

300
Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire that was located in modern day

Mexico (Central America)

300

Johannes Guttenberg invented the _______ greatly increasing the worlds literacy rate. 

The printing press 

300

Leader that turned China communist 

Mao Zedong

400

the empire that ran the Silk Road

The Mongol Empire

400

president that is said to have helped the US out of the Great Depression and the start of WWII. 

F.D.R

400

The United States secretly had missiles here pointing at the USSR, this led the USSR to put missiles in Cuba. 

Turkey

400
J. Robert Oppenheimer led this ______, where they made the atomic bomb.

The Manhattan Project

400

when people tried to escape from its eastern half, the Soviets created this _______ to keep its people from escaping. 

The Berlin Wall

500

The United States allowed allied countries to buy and transport goods during WWII

Cash and Carry Act 
500
This former general of WWII, went on to become president and created the highway system in America. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

500

At the end of imperialism, this empire had the most colonies. One on every continent.

The British Empire

500
Heavily used in WWII, this drug staved of infection and saved many a limb of man. 

penicillin 

500

known in China as the June Fourth Incident, held from 15 April to 4 June 1989. The Chinese government initiated martial law in late May and deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is _________ 

Tiananmen Square Massacre