Post classical period in western history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
What is the Middle Ages?
100
The event where European powers met to divide up Africa.
What is Berlin Conference?
100
The man's assassination led to WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs?
Who is President Kennedy?
100
President who is credited for ending the Cold War, and was president when the Berlin Wall came down.
Who is President Reagan?
200
Birthplace of the Renaissance
What is Italy?
200
The White Man's Burden
What is to take care of the “inferior” races they had conquered and was often an excuse to legitimize European racism at the time?
200
The battle that was the turning point of WWII, Soviets vs. Germans
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
200
Father of the atomic bomb who later regretted his participation.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
200
Churchill's description for the division between the West and the East, especially in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Ottoman's took Constantinople that ended this empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
300
Sphere of influence in imperialism.
What is an area in which an outside power claims exclusive trading privileges?
300
The provision of the Treaty of Versailles was the first clause and caused the most anger among Germans who viewed it as an “unfair” treaty
What is the guilt clause?
300
The two cities were the atomic bomb was dropped on.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
The idea that America and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war-and both countries were ready and prepared for this.
What is brinkmanship?
400
Not one of the technologies that helped allow for increased European exploration.
What is the steam engine?
400
The event that sparked revolutions in South America.
What is Napoleon’s invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
400
Hitler's final solution.
What is To equip concentration camps with furnaces and gas chambers in order to hasten the extermination of the Jewish population at times killing up to 6,000 per day?
400
Reason for the Allied powers to land on the beaches of Normandy.
What is to gain a foothold on European soil in order to effectively take the fight to the Germans and push them back?
400
The policy that enabled President Truman to give economic support
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
He is responsible for development of heliocentrism-theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
500
The three estates in French society during the revolution.
What is 1st estate: Clergy, 2nd estate: Nobility, 3rd estate: Everybody else?
500
The end of WWI provided two options in signing a treaty with Germany to begin a time of piece in the following years.
14 Points/Treaty of Versailles
500
Once Germany was divided and the Allied powers each had their portion. Russia decided to blockade supplies from the US flowing into Berlin during the Cold War. The Americans and the British successfully broke the blockade became known as
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
The reason the Korean War is considered a "conflict" instead of a war.
What is Congress never approved a declaration of war in Korea?