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100

This prime minister of the UK is often depicted in political cartoons smoking a cigar. 

Who is Winston Churchill?

100

This country was invaded by Germany in 1939 and later became communist.

What is Poland?

100

This terms of this treaty led to World War II

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

100
Severe food shortages, such as in Ireland under the British, China under Mao or Ukraine under Stalin.

What is famine?

100

A person emigrates from a country and immigrates to a place, and if they are fleeing persecution, they are known as

What is a refugee?

200

These people follow five "pillars" in their religion.

Who are Muslims?

200

A conference was held in this city to decide European control of colonized African countries.

What is Berlin?

200

Two Treatisies of Government was written by this English Enlightenment Philosopher.

Who was John Locke?

200

Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were ______ leaders.

What is fascist?

200

The complete control of a weaker nation’s social, economic, and political life by a stronger nation.

What is imperialism?

300

This person ordered the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Who is President Truman?

300

This communist nation, ruled by Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, created policies that led to massive amounts of children in orphanages. 

What is Romania?

300

Jonathan Swift wrote this creepy piece of _______ called "A Modest Proposal" about selling Irish babies as a food source.

What is satire?

300

This is a tax on imports

What is a tariff? 

300

A belief system (not created by Charles Darwin) that applied the principles of natural selection and “survival of the fittest” to people in society

What is social Darwinism? 

400

This Italian writer and philosopher wrote "The Prince" and he believed that "the ends justify the means."

Who is Machiavelli

400
A Soviet Republic other than Russia.

What is Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan (any one counts as correct).

400

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.

What is a colony?

400

An object made by humans

What is an artifact?

500

This nation's wealth allowed patrons of the arts, leading to the Renaissance.

What is Italy?

500

This is the policy that a country takes when they want to export more than they import. Hint: Great Britain caused the Great Hunger in Ireland with this policy. 

What is mercantilism?