Science & Technology
Geography
Historical Figures
Turning Points
Economics
100
This Industrial Age advancement in transportation technology made it much easier to transport natural resources from the interior of continents to the coast, for faster and cheaper shipping.
What are railroads?
100
The drive for natural resources around the 19th century ushered in this "Age" of world history, during which at least 25% of the world's people and land came under the control of European countries.
What is the Age of New Imperialism?
100
English philosopher John Locke, along with these three philosophes of France, were the most significant thinkers of the "Age of Reason"... also known as the Enlightenment.
Who were Montesquie, Voltaire, and Rousseau?
100
This new type of weapon - used by the United States to end WWII in the Pacific - ushered in the Cold War... a period of prolonged tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the atomic bomb? or What is nuclear weapons?
100
Without these three "factors of production," it would be impossible to produce goods and services.
What are land, labor, and capital?
200
This rebellion in imperial India broke out because of the new "Enfield Rifle"... Rumor had spread among the Indian soldiers (employed by the British East India Company) that the lubrication cartridges, which they had to bite open, contained pig and cow lard, which was prohibited by both the Muslim and Hindu religions.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
200
This period in Japanese history marked the end of feudalism (under the Tokugawa Shogunate) and the beginning of a new age of industrialization and modernization in Japan.
What is the Meiji Era or the Meiji Restoration?
300
The mechanization of production in the Industrial Age led to the creation of these types of buildings.
What are factories?
300
This region, known as the "powder keg of Europe" in the years preceding WWI, was temporarily unified into the country of Yugoslavia. Decades later, Slobodan Milosevic perpetrated human rights violations in this region as Yugoslavia was breaking apart.
What is the Balkan Region?
300
Proponent of "realpolitik" and the use of "blood and iron" to achieve his goals, this historical figure played a crucial role in the unification of Germany.
Who was Otto von Bismarck? (OVB!!)
300
This successful political revolution of 1917 led to the creation of the world's FIRST ever Communist nation.
What was the Russian Revolution?
300
According to Adam Smith's writings in The Wealth of Nations, governments should follow this type of policy to encourage economic growth and prosperity.
What is laissez faire capitalism?
400
This advancement drastically changed the course of warfare in WWI. Although masks soon rendered it less effective as a weapon of war, that didn't stop Hitler from applying it to help carry out his "Final Solution" to "the Jewish question".
What is poison gas?
400
These domestic policies were implemented to increase industrial and agricultural output in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in Communist China under Mao Zedong, respectively.
What are the Five Year Plans and the Great Leap Forward?
500
This device, created by a French doctor in the late 1700s, was used by Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety" to swiftly execute all those deemed "enemies of the Revolution" (and soon enough, Robespierre himself was executed for his "Reign of Terror").
What is the guillotine?
500
This ruler of Communist China made the decision to suppress the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square with military force.
Who was Deng Xiaoping?
500
This 1939 event led to the outbreak of WWII in Europe, whereas this 1941 event led to the outbreak of WWII in the Pacific (and US entry into the war)...
What are Hitler's invasion of Poland and Japan's attack of Pearl Harbor?
