He was the first to isolate the bacilli that cause tuberculosis and cholera.
Who was Robert Koch?
100
the belief that community ownership of the means of production will create social stability and reduce inequalities of wealth and opportunity
What is socialism?
100
James Hargreaves
Who invented the spinning Jenny?
100
The inability to enforce its decisions and the failure of the U.s. to participate.
What were a key reasons for the League of Nations lack of success?
100
He was the leader of the Soviets during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
200
He was the first to use the term "survival of the fittest."
Who was Herbert Spencer?
200
the belief that political, social, and economic freedoms are paramount, and the main function of government is to protect these freedoms.
What is Liberalism?
200
Thomas Newcomen and James Watt
Who were the inventors of the steam engine?
200
He emerged as the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
200
the ideology that seek to restore a nation to its former greatness and purge undesirable or lesser members from the nation's midst. it endorses significant government control of the economy and violence as a means to its ends
What is fascism?
300
He argued that the population grows faster than the food supply
who was Thomas Malthus the author of An Essay on the Principle of Population?
300
the belief that nations have a right to their own political institutions and that the interests of the nation are supreme
What is nationalism?
300
it annexed Arab lands without regard for the Arabs living within them
What is a chief failing of the Balfour Declaration?
300
the idea promoted by positivists
What is the idea that science represents the highest level of human knowledge?
400
He was the most prominent leader of the Reign of Terror
Who was Maximilien Robespierre?
400
the belief that the preservation of the established order, in particular monarchy and aristocracy, and the prevention of the spread of ideas born of the French Revolution are paramount
What is Conservatism?
400
the idea that Europeans or Westerners were "burdened with the duty to civilize or bring civilization to the non-European or Western peoples of the world
What is the idea of "the white man's burden" popularized by the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name?
400
it was the name of Egypt’s Liberalist Nationalist party from the end of World War I and through the 1930s
What is the Wafd?
400
The Domino theory
What is the theory justifying U.s. involvement in south East Asia and first elucidated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
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You may bet either 500 or 1000
She was the women who said, “woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum,”
Who was Olympe de Gouge author of Declaration of the rights of Women?
500
the belief that historical shifts in the means of production condition the social structure and government of a given era and that the development of world-wide industrial capitalism represents the second to last phase of historical shifts, the final phase of which will involve the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie and a dictatorship of the proletariat
What is communism?
500
it was a policy implemented by the ottomans during World War I
What was the extermination (genocide) of Armenians?
500
Control of the former Ottoman Empire was established by them
What are Great Britain and France
500
It was the place in which the plans were developed for the holocaust and he was the architect of the plan
what was the Wannsee Conference and who was Heinrich Himmler?