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*Daily Double*
Who is Sun Yat-sen?
100
The Industrial Revolution began in this area.
What is Britain?
100
This was the name of the organized labor movement in Poland during the 1980s.
What is Solidarity?
100
This was the name of the racial segregation policy in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
100
Trench warfare is most associated with this war.
What is World War One?
200
These textile workers who were opposed to mechanized factories were known as ...
What is Luddites?
200
The "one child policy" was implemented here.
What is China?
200
This event, beginning in 1868, led to rapid industrialization in Japan.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
200
The application of evolutionary theories to society, developed by Herbert Spencer, is known as this.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This first war between the Chinese and the British, from 1839-1842, is known as this.
What is the First Opium War?
300
He was the leader of the Bolsheviks.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
The "greased cartridge controversy," also known as the Sepoy Mutiny, happened in this area.
What is India?
300
The replacement of a Westernized shah with an orthodox religious cleric caused a major political transition in the 1970s.
What is the Iranian revolution?
300
This was the name of the peace treaty that concluded World War One.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
This German term means "lightning war."
What is Blitzkrieg?
400
He was a powerful Zulu leader who was renowned for his military techniques and reshaped Zulu social relations.
Who is Shaka?
400
King Leopold II of Belgium had a harsh regime in his personal colony, located in this area.
What is Congo?
400
The division of India and Pakistan in 1947 is known more familiarly as this.
What is Partition?
400
This was a British chartered company started in 1600 that controlled large parts of the South Asian subcontinent.
What is the East India Company?
400
This war eventually led to the creation of a family reunification television show in the 1980s that was recognized by UNESCO.
What is the Korean War?
500
This is the name given to journalists interested in exposing social ills and political problems in the early-20th century.
What is muckrakers?
500
"Manifest Destiny" was a term coined in 1845 as part of a call to annex this territory.
What is Texas?
500
This was a large-scale peasant rebellion that occurred from 1850-1864 whose name means "Heavenly Peace."
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
500
This term refers to widow immolation.
What is sati?
500
This was an elite corps of African American bomber pilots.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?