Not History (yet)
History Skills
Starts with B
Important Dates
The Women's Suffrage Movement
100

The current leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

Who is Kim Jong Un?

100

The way of assessing an event from the point of view of an individual who may have been involved

What is historical perspective?

100

The 44th President of the United States

Who is Barack Obama?

100

New Zealand's founding document signed in 1840

What is the Treaty of Waitangi?

100

The famous female suffragette on the New Zealand $10 note

Who is Kate Sheppard

200

A viral disease that originated in a Chinese market, which has since spread rapidly across the globe

What is Covid-19?

200

A graphical (and linear) representation of a period of time, on which important events are marked.

What is a timeline?

200

A New Zealand born Aviator who was the first person to fly solo from England to NZ in 1936

Who is Jean Batten?

200

A weapon dropped on Japan to end WWII in 1945

What is the atomic bomb?

200

The year women in Aotearoa gained the right to vote

What happened in 1893

300

A period of unusually intense wildfires, directly linked to increased global temperatures, that occurred in Australia from 2019-2020

What is the Australian Bushfire Crisis?

300

The inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

What is bias?

300

The US president who led the 'War on Terror'

Who is Bush?

300

A period of rapid economic downturn that resulted from the Wall Street Crash in 1929

What is the Great Depression?

300

The organisation that campaigned for universal female suffrage in NZ

What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?

400

The secretive tech-intelligence company that is alleged to have influenced hundreds of elections across the globe through the use of Facebook

What is Cambridge Analytica?

400

The historical patterns of social factors, beliefs, people or events staying the same over time

What is continuity?

400

The first chancellor of Germany

Who is Bismarck?

400

The New Zealand political party first elected to power in a landslide election in 1938

What is the Labour Government?

400

A document delivered to parliament in order to convince the government of enacting a significant social change

What is a petition?

500

A terrorist organisation whose drone attack in 2019 against an oil facility in Saudi Arabia destabilised world oil prices and decreased the global oil production by 5%

Who are the Houthi?

500

A five point method of evaluating historical significance

What is Partington's Criteria?

500

A famous NZ Yachtsman who was shot and killed by pirates in the Amazon in 2001

Who is Sir Peter Blake?

500

A decade of changing social norms and the growth of a counterculture movement

What is the 1960s?

500

A movement that started in the 1970s, often called 'Second Wave Feminism"

What is the Women's Liberation Movement?