History of Science
Sigmund Freud famously categorized the human psyche into the ego, superego, and this part which is responsible for irrational and unconscious behavior.
What is the id?
This person was the second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This president's administration created the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1984, nicknamed 'Star Wars', in an effort to use highly experimental technology to counter nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This massive kingdom is considered to be the legal predecessor of the German Reich in 1871 (and the present Federal Republic of Germany).
What is Prussia?
The original Amana colonists left Germany in the 1830s for this reason.
What is persecution from Lutheran Church?
(also correct: religious freedom)
In the late 1500s, Johannes Kepler discovered in his famous first law that the planets revolve around the sun in this kind of orbit.
What is elliptical orbit?
This American president was responsible for the infamous tragedy known as the 'Trail of Tears', causing the displacement and death of several Native American tribes.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
(also correct, Martin Van Buren)
This American President is credited with the creation of the League of Nations in 1920, a predecessor to the United Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was complete in 1991. The dissolution is credited to the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika introduced by this Soviet President.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This company became the Amana Colonies' most well known contribution to the world, created in 1934 by George Foerstner. It received the Army-Navy E award for filing military contracts during WWII.
What is Amana Refrigeration?
(also correct: Electric Equipment Company, Electrical Department of the Amana Society)The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Goodenough, Yoshino, and Whittingham for their work on this revolutionary invention in the 1970s.
What is the lithium ion battery?
The American Revolution's alliance with this powerful nation allowed a victory over Britain.
(Bonus 100 points: This officer is credited with this nation's entrance in the American Revolution)
What is France?
Bonus: Who is Marquis De Lafayette?
In the late 1960s, the Pentagon's computer science division developed a program known as 'Arpanet' which lead to this major entity we all use today.
What is the Internet?
The Chinese Communist Revolution began during the Chinese Civil War in 1945. Upon victory, Mao Zedong and the Communist Party drove the Nationalists lead by Chiang Kai-shek to this now highly disputed country.
What is Taiwan?
Each village in the Amana Colonies was lead by this democratically elected governing entity.
Bonus: This governing body oversees the affairs conducted by the Amana Society.
Who are the Elders? (aka, Bruderrath or Brother Council)
Bonus: Who are the Board of Trustees?
Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his discovery of this electromagnetic phenomenon.
What is the photoelectric effect?
Until 2021, the United States Capitol had only been breached once, and was burned to the ground during this war.
What is the war of 1812?
The Manhattan Project marked the first major development of nuclear weapons by the US. It was spearheaded by Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and this American physicist.
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
The Cuban Revolution in 1953 was lead by a lawyer, a high school dropout, and a communist visionary. Respectively, these men were Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and this man.
Who is Ernesto (Che) Guevara?
The Homestead Colony was not originally part of the Amana Colonies, but was purchased by the Amana Society because of its access to this important asset.
What is Railroad?
Joel D. Hildebrand made massive discoveries in the field of solution thermodynamics. The most important these was his pioneering of this solution concept in 1927.
What is a Regular Solution?
During the panic of 1907, this business tycoon known for his leadership of U.S. Steel and General Electric bailed out the US Government and helped create the Federal Reserve in 1913.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
(John Pierpont Morgan)In the 1944 Vice Presidential selection, regarded as one of the largest primary scandals in history, Harry S. Truman was selected despite having only 27% of the delegates over this populist candidate from Iowa.
Who is Henry A. Wallace?
This African nation is considered to be the only African nation which was never colonized, and was officially recognized as an independent state in 1896 after defeating the Italian invaders.
What is Ethiopia?
(Also correct: Liberia)
The Great Change in 1931 occurred in response to this worldwide event.
What is the Great Depression?