Age of Exploration
____________ is an improved type of sailing ship.
What is a Caravel?
The name of the process of making large amounts of product quickly and easily.
What is mass production?
The ignition for the "powder keg" of Europe.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who are Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin?
The operation that flew in much needed supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
___________is used to determine latitude by measuring the distance between the position of the stars.
What is an Astrolabe?
Name one reason that factory owners hired children.
1.) Children were paid less then adults, 2.) Small children could easily move in between the machines, 3.) There were plenty of children that need to work to help their parents with earning money?
The United States finally declared war because of these two thing happening. Name them both.
1.) Sinking of the Lusitania, 2.) Zimmerman Telegram
The battle that sunk most of the Japanese shipping fleet in the pacific.
What was the Battle of Midway?
South Korea and North Korea were split where.
What is the 38th parallel?
Name the 5 super powers of the Age of Exploration.
Who are Spain, England, France, Portugal and Netherlands?
An Italian physicists, astronomer who improved the telescope for majority use for scientific knowledge.
Who is Galileo?
The area between Germany, France and Belgium where fighting took place.
What was the Western Front?
The main cause for the United States to officially declare war in World War II.
What was Pearl Harbor, on Dec 7, 1941?
North Vietnam and South Vietnam fell to what type of government control when the United States left the war.
What is communism?
What was the name of the time period that helped lead the Age of Exploration due to to technological innovations?
What was the Scientific Revolution?
Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer that believed in the geocentric idea of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
The final peace settlement of World War I or The Great War was called.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
Two cities to ever been attacked by nuclear weapons.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Time when Cuba and Soviet Union worked closely together against the US and US forced to quarantine Cuba.
What was the Cuba Missile Crisis?
What were the main causes that led people and nations to seek expansion and explore unknown lands?
God, Gold and Glory
What is Divine Right of Kings?
What is it called when an country expanse to create an empire by taking over new lands or a country.
What is Imperialism?
Name the program that the US President FDR designed to get the United States out of the depression of the 1930's.
What is the New Deal?
What does NATO stand for?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?