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The symbol for the Reign of Terror!
The Guillotine
The first country in history to develop a nuclear weapon.
The United States
What period of great thinking inspired the founding fathers of the United States?
The Enlightenment
Built the Palace of Versailles.
King Louis XIV
Portion of Eastern Europe that Russia always longed for because of its warm water ports.
Crimea
Home of the Industrial Revolution
Great Britain
Developed the steam engine.
A political movement that emerged in mid to late 19th-century, later giving way to Communism, as Russian workers grew increasingly dissatisfied with long hours, low pay, and hazardous working conditions.
Socialism
DOUBLE: A meeting that agreed after Napoleon III to work together as allies, to continue European absolutism, and shun ideas like socialism. Led to the Concert of Europe.
The Congress of Vienna
The genocide of the Armenians in the 1890s took place during the rule of the ____ empire.
Ottoman
A group of rebels against the traditional sultans of the Ottoman Empire, they worked to overthrow the sultans and institute a new form of government.
The Young Turks
What was the direct consequence of Germany's invasion of Belgium in August 1914?
Britain was brought into WWI.
What is the chief goal of the league of nations?
prevent future wars through diplomacy
The coming-of-age and cultural flourishing for African Americans in the US.
The Harlem Renaissance
The Nuremberg's hurt which group of people?
The German Jewish people
What did the Germans use to fight merchant ships in WWI?
German U-Boats
What party did Mussolini create?
The Fascist Party
DOUBLE: The belief that Jewish people deserve their own nation in Palestine.
Zionism
South African segregation.
Apartheid
The British miraculous escape, where the fled on merchant ships.
Conference that determined the plans for rebuilding Europe post WWII
Yalta Conference
What is the official event that led to the beginning of WWII?
German invasion of Poland
Who were the big three?
Great Britain, US, Soviet Union (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin)
President responsible for the use of the atomic bombs
Truman
DOUBLE! Battle in which the French were defeated and soon left Vietnam.
Dien Bien Phu