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100
The last large, populated continent to be taken by European imperialists.
What is Africa?
100
Only President to be elected in the US four times.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
100
Fought between the Allies and the Axis during the 1930s and 1940s.
What is World War II?
100
Was built in a German city to prevent people from leaving the poor economic conditions there under communism.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
A region where there is simmering conflict that could flare into a war at any time can be called this.
What is a powder keg?
200
The waterway built in Egypt connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
200
President who took over during WWII after FDR died.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
Fought between the Allies and the Central Powers during the Early 1900s, mostly in Europe, and ended with the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the Great War, the War to End All Wars, or World War I?
200
OPEC was angry with the US for supporting Israel and so put this into place against the US.
What is the oil embargo?
200
A belief that one's nation is the best, which often motivates people to engage in wars and to work hard for their country.
What is nationalism?
300
Place where England gained control and saw the Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion, and the Boxer Rebellion.
What is China?
300
Important political figure whose assassination was the spark for WWI.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand (of Austria)?
300
Adolph Hitler's idea of a forced union between Austria and Germany (forced because Austria didn't want it).
What is anschluss?
300
A belief that the Jewish people deserve a Jewish state in their historical homeland.
What is Zionism?
300
Three things promised by Vladimir Lenin to the Russian people following the Bolshevik Revolution.
What are peace, land, and bread?
400
Nation where Matthew Perry became an important figure.
What is Japan?
400
Philosopher during the Industrial Revolution who saw problems between workers and factory owners, leading him to develop the ideas of socialism.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This war was started on a holy day in 1973, and the war takes its name from that holy day.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
400
The policy of giving in to the demands of an aggressor to try to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
400
Two-day event where German Jews were harassed and their windows broken in the cities.
What is kristallnacht?
500
Nation to which the setting of Animal Farm can be compared.
What is Russia?
500
Russian/Soviet leader who can be compared to Snowball from Animal Farm and who advised Lenin about Communism.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
500
This crisis saw the USSR and the US 'eyeball to eyeball' over nuclear missiles in the 1960s.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
An organization of world countries formed after WWI to try to maintain world peace.
What is the League of Nations?
500
The German code name for the plan to invade the Soviet Union during WWII.
What is Operation Barbarossa?