Industrial Revolution and New Social Systems
Name a significant industrial city in the Merrimack Valley.
Style of warfare fought for the first time in large numbers on the western front of WWI; characterized by slow (or no) progress and high casualties
TRENCH WARFARE
Nazi violence specialists, who would accompany their politicians to rallies, and were known by the color of their clothing
BROWNSHIRTS
In pursuit of more of this substance, Japan invades China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and most of the Pacific region
OIL
This island is famous for its cigars, old cars, and missile crisis
CUBA
This overwhelmingly sad movie was set (and shot) in a Massachusetts town by the same name; Casey Affleck stars as a Quincy janitor
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Marx's term for people in history with capital who have suppressed the working class since the beginning of society.
BOURGEOIS
The assassination of this person sets off a chain reaction of alliances and declarations of war, starting WWI (hint: he also wrote the 2004 pop-punk hit "Take Me Out")
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND
HOLODOMOR
Hitler and the Nazis attempt to take power in Munich, and control all of Bavaria for an eventual pan-German rebellion, in this booze-soaked event
THE BEER HALL PUTSCH
This attempt to accelerate Chinese industrial production actually decreased it - along with millions of people in China
GREAT LEAP FORWARD
Godzilla's flying friend who helps him save the world often
MOTHRA
The series of wars that established Britain's exclusive right to sell addictive drugs to within China
OPIUM WARS
This "personal property state" of Leopold II covered thousands of square miles and was known for its cruelty towards rubber workers and their families
CONGO FREE STATE
A fire at this structure destroys it - and provides the Nazis with the excuse needed to ban opposition political parties
REICHSTAG
The process in which Hitler gets the Sudetenland, then Austria, and then begins demanding Danzig, and the western allies just sort of... let him do it, in hope that he won't do it again later
APPEASEMENT
According to this nuclear weapons theory, nuclear-armed states will not go to war because any war would risk total destruction
MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION
Macbeth sees this implement before him before heading off to (spoiler alert) kill his liege lord.
A DAGGER
The indigenous language of Ireland; suppressed during English occupation after the famine
GAELIC
This Siberian alleged mystic / wizard / womanizer was poisoned, then shot, then clubbed over the head, then disposed of in a river... but died of drowning
GRIGORY RASPUTIN
The organization that carried out The Great Purge - its name means "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs"
NKVD
City in Basque Country bombed during the Spanish Civil War; inspiration for Picasso's painting by the same name
GUERNICA
"Handed over" in the 1990s, this former British colony is now part of China under "one country, two systems"
HONG KONG
An important Russian ballet made famous by the similarly-named Natalie Portman / Mila Kunis film; features an evil wizard, a kind noble, and a whooooooole lot of birds
SWAN LAKE
According to Marx, if the proletariat rise up, they will have nothing to lose but this!
THEIR CHAINS!
This document was assembled by President Wilson after WWI, and laid out his multi-point vision of the postwar order, including supranational organization
14 POINTS
This government was set up by Germany after WWI - but was toppled by the Nazis just fifteen years later
WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Soviet (and now Russian) name for WWII, specifically WWII on the eastern front
GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
This international divorce over who would lead world Communism almost resulted in a nuclear war, and contributed to famine in one of the countries
SINO-SOVIET SPLIT
In The Lord of the Rings, this is the realm of Theoden King; warriors from this land charge the orcs in "Return of the King"
ROHAN