The assassination of this heir to the throne was the DIRECT cause of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
BONUS (200): name and explain MANIA
100
This type of warfare (literally "lightening war") is an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
This WWII genocide was notable for its efficiency, essentially "industrializing" the slaughter of Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
BONUS (200): What term refers to support for a Jewish homeland?
100
This policy provided funds to rebuild Europe after WWII, and was meant to stop the spread of Communism in Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
BONUS (100): Name one OTHER SPECIFIC way the USA attempted to contain communism.
100
The opposite of religious.
What is secular?
200
The majority of fighting during WWI took place in these and resulted in a stalemate until the USA joined the war.
What are trenches?
200
This policy was meant to avoid war with Germany by giving them what they wanted.
What is appeasement?
200
This genocidal conflict was sparked by the "assassination" of the country's president by a minority group.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
BONUS (100): Name the 2 ethnic groups involved.
200
Winston Churchill used this metaphor to describe the control Communist countries exercised over their citizens.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
These South and Central American plantation farms led to a racially-based caste system that still affects people in the region to this day.
What are encomiendas?
300
This type of warfare affects civilians as well as soldiers; civilian involvement can range from planting victory gardens to becoming victims of a bombing.
What is total war?
300
This battle was the "day of days"; on June 6, 1944 Allied forces landed in Normandy, France to begin a massive offensive against the Germans in the occupied territory of Europe.
What is D-Day?
300
The famine in this country killed millions, and was Stalin's punishment for their attempt at independence.
What is Ukraine?
300
This policy of restricting the growth of Communism, was a key part of the Truman Doctrine.
What is containment?
300
This "Great Charter" is considered the first successful attempt to limit the power of a monarch.
What is the Magna Carta?
BONUS (100): What country is it from?
400
Before it was called Veteran's Day, this holiday celebrated the end of World War I across the world.
What is Armistice Day?
BONUS (200): Name the 2 reasons America entered the war.
400
This movement, ideology, or attitude that favors dictatorial government, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism
What is fascism?
BONUS (100): Name a fascist leader.
400
This genocide was caused by Pol Pot's attempt to nationalize and centralize the peasant farming society virtually overnight.
What is the Cambodian Genocide?
400
This military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall ), had cut off its supply routes.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
BONUS (100): How did they divide the city?
400
This right was included in Wilson's 14 points (but he thought not EVERYONE should get it...)
What is self-determination?
500
This was Woodrow Wilson's plan to prevent another world war; it included self-determination for SOME nations and emphasized free travel and trade.
What are the 14 points?
500
This policy was meant to support American allies without entering the war - Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.
What is cash and carry?
BONUS (100): what event causes America to enter WWII?
500
Considered by many to be the first modern genocide, the country of Turkey still denies that it happened during WWI.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
BONUS (100): Name an Armenian celebrity. :D
500
This organization was created in 1955 and was a military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
This revolt was caused by a rumor that the British were using animal fat to grease rifle cartridges.