Important Events/Things
Economic
Political
World Wars
Important People
100
An extremely destructive type of bomb
What is an atomic bomb
100
A period where the United States experienced a tremendous time of poverty and economic stagnation
What is the Great Depression
100
An idealistic economic system, where the government controls all the production, and redistributes all income evenly among its citizens
What is communism
100
Italy, Germany, Japan-World War II
Who are the axis powers
100
He was the man responsible for starting World War two, the Jewish holocaust, and the deaths of almost 27 million people in the duration of World War II
Who is Adolf Hitler
200
The 1955 treaty binding the Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe in an alliance against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is the Warsaw Pact
200
Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority
What is cultural imperialism
200
The form of government taken up by Germany from 1919 till its abolishment in 1949
What is Nazism
200
France, Great Britain, Soviet Union-World War I
Who are the allied powers
200
The dictator of Iraq from 1979 until 2003
Who is Saddam Hussein
300
This separated the Democratic East Germany, from the Soviet West Germany
What is the Berlin Wall
300
An air craft that revolutionized transportation and warfare
What is a jet
300
An organization formed in 1945, with the intent of maintaining world peace, the keeping of treaties among nations, and the observations of international law
What is the United Nations
300
The Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city
What is the Rape of Nanking
300
He was Prime Minister of Britain from 1940-1945
Who is Winston Churchill
400
An air craft that revolutionized transportation and w
What is a jet
400
Boycotts, embargoes, and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies
What are economic sanctions
400
International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join
What is the League of Nations
400
Imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
What is the Treaty of Versailles
400
He is most remembered for leading the United States during World War II
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
500
Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies
What is NATO
500
Alliances of corporations and banks that dominate the Japanese economy
What is keiretsu
500
Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903
What is Bolsheviks
500
A swift, sudden engagement of large scale warfare with the intention of winning a quick victory
What is Blitzkrieg
500
Helped spread the genocidal form of government
Who is Joseph Stalin