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100
Along with her husband, this female French scientist discovered radiation.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
This art movement was a rebellion against Realism.
What is Modernism?
100

This concept, which comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem, illustrates many Europeans' belief that they had a moral responsibility to "civilize" non-Western nations in Africa and Asia.

What is "White Man's Burden"?

100

This German prime minister controlled both German and European politics from behind the scenes until he was cashiered in 1890.

Who is Otto von Bismarck?

100
This suffragette's tactics included smashing department store windows, pelting government officials with eggs, and going on hunger strikes.
Who is Emmeline Pankhurst?
200
This German scientist was the first to challenge Newton when he declared that space and time are not absolute but relative to the observer.
Who is Albert Eistein?
200
This Spanish painter helped develop a new style of painting, Cubism, which used geometric designs to re-create reality.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
200

This war was fought between the British and the Dutch over control of South Africa.

What is the Boer War?

200

In pursuing his aggressive foreign policy, this man declared, "We have fought for our place in the sun and won it."

Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?

200
This Jewish intellectual and politican believed that Jews needed their own state in Palestine.
Who is Theodor Herzl?
300
According to this German intellectual, only when people recognized that "God is dead" would they be liberated and it would be possible to create the Ubermensch.
Who is Nietzche?
300

This French writer was influenced by Darwin's theories about the environment and heredity, so his novels often focused on the "natural and social history of a family."

Who is Emile Zola?

300

This uprising, led by Hong Xiuquan who claimed to be the brother of Jesus, aimed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

What is the Taiping Rebellion?

300

The Three Emperors League ended when Russia withdrew, and then when Italy joined Germany and Austria, it was called this.

What is the Triple Alliance?

300
This British member of Parliament's liberal party helped to pass the Natonal Insurance Act of 1911 which gave benefits to workers and was paid, in part, by increased taxes on the wealthy.
Who is David Lloyd George?
400
This Austrian doctor argued in his book Interpretation of Dreams that only by uncovering a person's repressed memories could one discover influences controlling one's life.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
This Scandinavian composer's music emphasized Norwegian nationalism in his lyric melodies based in folk legends.
Who is Edvard Grieg?
400

The spread of Western imperialism remarkably transformed this nation when it adopted Western military and industrial techniques and technologies which enabled it to become an imperial power itself.

What is Japan?

400

Due to all of the political crises that developed in this region it became known as the powder keg of Europe.

What is the Balkans?

400
This event, which lasted about seven months, was started when the tsar's troops fired on a massive group of angry workers who had come to present their grievances to the tsar at his Winter Palace.
What is the Revolution of 1905?
500
Houston Stewart Chamberlain argued this concept, that is, that German culture is superior and that German people have a universal mission to save Western civilization from "inferior" races.
What is volkish thought?
500

This impressionist painter sought to express the underlying geometric form of everything he painted.

Who is Paul Cezanne?

500

This Belgian king's treatment of the Congolese was so brutal that even other Europeans condemned his actions.

Who is King Leopold II?

500

This Balkan nation was at odds with Austria over its growing power (and size), but fortunately for this country, Russia had its back.

What is Serbia?

500
This Jewish man was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit in France and whose story an example of renewed anti-Semitism in Europe.
Who is Alfred Dreyfus?