This inventor perfected the process for making high quality, low-cost steel.
Who was Henry Bessemer?
100
This country got blamed for starting this war, and punished severely (military limited, high reparations payments, etc.)
What is Germany?
100
This is a word for the anti-Jewish prejudice that led to what the Nazis called the "final solution."
What is Anti-Semitism?
100
This dictator of the USSR ended Lenin's New Economic Plan and went back to strict communism.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
100
This communist leader defeated Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalists in the Chinese civil war.
Who was Mao Zedong?
200
This is a phrase for what labor unions do -- they work together to get better wages, hours, and working conditions, or they do ______________.
What is collective bargaining?
200
This U. S. president ran for election on a platform of STAYING OUT of the war, but later led the country into the war.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
200
This term means "letting people get away with a little bit of bad conduct in hopes they won't do more" -- it's how the western democracies treated Hitler in 1937-8.
What is appeasement?
200
Winston Churchill called the Soviet control of eastern Europe by this ominous-sounding name.
What was the Iron Curtain?
200
This prime minister of India created a good relationship with the USSR and brought nuclear weapons to the country.
Who was Indira Gandhi?
300
This country dropped out of the war halfway through because of a revolution that got rid of its king.
What is Russia?
300
These were the two U. S. presidents during the war.
Who were Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry S Truman?
300
This was the location of a major 1962 crisis involving Soviet nuclear missiles within striking distance of the U. S.
What is Cuba?
300
This Egyptian leader modernized the country and presided over the building of the Aswan High Dam.
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
400
This was the geographic starting point of the industrial (factory) revolution because of its natural resources.
What is England (Britain)?
400
This organization, meant to keep the peace through negotiation, was founded after the war -- and it was very weak.
What was the League of Nations?
400
This Japanese general was behind the Japanese grand strategy to take over most of the Pacific.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
400
This war ended in a stalemate, with the country being divided into a communist north and a capitalist south.
What is the Korean War?
400
This communist revolutionary brought victory for his side to Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
500
This was the person who invented the smallpox vaccine.
Who was Edward Jenner?
500
Besides just Germany, what other two empires were broken apart when they lost this war?
What are the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary?
500
This country created a non-aggression pact with Germany, only to have Germany invade anyway.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
This was Truman's name for his policy for dealing with communism worldwide.
What is containment?
500
This leader was the last president of the Soviet Union?