Industrial Revolution & Nationalism
Imperialism
World War I
World War II
Cold War Era
100

This country is where the Industrial Revolution began.

Where is Great Britain?
100

The Industrial Revolution created the need for this, thus inspiring the desire for colonization in Africa and Asia.

What are new markets?

What are natural resources?

100

The dug-out structure use on the Western Front to fight most of World War I.

What are trenches?

100

Adolph Hitler, Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin are all examples of this type of leadership.

What is an Authoritarian/Totalitarian dictator?

100

Winston Churchill first coined this phrase in 1946, describing the border between the democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.

What is "Iron Curtain"?

200

Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, and Dom Pedro led revolutionary movements on this continent. 

What is South America?

200

This philosophy uses the scientific theory of evolution to justify racist ideology.

What is Social Darwinism?

200

This 1914 event was the "Spark" that started World War I.

What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? 

200

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were the sites of the first and only usage of this weapon on another nation.

What is the atomic bomb?

200

The Eastern bloc's alliance, which was a direct response to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

What is the Warsaw Pact?

300

The Unification of this country began with the Revolutions of 1848 and included important leaders like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Count Camillo di Cavour, and King Victor Emmanuel II.

What is Italy?

300

Guang Xu attempted to modernize this country with the One Hundred Days of Reform. Unfortunately, his efforts ultimately failed.

What is China?

300

This document, signed at the Paris Peace Conference, blamed Germany for the war, forced Germany to pay reparations, and limited Germany's military to 100,000 soldiers.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

300

This important invasion of Normandy beach marked a major turning point of the war in Europe; it is considered one of the largest invasions in history.

What is D-Day?

300

This plan provided $13 billion for the rebuilding of Europe after World War II. Soviet-aligned countries were allowed to participate but did not.

What is the Marshall Plan?

400

These laws sold off and consolidated public pastures by fencing them in, kicking off the Agricultural Revolution and changing farming practices.

What are Enclosure laws?

400

This meeting, hosted by Otto von Bismarck, established the rules and drew the boundaries for European Colonies in Africa. 

What is the Berlin Conference?

400

Great Britain, France, and Russia formed this alliance at the start of the war.

What is the Triple Entente?

400

Germany invaded this country, ending appeasement and beginning World War II.

What is Poland?

400

Despite starting in 1950, this proxy war has never been officially ended with a peace agreement.

What is the Korean War?

500

This philosopher predicted a violent class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, leading to workers gaining control and eventually eliminating social classes and the state itself.

Who is Karl Marx?

500

These Indian soldiers rebelled against the British when rumors spread that their rifle cartridges used cow and pig fat.

Who are the Sepoys?

500

This is one of the events that drew the United States into World War I.

What is the sinking of the Lusitania?

What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

500

In this event, over 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war were marched by the Japanese Army over 65 miles in April 1942, resulting in thousands of deaths from starvation, disease, and execution.

What is the Bataan Death March?

500

The Western response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin. Allies flew supplies over Soviet territory and delivered them to the city.

What is the Berlin Airlift?