Vocabulary
Influential People in History
More Influential People in History
War Times
Politics and Policies
100
The rights of workers to form unions and jointly negotiate with business owners over wages , hours, and working conditions is called...

Social Darwinism

Collectivization

Collective Bargaining

Nationalism
Collective Bargaining
100
In 1932 this man was elected to power in Germany. He soon after seized dictatorial powers and was given the title 'Der Fuhrer'.
Adolf Hitler
100
The British Philospher who first developed the idea that governments were formed by social contracts between members of a community, and that their sole purpose was to protect the rights citizens received at birth was...

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Jean Jaques Rousseau

Adam Smith
John Locke
100
Which of the following was NOT one of the new weapons technologies developed during World War I in an attempt to break the stalemate in the fighting?

Airplanes

Machineguns

Tanks

Chemical weapons/poison gas
Machineguns
100
Which three nations formed the triple entente during the 1800's?

France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary

Russia, France, and the United States

Germany, Russia, and Italy

France, Russia and Great Britian
France, Russia and Great Britian
200
The artistic and literary movement that rejects overly emotional images and writing, and instead seeks to portray the world, especially that of average, everyday people, as it is, is called...

Surrealism

Romanticism

Impressionism

Realism
Realism
200
This British naturalist and biologist was the first to develop and espouse the theory of evolution through means of natural selection.
Charles Darwin
200
The man who became dictator of the communist Soviet Union in 1924, and modernized his nation through brutal policies that killed between 20 and 30 million of his own people was...

Vlaimir Lenin

Joseph Stalin

Leon Trotsky

Alexander Kerensky
Joseph Stalin
200
The brutal and bloody fighting from lines of entrenched ditches which turned World War I into a horrible stalemate is called...

Trench Warfare

Total War

Blitzkrieg

Mobilization
Trench Warfare
200
The economic policies enacted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and intended to end the horrible unemployment and poverty in the United States during the 1930's are called the...

New Deal

Self-Strengthening Movement

Fair Deal

Great Society
New Deal
300
Patriotism based on a group's common language, religion, ethnicity, history, and symbology is called...

Social Darwinism

Nationalism

Militarism

Ethnocentrism
Nationalism
300
The assassination of this man on June 28, 1914 provided the spark that cause the outbreak of World War I.

Alexander II

Louis XVI

Franz Ferdinand

Gavrilo Princip
Franz Ferdinand
300
Which physicist developed the theory of relativity, which held that space and time do not have absolute values and measurements relative to the speed of the observer?
Albert Einstein
300
The final Defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte took place on June 18, 1815 at the village of _______ in Belgium at the hands of a combined British and Prussian army.

Leipzig

Waterloo

Austerlitz

Trafalgar
Waterloo
300
The legal restrictions and abuses forced on the Jews in Germany by the Nazis were called the...

Enabling Act

Nuremberg Laws

Magna Carta

Bill of Rights
Nuremberg Laws
400
War that involves the complete mobilization of a nation's population, industries, and resources in the pursuit of victory is known as...

Militarism

Conscription

Unlimited War

Total War
Total War
400
Who was the radicalized lawyer who headed the Committee of Public Safety and carried out the Reign of Terror in France from 1793-1794 before being condemned and executed himself?

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Louis Napoleon

Voltaire

Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
400
The theories and principles of Communism, calling for a worldwide, violent revolution by workers against the ruling business classes in order to create a more equitable and just society were developed by...

Karl Marx

Otto Von Bismarck

Jean Jacques Rousseau

John Locke
Karl Marx
400
The peace agreement that ended World War I, but also set the stage for World War II because of its many flaws, was the...

League of Nations

Versailles Treaty
Kellog-Braind Act

Concert of Europe
Versailles Treaty
400
The American position that all countries should be able to freely trade anywhere in China, and that no country should own its own spheres of influence in that nation is known as the...

Fourteen Points

Bill of Tights

Open Door Policy

Manifest Destiny
Open Door Policy
500
The political ideology that holds that political goals are all that matters and should be gained or met by any means available or necessary is called...

Magna Carta

Realpolitik

Social Darwinism

General Will
Realpolitik
500
Who was the exiled, militant revolutionary and mercenary who returned in 1860 leading 1000 volunteers, known as the red shirts, to free Sicily and southern Italy from foreign rule?

Maximilien Robespierre

Miguel Hildago

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Simon Bolivar
Giuseppe Garibaldi
500
This man, known as 'the Liberator', who led the revolution against Spain in South America during the early 1800's, eventually leading to independence for the region, was...
Napoleon Bonaparte

Miguel Hildago

Simon Bolivar

Giuseppe Garibaldi
Simon Bolivar
500
Which meeting, held in 1884-1885, had the purpose of setting guidelines for the division of Africa amongst European nations in order to prevent war from breaking out? No African leaders were invited.

Congress of Vienna

Geneva Convention

Berlin Conference

Munich Conference
Berlin Conference
500
The legal right, while living in a foreign nation, to be exempt from that nation's laws and only subject to the courts of your own country is called...

Magna Carta

Extraterritoriality

Nationalism

Social Darwinism
Extraterritoriality