Dates 3

Question 1

11/11/1918, 11 am

Answer 1

armistice day

Question 2

1947-48

Answer 2

Marshall Plan
- rebuilt Western Europe
- stabilize economies
- prevent spread of communism after WWII

Question 3

1947

Answer 3

Truman Doctrine
- India gained independence from Britain
- decolonization starts

Question 4

1956

Answer 4

Khrushchev makes his six hour “secret speech” in front of communist international

Question 5

1935

Answer 5

Mussolini ordered the invasion of Ethiopia to “avenge adoula”

Question 6

1933

Answer 6

Hitler is appointed Chancellor by the aging Hindenburg in Germany

Question 7

1929-1930

Answer 7

Great Depression hits Europe

Question 8

November 1917

Answer 8

October Revolution
- provisional government under Kerensky toppled by Lenin + Trotsky and the Bolsheviks in the “10 days which shook the world”

Question 9

1815 - 1848

Answer 9

The Age of Metternich-Reactonary Repression

Question 10

1815

Answer 10

Congress of Vienna

Question 11

1846

Answer 11

Repel of the Corn laws in England

Question 12

1815 - 1914

Answer 12

The “long peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and outbreak of WWI

Question 13

1848 (philosophy)

Answer 13

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their communist manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”

Question 14

May 8th, 1945

Answer 14

V-E day
(formal surrender of Nazi Germany ending WWII)

Question 15

1776 - 1830

Answer 15

Era of Democratic Revolutions

Question 16

Mid 1945

Answer 16

Conservative Prime Minister Churchill is defeated by Labor party Clement Attlee who begins to make demands for a creation of welfare state

Question 17

1954

Answer 17

the Vietnamese rebels defeat the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu
- ends French colonism

Question 18

1950’s - 60’s

Answer 18

European Economic “miracle” in capitalist Western Europe

Question 19

1946

Answer 19

George Kennan writes a 10,000 word memo outlining containment policy and Churchill makes his “Iron Curtain” speech

Question 20

1948

Answer 20

The Berlin Airlift leads to the creation of NATO and demonstrates containment policy and the hatred of the appeasement policy of the 30’s

Question 21

1919

Answer 21

Versailles Peace Conference

Question 22

1898

Answer 22

Omdurman Britains “White Man’s Burden” of Frances, “Civilizing mission”
- example of how the developed European nations were able to conquer much of Africa + Asia during 2nd round of imperialism

Question 23

1904 - 05

Answer 23

Russo - Japanese War
-establishes Japan as a legitimate power

Question 24

1905

Answer 24

“Bloody Sunday” The first Russian Revolution in response to the Russo-Japanese defeat

Question 25

June 28th, 1914

Answer 25

member of serbian gang, the blackhands, kills franz ferdinand

Question 26

1924

Answer 26

Lenin dies - beings power struggle which Stalin eventually wins over Trotsky - leads to stalinism

Question 27

1922-28

Answer 27

The New Economic Policy was launched by Lenin to help bring back prosperity to a nation destroyed by WWI

Question 28

February 1917

Answer 28

Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government

Question 29

1928

Answer 29

First 5 year plan for heavy industry was launched by Stalin the USSR

Question 30

March 1938

Answer 30

Anschluss - German occupied Austria

Question 31

1917 - 1921

Answer 31

Civil war between the Reds and Whites in Russia

Question 32

1936 - 39

Answer 32

Spanish Civil War - Franco leads fascists to victory in Spain w/ the help of the Germans and Italians

Question 33

1956 Russia

Answer 33

Imre Nagy leads a movement in Hungary to become more independent from Moscow

Question 34

August 1939

Answer 34

Nazi/Soviet pact between Hitler + Stalin is negotiated to establish how the dictators will divide Poland

Question 35

September, 1939

Answer 35

WWII begins with the invasion of Poland using "blitzkrieg" or lighting war tactics

Question 36

August 1914

Answer 36

WWI beings - Guns of August

Question 37

1848

Answer 37

Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions - this shows evolutionary nature of English Society

Question 38

1798 - 1848 philosophy

Answer 38

Parson Maltthus's "Essay on Population" David Ricardo's "Iron Law of wages"

Question 39

1838 - 1848

Answer 39

Charists in Engalnd call for universal suffrage

Question 40

1832

Answer 40

Great Reform Bill in Britain

Question 41

1815 - 1846

Answer 41

Corn Laws in effect

Question 42

19th century

Answer 42

post Napoleonic Europe industrial revolution

Question 43

1819

Answer 43

peterloo massacre represents Repression even in England Carlsbad decrees in the German states

Question 44

November 9th, 1938

Answer 44

Kristallnacht

Question 45

June 6th 1944

Answer 45

D-day

Question 46

September 1938

Answer 46

Munich conference demonstrates British + French appeasement policy

Question 47

1848 revolutions

Answer 47

Revolutions sweep across Europe and failure of liberal nationalism

Question 48

1942 - 43

Answer 48

the tide of wars turns and the allies go on the offensive German + Japanese are both defeated in separate battles

Question 49

December 7th, 1941

Answer 49

Pearl Harbor brings America into the war although FDR has already been helping Britain + Russia through loans

Question 50

1957

Answer 50

Treaty of Rome establishes the European Union or European Economic community

Question 51

1942

Answer 51

"Final Solution" of the Jewish was reached by Nazi leaders a the Gross Wannsee conference. The elimination of all European jews

Question 51

1940

Answer 51

Battle between Britain + Germany - British people keep their pride and survive another day - britain stands alone against Germany

Question 52

June 22nd, 1941

Answer 52

"Operation Barbarossa" is launched the Nazis invade Russia and quickly penetrate deep into the Russian Heartland

Question 53

1890's

Answer 53

Fabian socialist and evolutionary socialists parties grow

Question 54

June 28th, 1914

Answer 54

Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzigovina, Austria - Hungarian Emprie

Question 55

1789 - 1848

Answer 55

Romantic Era