| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Last Name of the family who ruled the Austrian Empire | Hapsburg | 86%
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| a period in which economic activity slows | recession | 55%
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| Latin Americans of Native American and European heritage | Mestizo | 50%
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| seized power in France using a plebiscite to win public approval | Napoleon | 50%
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| legal separation of the races | segregation | 50%
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| self rule | autonomy | 45%
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| Nazi secret police | Gestapo | 41%
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| title of William I of Germany | Kaiser | 41%
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| the policy of taking neither side in a conflict | neutrality | 41%
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| people who favor extreme change | radical | 41%
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| payments for war damage | Reparation | 41%
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| a list of terms issued by President Wilson to end World War 1 and prevent future wars | 14 points | 36%
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| invented dynamite, a safer form of explosive than others at the time | Alfred Nobel | 36%
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| land acquisition that doubled the size of the united states | Louisiana purchase | 36%
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| movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine | Zionism | 36%
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| campaign against slavery and the slave trade | abolitionist movement | 32%
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| an alliance of different political parties | coalition | 32%
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| a strait connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean | Dardanelles | 32%
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| a system of brutal Russian labor camps | Gulag | 32%
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| a system of thought and belief | ideology | 32%
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| France's "citizens king" | king louis Phillipe | 32%
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| night of broken glass | Kristallnacht | 32%
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| idea that it was inevitable that the United States would expand across the continent | Manifest Destiny | 32%
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| Latin Americans of African and European heritage | Mulattos | 32%
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| allows people to cast votes without announcing them publicly | secret ballot | 32%
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| reform movement concerned with voting rights | women's suffrage | 32%
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| large gas filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs | Zeppelins | 32%
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| elected national legislature in Russia | Duma | 27%
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| the body of people allowed to vote | electorate | 27%
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| liberated young women of the Jazz Age | Flapper | 27%
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| invented the radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 27%
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| glorification of military | militarism | 27%
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| advocated limiting or banning the use of alcoholic beverages | prohibition | 27%
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| a person who wants to abolish all governments | Anarchists | 23%
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| local self government | home rule | 23%
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| established a link between microbes and diseases | Louis Pasteur | 23%
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| violent mob attacks against Jews | Pogroms | 23%
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| the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause | propaganda | 23%
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| shares of an ownership in a corporation | stocks | 23%
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| the channeling of all of a nations resource into the war effort | total war | 23%
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| romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra | Ludwig van Beethoven | 18%
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| a growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners | proletariat | 18%
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| militant supporters of Benito Mussolini | Black shirts | 14%
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| a crime punishable by death | capital offense | 14%
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| impressionist painter who relied on viewer's eye to blend brush strokes into patches of color | Claude Monet | 14%
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| a one party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens lives | Fascism | 14%
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| leader of the "red shirts" | Giuseppe Garibaldi | 14%
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| a class of wealthy farmers Stalin destroyed | kulaks | 14%
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| a British colony who helped Arab nationalists free their nations from the Ottoman Empire | Lawrence of Arabia | 14%
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| a measure of the quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society | standard of living | 14%
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| encouraged world wide communist revolution | communist manifesto | 9%
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| helped create the dual monarchy | Deak | 9%
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| an important safety valve that relieved social tensions in Italy | emigration | 9%
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| government programs to help certain groups of citizens | social welfare | 9%
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| an artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious | surrealism | 9%
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| local, elected assembly in Russia | zemstvos | 9%
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| inherited the Hapsburg throne at age 18 | Francis Joseph | 5%
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| renounced war as an instrument of policy | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 5%
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| Spanish born Latin Americans of the highest social class | penisulares | 5%
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| rebuilding poor areas of a city | urban renewal plan | 5%
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