Historical Terms

Question 1

Balfour Declaration

Answer 1

Great Britain’s 1917 proclamation supporting the establishment of a separate homeland for Jews in Palestine

Question 2

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 2

Babylonian legal code that established government responsibility for criminal justice

Question 3

Communist Manifesto

Answer 3

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel

Question 4

Constitution

Answer 4

ratified in 1789

Question 5

Cultural Revolution

Answer 5

Campaign carried out by Chinese Red Guards to revitalize the Communist Party and consolidate Mao Zedong’s leadership. (1966-1976)

Question 6

cuneiform

Answer 6

Sumerian system of writing

Question 7

Cyrillic alphabet

Answer 7

Russian alphabet (and other Slavic languages)

Question 8

détente

Answer 8

A cooling of Cold War tensions initiated during Nixon and Brezhnev

Question 9

domino theory

Answer 9

the idea that if one nation fell to Communism, neighboring nations would likewise fall

Question 10

Five-Year-Plans

Answer 10

Economic plans to increase industrial and agricultural productivity in the Soviet Union, China, and India.

Question 11

Fourteen Points

Answer 11

Post WWI peace plan proposed by Woodrow Wilson.

Question 12

Geneva Convention

Answer 12

Conference held in 1954 that divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel.

Question 13

glasnost

Answer 13

A Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Gorbachev emphasizing “openness” in the sharing of info and ideas.

Question 14

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 14

Congress’ resolution authorizing President Johnson to send troops to Vietnam

Question 15

Huns

Answer 15

A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration to the Roman Empire in the 400s

Question 16

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 16

Congress passed in 1941 allowing Roosevelt to give arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the US

Question 17

Magna Carta

Answer 17

1215- basis of English common law

Question 18

Marshall Plan

Answer 18

Put forth by US Secretary of State George Marshall describing how to rebuild Europe after the conclusion of WWII

Question 19

NATO

Answer 19

A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

Question 20

Prussia

Answer 20

Old name for current day Germany. Frederick the Great ruled at height of its power

Question 21

totalitarianism

Answer 21

One party political system with the goal of supporting the welfare of the state above all else.

Question 22

Versailles

Answer 22

Palace near Paris that was the seat of power for many French kings, including Louis XIV. Treaty of Versailles marked the conclusion of WWI.

Question 23

Warsaw Pact

Answer 23

A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European nations

Question 24

Waterloo

Answer 24

Napoleon’s greatest defeat

Question 25

Yalta

Answer 25

Island where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss the partitioning of Europe at the conclusion of WWII.