KB World HISTORY 2013 #4 Flashcards
What Italian adventurer wrote about his travels to China to see the ruler Kublai Khan?
Marco Polo
What composer wrote some of his greatest music after he became deaf?
Beethoven
What is the name of the tomb built by the Shah Jahan of India to honor the memory of his wife?
Taj Mahal
What victim of the Holocaust wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?
Anne Frank
What blind Greek poet wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Homer
What man urged the people of India to overcome British rule through nonviolent protest?
Mohandas Gandhi (often called Mahatma [Great Soul] Gandhi)
What country is the world’s largest producer of diamonds?
South Africa
The assassination of what man was a causative factor in the beginning of World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What treaty officially ended World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
What was the nickname given to Hitler’s new era of German history?
Third Reich
Adolf Hitler blamed all of Germany’s problems on what group of people?
the Jews
During World War II, who were the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
During World War II, the U.S. led the allies along with Great Britain, China, and what country?
the Soviet Union
What is the name given to the mass murder of the Jews during World War II?
the Holocaust
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Magellan
