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The Franco-Prussian War created what new powerful nation?

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Germany

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When we talk of ‘Prussia,’ what area and people are we talking about?

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Germany
(Poland and Russia)

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Karl Marx wrote ‘Das Kapital’; Lenin adopted it, today we call that economic system?

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communism

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Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale were two women to serve in major 19th-century wars in what capacity?

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nurses and pioneers of medicine

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Chlorine, phosgene, and mustard were what type of new weapon developed during World War One?

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chemical gas weapons

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The United States joined what side of nations during World War I?

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Allied Powers

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President of the United States during World War I?

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Woodrow Wilson

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Most of us here in the US agree that these two brothers were the first to invent and successfully fly an airplane?

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wright brothers

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The von Schlieffen Plan was what nation’s attempt to win an immediate victory in World War I?

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Germany

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The United States believed what type of warfare was illegal and a violation of international law—led to the US entering WWI?

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submarine

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Hiram Maxim developed what new and better form of weapons (be specific)?

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the machine gun, maxim gun

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Boats that can submerge underwater—very dangerous to shipping?

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submarines

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The Congress of Vienna concluded what set of wars?

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Napoleonic wars

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What assassination triggered the outbreak of World War I?

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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who were the Allies?

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France, England, Russia, Italy, and later the U.S.A.

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who were the central powers?

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Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary

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Who are Air Aces?

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Special military aviators that shoot down enemy aircraft, the best of the best
Manfred von Richthofen
Eddie Rickenbacke
Billy Bishop

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What is trench warfare?

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type of combat where soldiers fight from networks of trenches and tunnels dug into the ground. they used barbed wire to protect them.

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what is poison gas and how was it used?

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chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas
caused blindness, suffocation, and lung damage

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What did barbed wire do?

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Protected the trenches and used to slow down the opposing forces.

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What are tanks?

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Helped with trench warfare because they were able to move past barriers and barbed wire. They also were used for shooting guns

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22
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What was the ‘14 Points?’

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Wilson’s plan to end WW1

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What was the treaty of versailles?

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the peace treat that officially ended WW1

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Kaiser Wilhem II

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last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia

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Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George

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British WW1 Prime Ministers

26
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Czar Nicholas II

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last emperor of Russia, end of the Romanov dynasty

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Alexander Bell

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telephone

28
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Elisha Gray

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designed a telephone using a water microphone in 1876, teleautograph

29
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Elias Howe and Isaac Singer

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sewing machines

30
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J. Pierpont Morgan

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money king

31
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Samuel Colt

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revolver pistol

32
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Colonel Edwin Drake

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1st oil well, Titusville, Pennsylvania

33
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John D. Rockefeller

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Standard Oil

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Rasputin

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the mad monk

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Henry Bessemer and Andrew Carniage

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steel

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George Eastman

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photography for everyone, Kodak

37
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Peter Cooper

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the Tom Thumb, steam engine railroads

38
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Robert Fulton

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steamboats

39
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Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck

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formation of Germany

40
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Christopher Sholes

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typewriter

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Cyrus McCormick and John Deere

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farm equipment

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Henry Fox- Talbot and Louis Daguerre

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photography

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Thomas Edison

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motion pictured camera, phonograph, projector, light bulb

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Michael Faraday

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generation electricity, dynamo

45
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Eli Whitney

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cotton gin and interchangeable parts

46
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Cyrus fields

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Atlantic cable

47
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Robert Stephenson

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Stephenson’s Rocket, early steam railroads

48
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James Watt and Oliver Evans

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steam engines

49
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Samuel Morse

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electric telegraph

50
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Charles Goodyear

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rubber tree, latex

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Luddites

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destroyed machines

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Franco-Prussian War

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formation of Germany

53
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Crimean War

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Russia vs Ottoman Empires (allies England and France)

failed to overthrow Russia

54
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Lenin

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established the Soviet Union, communism

55
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Trotsky

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key figure for the success of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War

56
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Stalin

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leader of the Soviet Union, totalitarianism, leading the country through WW2

57
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Eddie Rickenbacker

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U.S. air ace of WW1

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Who was the red baron?

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Manfred von Richthofen, Germany

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John Pershing

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American WW1 general

60
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Douglas Haig

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British WW1 General

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The Von Schlieffen Plan

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German battle plan for a quick WW1 victory

62
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Karl Marx

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communist manifesto

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