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Indian Soldiers in the British Indian Army | Sepoys |
Last Dynasty of Imperial China | Manchu/Qing |
19th century religious uprising in China | Taiping Rebellion |
Secret society trying to push the West out of China, 1900 | Boxer Rebellion |
Elite Troops of the Ottoman Empire | Janissaries |
Organization advocating reform in the Ottoman Empire now used to mean those who advocate substantial change in any organization. | Young Turks |
Initiated Scramble for Africa | Berlin Conference, 1884 |
Leader of Japan's military government prior to the Emperor Meiji | Shogun |
Austrian Archduke whose assassination in 1914 sparked World War I | Francis Ferdinand |
British ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915. | Lusitania |
Peace Treaty after World War I which also created The League of Nations | Treaty of Versailles, 1919 |
King of Great Britain during the American Revolution | George III |
Last Kaiser of Germany abdicated at the end of World War I | Wilhelm II |
German united as a result of what 19th century conflict in 1871 | Franco-Prussian War |
Leader credited with the unification of Germany | Otto von Bismarck (Chancellor) |
The destruction of the U.S.S. Maine helped lead to what conflict | Spanish-American War, 1898-1901. The Maine blew up in Havana harbor. |
The last czar of imperial Russia was | Nicholas II |
He was known as the Czar Liberator because he emancipated the serfs in Russia at about the same time of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation | Alexander II |
This mystical monk had power in the Russian imperial court because of his healing abilities, he symbolized the corruption of the court | Rasputin (He was believed to be able to help the Czar's young son who suffered from hemophilia) |
Conflict between the Ottoman Empire, Britain, and France vs Russia in the mid 19th century | Crimean War |
Conflict between coalitions headed by Britain and France which lead to the British dominating North America and India | Seven Years War/French and Indian War, 1756-1763 |
King of France During the French Revolution | Louis XVI (Family name Bourbon) |
French Revolution by the storming of what fort/prison in Paris | The Bastille (Bastille day is July 14th) |
This U.S. President was assassinated in Buffalo NY in 1901 | William McKinley |
Napoleon's army was destroyed when he attacked what country in 1812 | Russia |
What czar attempted to modernize Russia in the early 1700s. | Peter the Great(Constructed the city of St. Petersburg giving Russia a major port on the Baltic) |
What three Baltic states became independent of Russia after World War I | Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (They were reabsorbed by the Soviet Union in 1940 as a result of the Nazi-Soviet Pact) |
What revolutionary leader was sent by the Germans to Russia in 1917 in a sealed train | Lenin |
Lenin overthrew the provisional government led by what moderate socialist leader | Alexander Kerensky |
What two colors served as symbols of the two sides of the Russian civil war after World War I | The Reds vs the Whites (White is the color of counter-revolution in Europe) |
Led the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution | Robespierre (He himself was executed) |
Last queen of France during the French Revolution supposed said when the peasants had no bread, "Let them eat Cake" | Marie Antonette (She was an Austrian princess) |
The Dual Monarchy controlled much of central Europe until the end of World War I. What two modern day countries made up the dual monarchy | Austria and Hungary |
This American president won reelection in 1916 with the slogan "He kept us out of war" | Woodrow Wilson |
Wilson proposed peace based on what | 14 Points (Essentially a peace without victors) |
The League of Nations was based in what European city | Geneva, Switzerland |
The Easter Rising of April 1916 lead what country to eventually achieve independence | Ireland |
President Teddy Roosvelt was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for mediating the end of what conflict | Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 |
Italy was defeated by what African country in the mid 1890s | Ethiopia |
Teddy Roosevelt attempted to win the presidency for a third term in what year? | 1912 (He challenged William Howard Taft at the Republican convention. He lost the nomination but came in second in the election. Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 election) |