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World History #1
Stack #108204
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| introduced procaine(novocaine) | Braun |
| begins passive resistance in South Africa | Ghandi |
| The Psychology of Dementia Praecox | Jung |
| process for synthesizing ammonia | Haber |
| Olympic Games 1908 | London |
| went to the North Pole | Cook and Peary |
| crossed the English Channel by aircraft | Bleroit |
| Edward VII dies succeeded by | George V |
| Cape Colony,Orange River Colony,Natal, and the Transvaal | union of South Africa |
| First Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa | Botha |
| elected first president of China in 1911 | Yat-Sen |
| reached the South Pole | Amundsen |
| discovered Machu Pichu | Bingham |
| 1912 Olympic games | Stockholm |
| dies on the way back from the South Pole | Scott |
| made a new atom model | Bohr |
| sculpted The Little Mermaid | Eriksen |
| World War I begins at | Sarajevo |
| canal opened in 1914 | Panama |
| German U-boat sinks the- | Lusitania |
| Joseph dies and is succeeded by | Charles I |
| The Hero of Verdun | Petain |
| bloodiset battle in the history of warfare | The Battle of Somme |
| the monk that dies at Rasputin | Petrograd |
| 1916 Rebellion | Easter Rebellion |
| wireless message to the German ambassador | The Zimmerman Note |
| favoring a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine | The Balfour Declaration |
| begins after Nicholas II is abdicated | The Bolsevik Revolution |
| uses an oil drop experiment | Millikan |
| The Thinker, Gates of Hell, The Kiss | Rodin |
| Dancing Class, Balet Scene | Degas |
| Russia ends its participation in WWI with- | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| downs 80 Allied aircraft | The Red Baron |
| family executed by order of Bolsheviks | Romanov |
| La Mer, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Debussy |
| World War I ends in | Compiegne on a railway car |
| adopts a resolution for a League of Nations | The Versailles Peace Conference |
| Germany establishes the___which will rule until1933 | Weimar Republic |
| Polish pianist and composer, named head of Poland | Padereweski |
| Luncheon of the Boating Party | Renoir |
| The Baltic States the gained independence from Russia: | Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia |
| The League of Nations meets for the first time in- | Geneva |
| 1920 Olympic Games | Antwerp, Belgium |
| convened at The Hague | permanent Court of International Justice |
| A fascist dictatorship begins in 1922 in- | Italy |
| discovered Ur | Woolley |
| discovers the tomb of King Tut | Carter |
| isolated insulin | Best and Banting |
| staged the Beer Hall Putsch | Hitler |
| The Turkish Republic is proclaimed with | Kemal |
| dies of sclerosis | Lenin |
| first-ever winter olympics | Chamonix |
| La Boheme, Madama Butterfly | Puccini |
| dies of cancer | Yat-Sen |
| succeeded Yat-Sen | Kai-shek |
| succeede Yoshihito | Hirohito |
| flew over the North Pole | Byrd,Bennett |
| first woman to swim the English Channel | Ederle |
| Water-Lily Pond, Impression: Sunrise | Monet |
| postulates Uncertainty Principle | Heisenberg |
| world famous dancer killed by her scarf | Duncan |
| signed by 63 world powers in an attempt to outlaw war | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| Coming of Age in Samoa | Mead |
| proves that penicillin has anti-bacterial properties | Fleming |
| 1928 Olympic games | Amsterdam |
| restores temporal powers to Vatican City | Lateran Treaty |
| completes the first ever round the world air trip | The Graf Zeppelin |
| crowned head of Ethiopia | Selassie |
| in 1931 Japan invades | Manchuria |
| begins a fast unto death | Ghandi |
| discovers the neutron | Chadwick |
| 1932 Olympic Games | Los Angeles |
| first concentration camp | Dachau |
| Hitler comes to power as Chancellor of Germany in | 1933 |
| Chinese Commmunist forces begin The Long March under | Zedong |
| Italian troops invade__in 1935 | Ethiopia |
| deprive Jews of German citizenship | Nuremberg Laws |
| invented radar | Watson-Watt |
| invents the scale for measuring earthquake intensity | Richter |
| leads a coup that overthrows the government in Nicaragua | Somoza |
| takes over the Gestapo in 1936 | Himmler |
| 1936 Olympics | Berlin |
| single handedly upsets Hitler's theories with four Gold Medals | Owens |
| succeeded George V | Edward VIII |
| Basque town decimated by aerial attack | Guernica |
| Japanese bombers attack near Nanking | The Panay Incident |
| Japanese force invade China 1937 | The Rape of Nanking |
| Bolero, Spanish Rhapsody | Ravel |
| Germany annexes- | Austria |
| "I believe it is peace for our time." | Chamberlain |
| Jewish shop windows smashed and 30,000 Jews sent to concentration camp | Kristalnacht riots |
| World War II begins as- | Germany invades Poland |
| German pocket battleshipin the Battle of the River Platte | Graf Spee |
| invented the helicopter | Sikorsky |
| Nazi government set up in Norway | Quisling |
| put into action by German airforce and ground forces | Blitzkrieg |
| evacuated in early June | Dunkirk |
| exiled from Russia | Trotsky |
| launches an all-out attack on Britain | The German Luftwaffe |
| Axis Power | Germany,Italy,Japan |
| Russian Army kills 4000 | Katyn Forest Massacre |
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