World Hist. Key Terms & People Refresher

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  1. 4. These can be helpful when a country needs support from other countries, but they also partly caused WWI.
  2. 8. Last name of famous scientist and thinker responsible for developing the laws of gravity.
  3. 10. These long, narrow ditches became a major focal point of battle strategies in WWI.
  4. 11. This streaming service, which started in 1997 as a DVD rental company, had earnings in 2021 of about $29.7 billion.
  5. 15. Name of continent where majority of WWI was fought from July 1914 to November 1918.
  6. 16. This is a policy of expanding a country's power and influence often by military force.
  7. 20. The 13 states in newly formed U.S. declared independence from this country on July 4, 1776.
  8. 21. Country spanning into Europe and Asia that exited WWI with possibly 2+ million soldiers dead.
  9. 22. This period from 1600-1800 brought new ideas in areas of science, government and society.
  10. 25. Emperor Menelik II was somehow able to keep this African country free from European takeover in late 1800s and early 1900s.
  11. 27. These companies owned by those holding stocks became common during the Industrial Revolution as profits soared for many businesses and tycoons.
  12. 28. Country that rejected the Treaty of Versailles and decided to not join League of Nations after WWI.
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  1. 1. Germany made a major error when this was discovered, which brought the United States into WWI.
  2. 2. As seen all over news lately, Russia is close to invading this country in Eastern Europe.
  3. 3. Last name of Supreme Court justice who announced his pending retirement in January 2022.
  4. 5. Name of female American icon who died on December 31, 2021, at age 99, and starred on show 'The Golden Girls' as Rose Nylund.
  5. 6. Name of web-based word game first made public in October 2021 that has gained significant popularity as many people post their results on social media.
  6. 7. He was founder of communism with theories that went against ideas of free markets and capitalism.
  7. 9. Winning team and host city of Super Bowl 56 played on February 13 in front of 62,417 in attendance.
  8. 12. This became grim weapon of choice for some tyrants like Robespierre during the French Revolution.
  9. 13. Method that came from Enlightenment Age and still useful today in testing scientific theories.
  10. 14. European country with Poland at one border that has suffered two major losses in each world war.
  11. 16. This revolution brought useful machinery and transportation, but also made it easier for weaker countries to be conquered and occupied by stronger countries.
  12. 17. Information used, often unfairly, to sway opinion against a certain person, group or even country.
  13. 18. Last name of realist author in 1800s whose works exposed poor city and working conditions.
  14. 19. When governments make lower and middle classes pay high amounts of these, people sometimes start revolutions.
  15. 23. These types of sources like diaries, artifacts and original pictures provide useful information about history.
  16. 24. Serbian military group partially responsible for starting WWI in 1914.
  17. 26. This is a country or territory with its own internal government but controlled by an outside power.