Transcript World History Review Game (Jeopardy)

Jeopardy
Early
Civilizations
Through
Renaissance
Exploration
Through
Industrialization
World
War I and
The Inter-War
Period
World War II
Post
World War II
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Final Jeopardy
1 - $100
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Disagreements over leadership lead these two
groups of Muslims to split from each other. One
of these groups believed that leaders should be
decedents of Muhammad.
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Who are Sunni and Shia Muslims?
1 - $200
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This religion contributed to the strict caste
system of Indian society.
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What is Hinduism?
1 - $300
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In this medieval system, society was hierarchal
with the king, nobles and lords (and sometimes
knights) owning land, while the peasants/serfs
worked the land.
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What is feudalism?
1 - $400
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This Italian city grew to power through trade,
and the Medici family helped make it the cultural
center of the Renaissance.
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What is Florence?
1 - $500
This artist’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel in Rome shows idealized human and divine
beauty. He was also an accomplished sculptor and
architect.
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Who is Michelangelo?
2 - $100
He was an Enlightenment philosopher who
challenged absolute monarchy and divine right. He
said that everyone was entitled to natural rights
and that citizens could overthrow a government
that did not protect those rights.
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Who is John Locke?
2 - $200
He challenged Christianity and absolutism. He also
encouraged freedom of speech and his ideas are
evident in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution
and the French Declaration of Rights of Man
during French Revolution.
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Who is Voltaire?
2 - $300
He also challenged absolute monarchy with his
theory of popular sovereignty – that the
government gains its power from the people. His
ideas would be instrumental in the development of
democracy and socialism.
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Who is Rousseau?
2 - $400
His book entitled The Wealth of Nations, supported
capitalism and focused on private ownership, selfinterest and laissez-faire.
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Who is Adam Smith?
2 - $500
This occurred during industrialization and refers to
the result of people moving from rural areas to
take factory jobs, which led to the rapid growth of
cities.
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What is urbanization?
3 - $100
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The war front for this war was characterized by
trench warfare, “no man’s land”, the introduction
of new technologies and high casualty rates.
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What is World War I?
3 - $200
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This treaty, which described the peace terms of
World War I, included punishment for Germany
and redistribution of Ottoman territories to the
control of the Allies under the mandate system.
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What is the Treaty of Versailles?
3 - $300
A communist revolution occurred in this country
before the end of World War I, mainly because the
people were poor, tired of the absolute rule of the
czar and frustrated with the massive losses from
World War I.
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What is Russia?
3 - $400
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This communist leader put in place his First Five
Year Plan to increase industrialization and
production in the Soviet Union.
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Who is Stalin?
3 - $500
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The fascist dictators who came to power in
Germany, Italy and Japan before World War II.
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Who are Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito?
4 - $100
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Japan launched an attack on this U.S. naval base
in Hawaii, pulling the U.S. into World War II.
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What is Pearl Harbor?
4 - $200
This refers to the killing of millions of Jews and
others as a part of the Nazi ideology during World
War II.
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What is the Holocaust?
4 - $300
This battle was significant because it relieved
pressure on the eastern front, and the Allies
pushed the Axis powers from Africa into Italy, and
forced an end to Mussolini’s power.
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What is El-Alamein?
4 - $400
In this battle, the Soviet Union stopped the
German advance, despite heavy losses and
destruction there. This would cause tension
between the USSR and the Allies later, because
Stalin wanted the Allies to invade on the western
front sooner.
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What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
4 - $500
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This Allied victory in the Pacific was the first
amphibious landing for the Allies, and helped
prevent Japanese expansion.
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What is Guadalcanal?
5 - $100
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These men were the leaders of Great Britain, the
Soviet Union, and the United States (name both)
during the World War II peace conferences.
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Who are Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and Truman
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During this World War II conference, Churchill,
Roosevelt, and Stalin made the plans for D-Day,
which would pin Hitler in Europe and free Paris.
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What is the Teheran conference?
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During this World War II Conference, Stalin,
Roosevelt and Churchill discussed plans for
defeating Germany as fast possible and Stalin
agreed to free elections in Eastern Europe.
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What is the conference at Yalta?
5 - $400
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This international organization was created after
World War to be a peacekeeping agency. The
five permanent members, or the Security
Council, are the U.S., Russia, the United
Kingdom, France and China.
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What is the United Nations?
5 - $500
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In this country, the Hutus enacted genocide
against the Tutsis during the 1990s. In the span
of about 100 days, over 800,000 Tutsis were
killed.
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What is Rwanda?
Final Jeopardy
These absolute rulers of France, Russia and Japan
around the 17th century are often compared to
each other. These absolute monarchs controlled
religion and the nobility, created bureaucracies,
and increased the size and power of their courts.
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Who are Louis XIV, Peter the Great and
Tokugawa Ieyasu?