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HighFour World History Category D: Grades 11 – 12 Round 2 Thursday, September 22, 2016 The use of calculator is not required. Answer #1: Explanation:
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Wilhelm II Wilhelm was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia,
ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June
1888 to 9 November 1918.
The Gulag The term “GULAG” is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel’no-­‐trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps), that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era. Since the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in 1973, the term has come to represent the entire Soviet forced labor penal system. Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States, from 1933 to 1945. In the 1940 Presidential Election campaign, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised to keep America out of the war. Urbanization One of the defining and most lasting features of the Industrial Revolution
was the rise of cities. In pre-industrial society, over 80% of people lived
in rural areas. As migrants moved from the countryside, small towns
became large cities.
HighFour World History Category D: Grades 11 – 12 Round 2 Thursday, September 22, 2016 The use of calculator is not required. Answer #5: Explanation: Answer #6: Explanation: Answer #7: Explanation:
Answer #8: Explanation: Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her act of non violent defiance became an important symbol of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA. Jamestown, Virginia The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas Riot Act The wording that had to be read out to the assembled gathering was as
follows: “Our sovereign lord the King chargeth and commandeth all
persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and
peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon
the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for
preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.”
Julius Caesar Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Rome, on March 15, 44BC. As many as 60 conspirators, led by his rivals Brutus and Cassius, were involved in his assassination. HighFour World History Category D: Grades 11 – 12 Round 2 Thursday, September 22, 2016 The use of calculator is not required. Answer #9: Explanation:
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Answer #12: Explanation: Haitian Revolution U.S. political leaders, many of them slave owners, reacted to the
emergence of Haiti as a state borne out of a slave revolt with
ambivalence, at times providing aid to put down the revolt, and, later in
the revolution, providing support to Toussaint L’Ouverture’s forces. Due
to these shifts in policy and domestic concerns, the United States would
not officially recognize Haitian independence until 1862.
Clemenceau Mainly due to France’s huge loss of life, around 1.4million dead and the huge impact on the French countryside. Clemenceau, the president of France at the time, was outspoken in his absolute disgust for Germany and forced huge repatriations on them. His aim was to prohibit them form ever again forming a military force. Blitzkrieg Literally “lightning war”, first coined by the Germans, during World War
Two. The term referred to Germany’s use of new techniques of
mechanized and air warfare. Now, the term refers to an intense military
campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
The Lusitania The RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German submarine on Friday May 7 1915 during World War One. The ship had mainly British and American passengers. The sinking caused an international outcry. The British maintained that America must now declare war on Germany, however the President Woodrow Wilson, refused. The controversy was due to the fact that the ship was carrying a large amount of ammunitions, so was deemed by Germany, as a war ship. The controversy continues to this day. HighFour World History Category D: Grades 11 – 12 Round 2 Thursday, September 22, 2016 The use of calculator is not required. Answer #13: Explanation:
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Nuremberg Laws The Nuremberg Laws, as they became known, did not define a "Jew" as
someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, anyone who had three
or four Jewish grandparents was defined as a Jew, regardless of whether
that individual identified himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the
Jewish religious community. Many Germans who had not practiced
Judaism for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror.
Vladimir Lenin Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-­‐over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Bolshevik literally meaning ‘one of the majority’. A Bolshevik was a member of a
wing of the Russian Social-Democratic party which, led by Lenin, seized
control of the government in Russia in Oct 1917 and became the
dominant political power. The group originated at the party’s second
congress (1903) when Lenin’s followers, insisting that party membership
be restricted to professional revolutionaries, won a temporary majority on
the party’s central committee and on the editorial board of its newspaper
Iskra. They assumed the name Bolsheviks and dubbed their opponents the
Mensheviks (“Those of the Minority”).
Belgium Industrialization came quickly once established in England. Led by an
Englishman, John Cockerill, there were many factories and mills built by
1825.
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Answer #20: Explanation: Fidel Castro The Bay of Pigs was ultimately a failed military invasion which embarrassed the United States and increased rebellion activity in Cuba. On the 17th of April 1961, the CIA sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506, intended to take Castro’s Cuba by way of military invasion. They were defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Treaty of Kanagawa, or the Perry Convention Until this point, Japan had pursued a period of isolation. Foreign trade was rare, and only undertaken with Chinese and Dutch traders, under strict government control. Ultimately, the treaty led to the end of the 220-­‐year policy of isolation and ensured that the US could trade via the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate. Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. In
1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was
elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the
Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year.
Democracy Athens was one of the first known democracies. Democracy was generally believed to have been developed by Cleisthenes. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most following the Athenian model, but none are as well documented as Athens. It was a system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.