The cotton gin, which mechanically separated seeds from cotton “lint” or fiber, was invented in Georgia by New England school teacher Eli Whitney. What was significance of this American agricultural device for the British industrial revolution?

Which of the following was not a key component of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis’ political rhetoric?

1 million people were killed in combat and another 500,000 executed during the Russian Civil War, which pitted the “Red” Bolsheviks against the “Whites.” Who were the Whites?

Why did American president Harry Truman decide to use the atomic bomb against Japan?

What was the result of Britain’s week-long artillery bombardment of the Germans, followed by a massive infantry attack, at the Somme in 1916?

The Austrian Empire reorganized and adapted itself several times to prevent the nationalist breakaway of what large people group within its borders?

What medical technology further steepened the declining birth rate in Western countries during the 1960s and 70s?

Identification 1:

Which of the following countries was not divided into rival Communist and democratic halves during the Cold War?

Nationalist rebels in what region of the British Empire staged a violent uprising on Easter Sunday 1916 that was militarily defeated but eventually resulted in their independence?