World History People and Places AD 1900 - 1917
What European nation’s empire covered one quarter of the globe by 1900 and forcibly introduced opium to China? | England |
What ‘lost’ Protestant missionary-explorer did Henry Morton Stanley find near Africa’s Lake Tanganyika in 1871? | David Livingston |
What Dutch-speaking group fought and forced Britain to give them concessions in South Africa in 1910? | Boers |
What large South African tribe posed the greatest threat to advancing Boers and English in the 19th century? | Zulus |
A late 19th century Chinese movement that used violence against Europeans, missionaries and Chinese Christians. | Boxers |
The Wright Brothers first flew in 1903, the same year as this industrialist established the first automobile plant. | Henry Ford |
What Mexican rebel, along with Emiliano Zapata, overthrew the government in 1910? | Pancho Villa |
In what city was Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by a Serbian terrorist, starting World War I? | Sarajevo |
The Central Powers included the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany and what other empire? | Ottoman Turks |
What group was the target of mass genocide in Islamic Turkey in 1915? | Christian Armenians |