World History Final Jeopardy
Review Game
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WWII
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Name the kings who consulted
the gods through the use of
oracle bones?
Who are the Shang ?
A1
Name the ruler who was famous
for a uniform code of laws that
unified his empire?
Who is Hammurabi?
A2
Name the belief in many
gods.
What is Polytheism?
A3
What scientific concept did
Indian astronomers prove long
before the Europeans did?
That the Earth is Round
A4
Name the ruler was
considered to be both a king and
a god?
What is Pharoah?
A5
Why was Alexandria Egypt,
important during the Hellenistic
period?
It became the foremost center of
commerce and Hellenistic culture.
A6
What is the Indus Valley
Civilization sometimes
called?
What is the Harappan
Civilization
A7
What concept was the
belief in “divine right” used
to support?
Absolute rule
A8
How did the first Americans
support themselves?
Hunting and Gathering
A9
Name the oldest known city
in Africa south of the
Sahara?
What is Djenne-Djeno?
A10
The German Blitzkrieg was a military
strategy that depended on what
advantage?
Surprise and overwhelming
force
B1
Name the title of Hitler’s book?
What is Mein Kampf ?
Which means My Struggle
B2
Why did Britain and France
adopt a policy of appeasement
toward Germany?
Wished to avoid war with
Germany.
B3
What prompted Great Britain
and France to declare war on
Germany?
Invasion of Poland
B4
That Hitler’s advances could be
blocked.
What lesson was learned from
the Battle of Britain?
B5
What was significant about the
Battle of Midway?
It was the turning point of the
pacific war against Japan
B6
In Germany, what effect did the
Nuremberg Laws have?
German Jews were stripped of
citizenship, jobs, and property.
B7
For German Jews wishing to
emigrate out of Germany, what
problems did they run into?
Other nations set quotas on the
number of German Jews they
would accept.
B8
What event was described as
“A date that will live in
infamy”?
B9
Name the worst of the
Nazi concentration
camps.
B10
What action on November 11,
1918 brought an end to WWI?
An Armistice was signed
C1
What is the policy of glorifying
power and keeping an army
prepared for war?
Militarism
C2
What region was referred to as the
Powder Keg of Europe?
The Balkan Peninsula
C3
Who led Germany during the last
decade of the 1800’s and most of
WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
C4
How did Hitler rationalize the
taking of the Sudetenland to the
German people and the world?
Czechs were abusing GermanSpeaking people
C5
How did Italy follow the
aggressive actions of its
neighbor Germany?
Italy invaded one of the
last independent nations in
Africa, Ethiopia.
C6
How did the Axis Powers
hope to keep the United
States out of the war?
By forming an alliance, the
Axis Powers created a “two
ocean war” for the
United States.
C7
What plan called for the attack on
France first and then Russia?
What is the Schlieffen Plan
C8
Why were Germany and
Austria Hungary called
the Central Powers?
C9
Which nation cause
the U.S. to fight in
World War I?
C10
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Radical Russian Marxist
Revolutionaries
D1
What did the pogroms do that
occurred in the late 19th century
Russia?
Persecuted the Jews
D2
Who fought in the Peloponnesian
War?
Athens and Sparta
D3
What do we call the forced
dispersal of the Jews?
Diaspora
D4
What was unusual about the West
African Iron Age?
West Africa skipped the Copper
and Bronze Age
D5
Who were the Mamelukes?
D6
Turkish slaves who became a
powerful force in the Abbasid
Empire
Name the title Ivan III use?
What is Czar?
D7
The Treaty of Verdun
resulted in?
The division of Charlemagne’s
empire into 3 parts
D8
The main difference between the
original Roman Empire and the Holy
Roman Empire of Frederick I was what?
Frederick’s empire had no strong
central government
D9
The Maya wrote on
a bark-paper book
known as a
D10
Name Mali’s first great leader?
Who is Sundiata?
E1
Leader of the Fascist
government in Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
E2
Leader whose totalitarian
regime was based on a
communist philosophy.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
E3
Name the first European to sail
around the tip of Africa, now
known as the Cape of Good
Hope?
Who is Bartolomeau Dias?
E4
Who first landed in an island in
the Caribbean Sea 1492?
Christopher Columbus
E5
The heliocentric, or sun-centered,
theory was proposed by?
Copernicus
E6
The Bill of Rights was proposed by ?
Who is Voltaire, John Locke
E7
and Rosseau
Who seized power from Persia’s
shah and changed the name of his
country to Iran?
Reza Shah Pahlavi
E8
Who led the famous Salt March?
Mohandis Gandhi
E9
In 1978, the Camp David Accords
were signed by who?
Anwar Sadat and Menachem
Begin
E10
Egypt seized control of
the Suez Canal
F1
During the Cultural
Revolution, who were the “new
heroes” of China?
The Peasants
F2
What is the policy of South
African that means separating the
races?
Apartheid
F3
The fall of Communism
in East Germany
F4
Name the Russian Republic’s first
elected president?
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
F5
To prevent the spread
of nuclear weapons to
other nations
F6
The idea that nations are
dependent on other nations
and affected by the actions
of others far away.
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F7
She named one infant
emperor and then
another
F8
By taxing the goods
traders carried through
their territory.
F9
F10
He overthrew the
Mongols and
established the Ming
Dynasty.