Cultural Literacy terms

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  1. Pogrom- def.
  2. Archduke Francis Ferdinand- per.
  3. Berlin Airlift- event.
  4. Bolsheviks- def.
  5. Neville Chamberlain- per.
  6. Crimean War- event
  7. Dachau- place .
  8. Dunkirk- event
  9. Dreyfus Affair- event .
  10. Fifth column- def .
  11. Joseph Goebbels- per .
  12. Jacobins- def.
  13. T.E. Lawrence- per.
  14. Luddites- def.
  15. Marshall Plan- def.
  16. N.A.T.O.- def.
  17. Nuremberg Trials- event.
  18. Quisling- per/slang.
  19. Sputnik- def .
  20. Anwar Sadat- per.
  21. Six Day War- event
  22. Marshal Tito- per.
  23. Leon Trotsky- per.
  24. Vichy Government- def.
  25. Marbury vs. Madison- def
  26. Monitor vs. Merrimac- event
  27. Monroe Doctrine- def.
  28. Fort Sumter- place/event
  29. Harriet Tubman- per.
  30. Susan B Anthony- per.
  31. Catch 22 - def.
  32. Axis Powers- def.
  33. Boer War- event
  34. Battle of Britain- event
  35. Leonid Brezhnev- per.
  36. “Crossing the Rubicon”- def/slang
  37. Cuban Missile Crisis- event
  38. Dienbienphu- event .
  39. Frederich Engels- per .
  40. Glorious Revolution- event .
  41. “Final Solution”- event.
  42. Hernan Cortes- per .
  43. Genghis Khan- per .
  44. Punic Wars- event.
  45. Pangea- def.
  46. Alexander Hamilton- per.
  47. Marco Polo- per .
  48. Huns- def .
  49. Indulgence- def.
  50. Adolf Eichmann- per .
  51. Junta- def.
  52. Louis Armstrong- per .
  53. Deterrence- def .
  54. “Bohemian(ism)”- def./slang
  55. Suffrage- def .
  56. Aaron Copland- per .
  57. Hagia Sophia- place .
  58. Kitsch- def .
  59. Gilbert and Sullivan- per .
  60. Scott Joplin- per .
  61. Pavlov's Dogs- def.
  62. Henri Matisse- per.
  63. Andrew Carnegie- per .
  64. Laissez-faire- def .
  65. “ E Pluribus Unum”- def .
  66. Pablo Picasso- per.
  67. Will Rogers - per .
  68. Norman Rockwell- def .
  69. John Phillip Susa- per .
  70. Taj Mahal- place .
  71. Mutually Assured Destruction- def .
  72. Josef Stalin- per .
  73. Sit-in – def/ event
  74. Sacco and Vanzetti- per.
  75. Silent majority- def/slang
  76. William Seward- per.
  77. Coup d'etat- def.
  78. Communist- def.
  79. “Internationale”- def.
  80. “ Guernica ” def / painting.
  81. Balance of Trade- def.
  82. Great Depression- def.
  83. O.P.E.C.- def.
  84. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle- def.
  85. Spanish Inquisition- event/slang
  86. Zeitgeist- def.
  87. Niccolo Machiavelli- per .
  88. Dead Sea Scrolls- def .
  89. Status Quo- def .
  90. Mea Culpa- def .
  91. Pandora's Box- def .
  92. Cerberus- def./per .
  93. Pax Romana- def.
  94. Berlin Wall- def .
  95. Ottoman Empire- def .
  96. Third Reich- def .
  97. Rosa Parks- per .
  98. Prohibition- def .
  99. Red Scare- def.
  100. Jackie Robinson- per . 

 

Def = define, also any slang meaning

Per = person: why important, what did they do?

Event = where, when, what's the big deal?

Place = where, what's the big deal?

Slang = How is it used in common speech?