World History Questions

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in 1964, was a major turning point in United States military involvement in Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred in August 1964.

Henry VIII started the process of creating the Church of England after his split with the Pope in the 1530s. Henry was anxious to ensure a male heir after his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had borne him only a daughter.

During world war II, Germany was a member of the Axis powers.

Mercantilism was the principle that wealth of a nation comes from trading with other nations and also comes by imposing government regulations on all of the nation's economic interests.

The main principles of mercantilism:

• the country's wealth is determined by the amount of precious metals in the country,

• Wealth is created in business relations (International Trade)

• The goal is an active trade balance of trade,

• to serve protectionism, government subsidies and the issue of protective tariffs.

The Homestead Strike was when, in 1892, Andrew Carnegie reduced wages at his steel mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania and the union workers refused to accept the cut. The company locked out the union workers and hired nonunion labor and 300 armed guards. The locked out workers gathered weapons and , on July 6, a battle broke out killing ten people.

Yellow Hats, the newest of the schools of Tibetian Buddhism, was founded by Je Tsongkhapa. He was an admirer of the Kadampa teachings.

Revolution in Russia is the International event that led to the red scare.

The Oseberg Ship was in use for several years before 834 when it was finally used as a grave ship for two important women.

The Oseberg Ship was excavated in the summer of 1904 in the Slagen Valley in Vestfold, by archaeologist Gabriel Gustafson. The ship lay in a grave mound, which had a diameter of 44 meters, on property belonging to the farm Lille Oseberg.