II.Explanation（20%）
1.The Wars of the Roses
2.Heptarchy
3.The Norman Conquest
4.The Hundred Years''War
5.King Alfred the Great
6.The Beatles
7.The Gunpowder Plot of 1605
8.The Levelers
9.Rotten boroughs
10.The State Opening of Parliament
11.quality papers and popular papers
12.the eleven－plus
13.Easter uprising of 1916
14.Anglo－Irish Treaty（1921）
15.Peace Agreement on Northern Ireland（1998）
16.The Manifest Destiny
17.Little Rock Incident
18.The Port Huron Statement
19.The New Deal
20.The Red Scare of 1919－1920
21.The New Right Conservatism
22.Counterculture
23.The Electoral College
24.Judicial review
25.Winner-take-all
26.Jazz
27.Harlem Renaissance
28.Thanksgiving Day
29.The Canadian Shield
30.Quebec Act off 1774
31. The Act of Union 1840
32. The British North America Act of 1867
33. Outback
34. Great Dividing Range in Australia
35. Great Barrier Reef
36. “School of the Air”
37. Flying Doctors
38. Kiwi
39. The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840：
40. Maoritanga