Global Power Struggles
This term describes when a powerful country extends its political, military, or economic influence over another region.
What is imperialism?
This style of fighting on the Western Front focused on defense and often resulted in stalemate during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
This revolutionary was the first leader of the Soviet Union, but he died 2 years after the establishment of the communist regime.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This 1919 agreement punished Germany harshly after WWI, leading to the rise of an extremist government.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This tool of control was supported by technological advancements in printing and the radio.
What is propaganda?
Though neither superpower fought each other directly, conflicts in places like Korea and Vietnam became examples of this type of Cold War struggle for global influence.
What is a proxy war?
This Cold War conflict ended in a stalemate that left a country still divided today.
What is the Korean War?
This leader promoted nonviolent resistance against British rule in India.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This German military strategy during WWI led to the United States entering the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This concept describes the idea that governments used full economic and social mobilization to support military operation.
What is total war?
This post-WWII division created two independent states in South Asia and led to mass migration and violence between religious groups.
What is Partition?
This Soviet explosive device, tested in 1961, remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
What is the Tsar Bomba?
This leader originally rose to power in a struggling democratic system but used emergency powers and political instability to dismantle that system entirely.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This uprising was meant to overthrow Company rule, but instead it strengthened imperial control by beginning the British Raj.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This racist belief was used by European imperial powers to justify expanding control over Africa and Asia.
What is the "White Man's Burden" / Civilizing Mission?
This type of imperial control allowed local rulers to remain in power while the imperial power managed foreign policy and military affairs.
What is a protectorate?
This secret wartime venture was intended to end World War II quickly, but its success also began an era in which global destruction could occur in a matter of hours.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This leader introduced reforms intended to modernize the Soviet Union, but many historians argue those same reforms accelerated the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This 19th-century meeting attempted to reduce conflict between European powers, but instead helped create artificial borders whose effects still contribute to ethnic and political tensions today.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This cultural and economic idea argues that global society is becoming more uniform due to the spread of fast food, media, and consumer culture, though critics say it reduces cultural diversity.
What is McDonaldization?
This community in this African country ultimately became associated with violent resistance to nationalism and mass migration back to Europe after independence.
Who are the pieds-noirs in Algeria?
This war between these two countries shocked many observers by revealing that modernization and industrial military reforms had shifted the balance of power in East Asia.
What is the Sino-Japanese War and China/Japan?
This leader oversaw rapid modernization that transformed this country into an industrial power, but also contributed to growing imperial ambitions that shifted global power balances.
Who is Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan?
This early Cold War decision aimed to increase control held by this Bloc by cutting off the other side's supply lines, but failed and became a propaganda victory for the other side.
What is the Berlin Blockade and the Eastern Bloc?
The invention of this specific weapon in 1884 and this medication in 1820 made it easier for imperialist nations to conquer less technologically advanced areas.
What are the maxim gun and quinine?