Key People 1
Name the Enlightenment thinker who wrote about natural rights and government by consent.
John Locke
This South African leader fought against apartheid and later became president.
Nelson Mandela
This is where the Industrial Revolution began.
Great Britain
Name one major cause of the French Revolution.
Rising cost of bread
Absolutism - abuse of power
Inequality of the Estates System
Enlightenment Ideas
National debt
Rising taxes
King was viewed as weak
Which economic system drove industrialization by allowing private individuals and companies to own factories and pursue profits
Capitalism
This this person introduced socialism to Russia in 1917
Vladimir Lenin
Using nonviolence and civil disobedience, this person helped end British colonial rule of India
Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi
Name the African country known for its long struggle against apartheid
South Africa
This conflict was characterized by a rivalry between the US and Soviet Union without direct fighting.
Cold War
The father of Communism
Karl Marx
This person led the communist revolution in China. His "Great Leap Forward" caused a massive famine.
Mao Zedong
Known for German unification, using "iron and blood." Later, organized the Berlin Conference.
Otto von Bismarck
The partition of India led to the creation of this country
Pakistan
In World War 2, there were two alliances- the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers. Name two major powers on each side.
Allied - US, Great Britain, Soviet Union, France
Axis - Germany, Italy, Japan
This ideology promotes a classless society and the government controls resources.
Marxism or Communism
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, this leader modernized Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
World War 1 began after the assassination of this heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Two reasons the Irish Potato Famine Occurred
- The Blight
- British exporting of Irish grain
This event was a 13-day standoff during the Cold War. The USSR had pointed nuclear weapons at the US.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
a "hands-off" philosophy or policy of leaving things to take their own course without interference
Laissez-faire
These two key leaders fought for independence in South America and Haiti.
Simon Bolivar
Toussaint Louverture
This person coined the terms Glasnost meaning government transparency
Mikhail Gorbachev
This massacre occured in China under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping
Tianamnien Square Massacre
Name two causes of Hitler's rise to power after World War 1.
Unfair terms to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles
Ineffectiveness of the Weimar Republic
Great Depression
The "father" of Capitalism
Adam Smith