Enlightenment & Revolutions
John Locke believed that all people are born with these.
What are natural rights?
A time when new farming methods and tools greatly increased food production in the 1700s
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Territory controlled and governed by a foreign power
What is a colony?
First place atomic weapon used in war
What is Hiroshima?
Physical barrier whose fall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War
What is the Berlin Wall?
He started as a soldier, crowned himself emperor, and died in exile.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Where it started because of its geographic features (rivers, harbors, coal fields)
What is Great Britain?
Conflict which ended with The Treaty of Nanjing
What is the Opium War?
The 1919 peace treaty that ended World War I
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The U.S. strategy during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?
Robespierre used the guillotine to enforce his vision during this phase of the French Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror?
The idea that governments should not interfere in the economy; "hands-off" approach
What is laissez-faire?
The meeting in 1884–85 where European powers divided Africa among themselves
What is the Berlin Conference?
Systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews & millions of others by the Nazis
What is the Holocaust?
South African system of segregation where white minority had all the power
What is apartheid?
Toussaint L'Ouverture led this to create the first nation created by former slaves.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Social class that makes profits from labor of workers
What is the bourgeoisie?
Rebellion that convinced the British to take over India once and for all
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
A policy of giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
1962 incident that brought world close to a nuclear war
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen was created in which phase of the French Revolution?
What is the National Assembly?
Karl Marx co-wrote this in response to the huge inequities created by capitalism
What is The Communist Manifesto?
Famous poem that exemplifies Social Darwinism
What is The White Man's Burden?
Group that took power in Russia in 1917 and established a communist government
What are the Bolsheviks?
Empire whose collapse after WWI resulted in Middle East mandates, independence movements in Africa, & a modernized Turkey
What is the Ottoman Empire?