World Leaders
This French king was executed during the French Revolution in 1793.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The movement of people from farms to cities in search of factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
Fighting from heavily fortified ditches that stretched across battlefields during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
The campaign of refusing to buy British goods that Gandhi used against colonial rule.
What is a boycott?
Countries such as India and Egypt pursued this policy of avoiding siding with either Cold War superpower bloc.
What is nonalignment?
This Belgian monarch personally controlled the Congo Free State and became infamous for brutal colonial policies.
Who is King Leopold II?
The transformation of an economy through the growth of factories and machine production.
What is industrialization?
A style of conflict in which small groups use hit-and-run tactics against larger armies.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The division of British India into separate states in 1947.
What is partition?
Eastern European nations under Soviet influence were often described using this term.
What are satellite countries?
This Soviet leader transformed the USSR through collectivization and five-year plans.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Worker organizations formed to improve wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions (trade unions)?
The buildup of armed forces and military capabilities before World War I. A word in the acronym MAIN.
What is militarism?
The increasing interconnectedness of economies, cultures, and societies around the world.
What is globalization?
A temporary easing of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union during the 1970s.
What is détente?
This Iranian monarch was overthrown during the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Who is Mohammad Reza Shah?
Economic shortages caused by a lack of available resources.
What is scarcity?
The deliberate extermination of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
President Wilson proposed these as a blueprint for lasting peace after World War I.
What are the 14 Points?
Reducing or eliminating weapons stockpiles is known as this.
What is disarmament?
This Chinese Communist leader launched the Great Leap Forward.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Taxes placed on imported goods to protect domestic industries.
What are protective tariffs?
A military strategy using surprise attacks and fast-moving forces, employed by Germany early in World War II. Translated to "lightning war".
What is blitzkrieg?
Territories formerly controlled by Germany and the Ottoman Empire were administered under this postwar arrangement.
What is the mandate system?
Negotiation and discussion between nations to resolve disputes peacefully.
What is diplomacy?