Important People
This Soviet leader was responsible for 5 Year Plans, Great Purges, and the Holodomor (famine in the Ukraine).
Who is Stalin?
This human rights violation involved the segregation of races in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
These are the long term causes of WWI.
What is MAIN - militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This conflict is often described as a period of tension between the US and Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
After the Partition of India, Muslims migrated to this nation.
What is Pakistan?
This Chinese leader was responsible for the Great Leap Forward, which created a massive famine, killing millions.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This document was created after the Holocaust to try to protect people's human rights and individual dignity.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This document demanded Germany lose their military and pay huge sums of reparations to the Allied nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This disputed land causes conflicts between India and Pakistan because the border is not clear.
Zionism encouraged Jews to migrate to this land to establish a homeland and safe-haven from antisemitism.
What is Israel?
This anti-apartheid leader became the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This policy in China sought to curb overpopulation.
What is the One Child Policy?
The Munich Conference was an example of this, where European countries allowed Hitler to act aggressively to try to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
The desire of Palestinians for their own independent state is a result of this ongoing conflict.
What is the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
A disease of this crop led to the migration of millions of Irish during the 1840s.
What is the potato?
This Turkish leader modernized/westernized the nation, introducing secular government and rights for women.
Who is Kemal Ataturk?
This leader collectivized Cambodia and created a genocide to destroy western ideas/supporters.
Who is Pol Pot?
This organization failed to keep the peace between WWI and WWII.
What is the League of Nations?
The Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese war signaled this country was a growing power in Asia.
What is Japan?
This process involved people moving from rural areas to the city to find jobs during the Industrial Revolution
What is urbanization?
This fundamentalist leader of Iran took control after the 1979 revolution. He instituted anti-western reforms.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
This president of Yugoslavia began a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" to eliminate Croats and others from Serb territory.
Who is Slobodan Milosevich?
The use of this on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war in the Pacific in WWII.
What is nuclear bombs?
France's loss in this war made them determined to get revenge against Germany in WWI.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
This group fled Israel during the War for Independence in 1948. Many are still waiting to be allowed to return.
Who are the Palestinians?