Enlighenment and Revolutions
Time period in Europe when ideas about government and individual rights changed
This was the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
Taking over another territory for economic, political or social gain.
What is Imperialism?
Treaty that ended WWI; punished Germany for starting the war and created the League of Nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
System in which government controls all aspects of society.
What is totalitarianism?
Basic rights that all people are born with such as life, liberty and property.
What are Natural Rights?
What is Industrialization?
What are the Opium Wars?
International peacekeeping organization created following WWI to try to prevent another major war.
What is the League of Nations?
Government in which one party rules accoring to only their ideas.
What is fascism?
Belief that the right to rule came from God.
What is Divine Right?
What is capitalism?
Rapid modernization and westernization of Japan following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Russian communist party which seized control under the leadership of Lenin in 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
These were Stalin's plans for rapid increases in argricultural and industrial output.
What are the Five-Year Plans?
Period of the French Revolution where radicals seized control of the government.
Economic and political system in which the ruling party controls the government and economy; abolished private property.
What is communism?
Revolt of Indian members of the British East India Company's Army which led to complete British control of India.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
1917 British document which promised the zionists a homeland in Palestine in return for supporting the war effort.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
Process of placing all property/farmland under government control and forcing peasants to work while proceeds go to the state.
What is collectivization?
Meeting held to determine what to do in Europe following the defeat of Napoleon.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
What is the proletariat?
Meeting held in 1884-1885 to establish rules for claiming colonies in Africa.
What is Berlin Conference?
The ability of a group of people to choose the government under which they live.
What is self-determination?
This was the intentional starvation of the Ukrainians by Stalin when they resisted collectivization.
What is the Holodomor?