Industrial Revolution
The shift from hand-made production to factory and mass-production.
What is industrialization?
The short-term cause that immediately led to the outbreak of WWI.
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The act of one country taking over another country for its natural resources, to gain power, and to spread Christianity, among other reasons.
What is imperialism?
The United States foreign policy of trying to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
The act and process of one country taking over another country but also living and settling in that country.
What is colonization?
The process of people moving into, and as a result, a growth in the number of cities.
What is urbanization?
The building and strengthening of armies, and the idea that every nation must have an army ready.
What is militarism?
What is for natural resources?
The term used by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the division between Soviet dominated East and US dominated West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The process of a country removing the foreign (colonizing) powers and declaring independence, ultimately becoming their own nation.
What is decolonization?
Name ONE problem that resulted from factory work.
Child labor, poor working conditions, long working hours, no education for kids, pollution, poor living conditions.
Holes dugout in the ground where soldiers lived and fought from.
What is trench warfare?
A meeting of European powers to discuss the carving up of Africa among themselves.
What was the Berlin Conference?
The relaxing of tensions between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is detente?
Two part question, you need to answer both parts correctly to get the credit:
Racial segregation in South Africa.
The nationalist leader who helped end this racial segregation in South Africa.
What is apartheid and who is Nelson Mandela?
Name ONE solution that was created to resolve ONE of the issues.
Mandatory education for children, 40 hour work week limit, minimum wage created, environmental protection laws, fire escapes mandatory for factories.
The two Japanese cities that were hit with an atomic bomb by the United States.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A treaty that resulted in Great Britain gaining greater control over China and its trade. This treaty ended the Opium Wars.
What was the Treaty of Nanjing?
A military alliance and collective security among Western (democratic) countries during the Cold War.
What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Nationalist leader that introduced communism into China, and made reforms such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Who was Mao Zedong?
A result of industrialization, due to countries looking for cheaper methods to manufacture goods.
What is imperialism?
Leaders have used this to display biased messages in media and often distort the truth.
What is propaganda?
The mentality and justification of Europeans for taking over other countries, which was that those countries "needed their help" and it was up to the Europeans to provide this help.
What was the White Man's Burden?
An alliance and collective security among the Eastern (Communist) countries during the Cold War.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Leader who tried to balance capitalist elements with communist practices in China but was not entirely successful in doing so.
Who was Deng Xiaoping?