The New Era

Geopolitics in 1919

100

The word "liberal" in liberal democracy indicates that it is a system that although the majority rules, they cannot violate the __________ of the minority.

rights

200

In general, Liberal Democracies tend to answer the second basic question societies must ask--how we distribute scarce resources--with this economic system.

capitalism

300

In what country did the first Communist Revolution take place.

Russia

400

This hyphenated term refers to a country that is made up mostly of a people with some shared commonality living under an independent and sovereign government.

nation-state

500

The term for supreme authority within a territory — no outside power has the legal right to interfere.

sovereignty

The Legacy of World War I

100

Woodrow Wilson's Plan for peace included the creation of this international institution.

The League of Nations

200

The "war guilt" clause of the Versailles Treaty placed the blame for the war entirely on this country.

Germany

300

The secret 1916 Sykes Picot Agreement divided the old Ottoman lands of the middle east between these two European powers.

UK and France

400

One of Wilson's Fourteen Points was this principle that unique nations (at least in Europe) get to live under leaders and laws of their own choosing.

National Self-Determination

500

At the Paris Peace Conference, France and the UK were given control of some parts of the Middle East and Africa as _____________ of civilization.

Mandates

The Colonial World

100

This leader is most associated with the Indian Non-Cooperation movement against British colonial rule.

Gandhi

200

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 expressed Britain's support for a Jewish homeland in this region of the Middle East.

Palestine

500

This 1919 massacre of Indians by British troops convinced many, including future Indian Prime Minster Jawarhalal Nehru, that British colonial control of India must end.

The Amritsar Massacre