Age of Exploration
This country led the way in exploration
What is Portugal?
Form of government where the monarch held unlimited power
What is an absolute monarchy?
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The belief in the superiority of one's own country
What is nationalism?
Birth place of the Industrial Revolution
What is Britain?
Powerful countries extending their control over weaker countries
What is imperialism?
Year WWI began
What is 1914?
Year the Russian Revolution began
What is 1917?
Year WWII began in Europe
What is 1939?
Goal of the Soviet Union
What is to spread communism worldwide?
This country established a colony at Cape Town, south Africa
What is the Netherlands?
Louis XIV's magnificent home
What is the Palace of Versailles?
This Estate represented the vast majority of the population
What is the Third Estate?
He led Germany's reunification movement
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This industry played a key role in spread of the Industrial Revolution
What is the textile industry?
This continent was a prime target for imperialism in the late 19th century
What is Africa?
First country to declare war
What is Austria-Hungary?
The last Tsar of Russia
Who is Nicholas II?
lightening war
What is blitzkrieg?
Goal of the United States
What is to contain the spread of communism?
D A I L Y D O U B L E
He was the first to explorer to reach India by sea
Who is Vasco da Gama?
He argued that people are born with natural rights that can't be taken away
Who is John Locke?
This document established the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Giuseppe Garibaldi led the reunification in this country
What is Italy?
This rise of this class was linked to the growth of capitalism
What is the middle class?
Conference where European powers divided up Africa
What is the Berlin Conference?
The Central Powers
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire?
What is Bloody Sunday?
The Axis Powers
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
What is the Marshall Plan?
First explorer to circumnavigate the globe
Who is Magellan?
He emphasized the importance of religious toleration
Who is Voltaire?
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
He led the struggle for independence in Venezuela
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This migration fueled the growth of the cities
What is rural-to-urban?
This was one of the few African nations to successfully resist imperialism
What is Ethiopia?
The first major battle of the war
What is the Battle of the Marne?
The elected Parliament created as a result of the 1905 Revolution
What is the Duma?
Turning point of the war in Europe
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Soviet Union's military alliance with the Eastern bloc
This settled a dispute over new territories between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
He believed in a constitutional monarchy and the separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu?
This "reaction" marked the end of the Reign of Terror
What is the Thermidor Reaction?
D A I L Y D O U B L E
Year that many nationalist revolts failed in Europe
What is 1848?
Movement that sought to address the inequalities of the capitalist system
What is socialism?
The "jewel in the crown" of the British Empire
What is India?
This country suffered the most casualties in WWI?
What is Russia?
D A I L Y D O U B L E
Lenin's slogan for the revolution
What is "Peace, Land, Bread"?
Meeting of the "Big Three" that established plans for post-war Europe
What is the Yalta Conference?
United States' response to the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is a naval blockade?