Industrialization & Imperialism
This iconic communist thinker would lead the Russian Revolution and create the first nation dedicated to fulfilling the communist ideology.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
Due to its easily accessible coal deposits and its growing use of capitalist economic policies, this country would be the first to experience the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
The assassination of this heir to the Austria-Hungarian Empire is widely considered to be the immediate cause of the First World War.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What is the Atomic Bomb?
The General Secretary of the Soviet Union during the Great Depression, WWII, and the start of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This non-violent leader would ultimately lead India to gain its independence from the British Empire in 1947.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
Britain fought China in these mid-19th century conflicts to protect its illegal drug trade and force open Chinese markets.
What are the Opium Wars?
This ideology encouraged the widespread use of industrial economies to build up national arsenals in preparation for future conflict.
What is Militarism?
The systemic targeting, persecution, and extermination of millions of European Jews, among others, is widely known by this name.
What is the Holocaust?
Mao Zedong implemented this economic policy as an attempt to fully collectivize agriculture under government control and use the peasant class to fuel steel production to help industrialize China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This protest of British monopoly on salt was coordinated by Gandhi and involved tens of thousands of Indians to travel over 200 miles to make salt from the Indian Ocean
What is the Salt March?
This German philosopher who co-authored The Communist Manifesto in 1848, arguing that history is driven by class struggle.
Who is Karl Marx?
This brutal style of fighting on the Western Front forced soldiers to live and die in muddy ditches, leading to years of stalemate and millions of casualties.
What is Trench Warfare?
These three countries made up the most powerful forces of the Axis Powers.
Who are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The Space Race between the U.S. and the USSR was expedited by the Soviet Unions launch of this artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
This South African leader was instrumental in bringing a end to Apartheid laws.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This ideology misapplied Darwin's theory of natural selection to justify European imperialism and racial hierarchies in the 19th century.
What is Social Darwinism?
Rivalries over territories in Africa and Asia heightened tensions between Britain, France, and Germany in the decades before 1914, making this force one of the underlying causes of the Great War.
What is Imperialism?
What is the Soviet Union?
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Much of decolonization was fueled by this ideology that had been present since the American Revolution of the 18th century.
What is Nationalism?
This 1868 transformation in Japan ended feudal rule, restored imperial power, and launched a rapid program of industrialization and Westernization.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Soldiers from this British colony fought and died by the hundreds of thousands on WWI battlefields, yet were denied self-rule after the war — fueling a growing independence movement.
The rise of this Italian fascist would be the beginning of one of the most significant causes to the start of WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This proxy war would be the Soviet Union's equivalent of the Vietnam War. It will end in Soviet defeat and cost the USSR a significant amount of money and resources.
What is Afghanistan? (Or Soviet-Afghan War)
Who is Ho Chi Minh?