Vocabulary
The love and devotion of ones country
Nationalism
Former Soviet Union President whose policies of glasnost and Persestroika helped reform the country.
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Industrial Revolution began here in the 1700's
Britain
During the English Revolution this document limited monarchy
Magna Carta
Liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Simon Bolivar
A policy of extending a nation's power through diplomacy or military force.
Imperialism
South African who was jailed for 27 years and became president
Nelson Mandela
The Potato Blight took place here in 1845
Ireland
gave equal rights to the men of France and created a fair system of taxation.
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Liberated Argentina and Chile
Jose De San Martin
A system of racial segregation and discrimination practiced in South Africa.
Apartheid
Indian lawyer who led the Salt March
Gandi
"The Jewel in the Crown"
India
This poem by Poem by Rudyard Kipling tackled racism
"A White Man's Burden"
Unified Italy
Guiseppe Garibaldi
A period of rapid technological advancement and economic growth, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Industrial Revolution
the ruler who came to power at the end of the French Revolution.
Napolean Bonaparte
Known as " The Dark Continent"
Africa
This Treaty gave Extraterritorial Rights to the British : British not subject to Chinese laws when in China
Treaty of Nanjing
Unified Germany
Otto Von Bismarck
The geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
The Cold War
Russian Czarina, westernized & modernized Russia, social Welfare programs, religious tolerance
Catherine The Great
The Opium Wars took place here
China
Lenin’s plan to fix economy
New Economic Policy (NEP)
He was known as the Mexican Robinhood
Pancho Villa