Global Conflicts
This 1914 war was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What was WW1?
This "Great Soul" used non-violent protest to help India win independence from Britain.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
The term described the boundary between democratic West Europe and communist East Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This canal was completed in 1914, finally connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
Webs of computers was invented in the late 20th century, changing how we share info.
What is the World Wide Web?
This German leader's invasion of Poland in 1939 started World War II.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This was the name of the system in South Africa that legally separated races until the 1990s.
What is the Apartheid?
This 1962 Crisis almost led to nuclear war when the USSR put missiles on a Caribbean island.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1930s economic crash saw banks fail and millions of Americans lose their jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
Revolution used new seeds and fertilizers to stop world hunger in the 1960s.
What is the Green revolution?
To get China to trade, the British began smuggling this illegal drug into Chinese ports.
What is the Opium Wars?
After WWII, many nations in Africa and Asia gained freedom, a process called this.
What is Decolonization?
This built in 1961 to stop people from fleeing East Germany into the West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Revolution in 1959 led by Fidel Castro made this island nation communist.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
Describes how the whole world is now connected by trade and culture.
What is Globalization?
This Japanese city was the first ever to be hit by an atomic bomb in 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
It was the movement to unite all African people into one community or nation.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Wars (like Korea or Vietnam) were fought by allies of the US and USSR, but not them directly.
This trade agreement removed taxes on goods between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Change refers to the long-term rise in Earth's temperature due to pollution.
What is Climate Change?
This international group was formed after WWII to prevent future wars and keep peace.
He was the first Black president of South Africa after being in prison for 27 years.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This was a contest between the US and USSR to be the first to reach the moon.
What is the space race?
Project was the secret US plan to build the first atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan project?
This is the world's most popular sport, showing how culture has spread globally.
What is soccer (football)?