a system in which a country rules other countries, sometimes having used force to get power over them.
What is imperialism?
The beaches of Normandy, France.
Where was the allied invasion that paved the way for Allied victory in WWII?
Who developed the concept of "survival of the fittest"?
Who is Charles Darwin?
Name three causes of World War I.
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Which philosophical movement served as a primary influence for the American and French Revolutions?
What is the enlightenment?
A rebellion waged by Indian soldiers against the rule of the British East India Company in 1857.
What was the Sepoy Rebellion?
Name of the territory in which Hitler invaded that led the start of World War II.
What is Poland?
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Who is Stalin?
Series of Wars between China and Great Britain 1839-1842
What were the Opium Wars?
This document was written by the National Assembly in 1789 during the French Revolution
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Economic/political theory based on idea that society in constant conflict between the bourgeoisie (the ruling capitalist class) and the proletariat (working class)
What is marxism?
Traders from which nation introduced opium from India to China?
What is Britain
In the early 1800s, which revolutionary Latin American figure sought to create a United States of Latin America?
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The Zulus fought against the colonizing British from 1879-1877 in this part of the world.
What is South Africa?
This was one effect of the Industrial Revolution
What are poor working conditions, urbanization, pollution?
A 1899-1901 rebellion that took place in China against the Qing Dynasty in reaction to western and foreign influence
What is the Boxer Rebellion
Founder and First President of the Turkish Republic, made reforms to modernize Turkey.
Who is Kemal Attaturk?
This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years.
What is the Cold War
This social class grew larger as a result of the Industrial Revolution
What is the Middle Class?
International organization founded after WWI to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join.
What is the League of Nations?
Successful military leader who rose to become leader of France after the French Revolution, led France in series of war and conquered much of Europe.
Who is Napoleon?
This Revolution (1940s-1960s) led to the increase production of crops (food) around the world due to the new technological advances such as new farming techniques and the use chemical fertilizers.
What is the Green Revolution?