War & Conflict
WW1 is an example of this term that refers to a form of global conflict that overtakes the entirety of participating nations.
What is Total War?
An authoritarian ideology present in historical leaders of Italy, Germany, and Spain.
What is Fascism?
A socio-political ideology that appeals to equality of the sexes.
What is Feminism?
Perhaps the most absolutely totalitarian dictator studied in this course, this leader appealed to Marxism, but his policies are typically denoted by a term referring to his name.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Fascist Prime Minister of Italy
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This geopolitical tension featured no declarations of war from participating nations.
What is the Cold War?
A socialist ideology utilized in nations such as Russia, Cuba, and China.
What is Marxism?
A theory that inaptly uses a pre-existing notion of evolution to justify racism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This system of economic, social, and political control emphasizes the separation of powers, multiple political parties, and representation of individual citizens in policy.
What is Liberal Democracy?
A French military general of average height.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The sinking of this UK ocean liner turned the tide of international opinion against Germany.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
Associated with thinkers such as John Locke, this ideology largely denotes a belief in freedom on the individual level.
What is Liberalism?
This phrase expresses the historical mindset that public and private lives are mutually exclusive.
What is Separate Spheres?
Have you sinned? Do you want to get rid of them without all that hard Catholic work? If you're willing to pay, this form of Catholic pardon would permit you to do just that.
What are Indulgences?
This European figure created a list of reforms that targeted the spirituality of Christian religion that also had many practical impacts on European life.
Who is Martin Luther?
Considered one of the most destructive wars in European history, this conflict largely occurred within the Holy Roman Empire.
What is the 30 Years War?
Countering ideas of rationality that emerged from the enlightenment, this intellectual/artistic movement encouraged the inclusion of emotionality in art and thought.
What is Romanticism?
An economic policy that only allowed minimum governmental interference in individuals' affairs.
What is Laissez-Faire?
In the hopes of maintain control and protection of Vritish agriculture, these laws were set on grain imports in the late 1700s-mid 1800s.
What are Corn Laws?
This historical figure is known for creating several progressive reforms, including the first welfare state.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Referred to by a title that denotes many historical conflicts, this particular case featured a violent confrontation of unarmed demonstrators and the Russian imperial guard.
What is Bloody Sunday?
Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem about empire, "The White Man's Burden", is exemplary of this ideology based on cultural and racial superiority.
What is Imperialism?
This athlete's participation in and success at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin undermined the racist ideology that Hitler was spreading throughout Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This term, which if translated means 'culture struggle', denoted exactly that between Bismarck's Prussian government and the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Kulturkampf?
This monarch came to power following the reign of "Bloody Mary".
Who is Elizabeth I?