People
Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights.
John Locke
This event led to a new way of thinking/ a questioning spirit. It paved the way for political revolutions such as the French Revolution and Latin American Revolution.
The Enlightenment
Revolution led by Mao Zedong and carried out by the Red Guards to search out individuals who criticized the government or had special privileges (intellectuals).
Cultural Revolution
This empire fell at the end of WWI after lasting for 600 years. A new nation-Turkey was formed.
Ottoman Empire
A king or queen who has complete control over their citizens lives.
Absolute Monarch
Famous ruler of the Ottoman Empire who is responsible for expanding the empire and developing written laws for equal justice.
Suleiman the Great
Revolution involving Three Estates in which the Third Estate was disgruntled over taxes and land.
French Revolution
Part of the Latin American Revolution, led by Touissant L'Ouverture to secure independence for this nation from France.
Haitian Revolution - (Haiti; a.k.a Santo Domingo)
This is what sparked the outbreak of WWI.
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Exchange of ideas from one culture to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Leader of Cambodia who led a genocide-Khmer Rouge.
Pol Pot
Name the event in which Chinese nationalists attempted to remove foreigners and their influence from China.
Boxer Rebellion
Sparked by ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers, this revolution began in 1789. It is linked with the use of the guillotine, unfair taxation, the Reign of Terror, and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
French Revolution
There were four MAIN causes of WWI. What were they?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
Farming technique in which steps are cut out of the side of a mountain to make flat land for crops.
Terrace Farming
Monarch of France during the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI
This event started in 1917. It is associated with Bloody Sunday, the assassination of the Romanov Family (monarchy), and brought a country out of WWI.
Russian Revolution
This revolution began in Great Britain around 1750. It is associated with urbanization, the factory system and labor laws.
Industrial Revolution
Who were the Allied Powers during WWII?
Great Britain, France, Russia, and the US
Policy to remain neutral/not take sides.
non-alignment.
Independence leader of South Africa who used civil disobedience to end apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
This event was an attempt to end the importation of a mind-altering drug to China which damaged their culture and values.
Opium Wars
This person called for Mexico's independence during the Latin American Revolutions.
Father Hidalgo.
Who were the Axis Powers during WWII?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Stop the spread of communism.
Containment