Cause & Effect
Which development BEST explains why industrialized nations were able to dominate non-industrial regions?
What is access to advanced industrial technology and military power?
This idea, based on shared identity and the desire for self-rule, became a growing force in Latin American independence movements.
What is nationalism?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism to other countries.
What is containment?
This false theory was used to justify imperialism by claiming that stronger societies had the right to dominate weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
The continuing division of Korea best shows that containment succeeded in preventing this outcome.
What is the communist takeover of South Korea?
This Cold War strategy justified U.S. intervention in Korea and Vietnam because leaders feared communism would spread regionally.
What is the domino theory?
This earlier Atlantic Revolution inspired many independence movements in Latin America by spreading ideas about liberty, equality, and self-government.
What is the French Revolution?
A war in which superpowers support opposite sides without directly fighting each other is called this.
What is a proxy war?
This economic and political system calls for common ownership of property and the end of class divisions.
What is communism?
During the Cold War, both superpowers competed to build larger stockpiles of these powerful weapons.
What are nuclear weapons?
This Soviet policy caused millions of peasants to lose their land and contributed to famine in Ukraine.
What is collectivization?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was influenced by this idea that people can replace a government that fails to protect their rights.
What is the social contract?
This U.S. program gave economic aid to Western Europe to prevent the spread of communism after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This European country ruled India and treated it as the “crown jewel” of its empire.
What is Britain?
This campaign tried to rapidly increase China’s industrial and agricultural production but led to mass famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
According to the course reader, industrialization increased demand for these two things, helping fuel imperialism.
What are raw materials and markets?
This wall became a symbol of Cold War division between communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This term describes the buildup of weapons between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is the arms race?
Britain damaged India’s economy by flooding the colony with British-made cloth and weakening this local industry.
What is the Indian textile industry?
Stalin’s government is best described as this type of system because it used fear, propaganda, and repression to control society.
What is totalitarianism?
British rule hurt India’s economy by turning India into a market for British goods and limiting Indian control over its own resources. This caused India to become economically dependent on what? (or who)
What is Britain or British manufactured goods?
This competition showed that the Cold War was fought through science and technology as well as military power.
What is the Space Race?
Gandhi’s method of nonviolent resistance and mass civil disobedience was known by this term.
What is satyagraha?
Marx believed this economic system exploited workers and created inequality.
What is capitalism?
Stalin’s policies reveal that rapid industrial growth was prioritized over the well-being of this social group.
Who are peasants?