Revolutions
This prison was stormed at the beginning of the revolution
Bastille
This treaty ends WWI
The Treaty of Versailles
He was PM of Britain during most of the war.
Churchill
In 1917, this man led a series of revolts against Tsar Nicholas II.
Lenin
The Vietnam War vs the USA is an example of what type of war?
Proxy War
The leader of the Committee of Public Safety, declares that terror will be the "order of the day" for the revolutionary government.
Robespierre
These countries were part of the Triple Entente alliance during WWI
Britain, France, Russia
This is an international organization which included all of the victorious allies, whose primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes after WWII
UN
Mao’s attempt to rapidly transform China into a modern socialist industrial power.
The Great Leap Forward
A new type of bureaucrat in Western Europe after WWII, intensely trained in engineering or economics and devoted to the power of national planning.
Technocrat
This occurred in China between 1965 and 1976, it included Mao targeting rivals using mass mobilization of students and the persecution of teachers, professors, and scientists.
Cultural Revolution
One of the main results of the Race to the Sea was...
a line of trenches that extended throughout much of northern Belgium and France.
What was one of the main objectives for the Axis powers in Northern Africa during WWII?
Suez Canal
The Soviet Union and its Eastern European Satellite states form an organization to balance the formation of NATO by Western powers.
Warsaw Pact
He helps liberate Ghana, mostly through negotiation and relatively peacefully
Nkrumah
In Sudan, these revolutionaries were motivated by rejecting Western customs and Christianity, which were tied to imperialism
Mahdists
_______ says he will support Austria in anything that they do - even if it means going to war with Russia (which means going to war with France and Britain). This becomes known as the “Blank Cheque”
Kaiser Wilhelm
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed between which two countries?
Germany and the USSR
Mao invited criticism from intellectuals in 1956/57
The 100 Flowers Campaign
These two men lead a successful communist revolution in Cuba
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
This man becomes a General during the uprising in Haiti, he's an exceptional military organizer and great at diplomacy too.
Louverture
The members of the Central Powers during WWI.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Bulgaria
Stalin moved industry over what mountain range during WWII?
Urals
He introduces Glasnost and Perestroika in the USSR, and is the last leader of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
Group responsible for the genocide in Cambodia
Khmer Rouge