Industrial Revolution/Economic Theory
Imperialism & Global Patterns
Nationalism/World War I
Post-War Revolutions/Totalitarianism
World War II
Cold War
20th Century Trends
100
An American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
Who is Eli Whitney
100
Stronger nations extend their political, economic, and military, control over weaker territories. This is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism ?
100
Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914. (Marked the beginning of WW I)
Who is Archduke Ferdinand ?
100
The reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons.
What is Disarmament ?
100
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep peace.
What is Appeasement ?
100
This policy became the foundation of American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect. It implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine ?
100
Leader of ANC; first president of post-apartheid South Africa. (ANC - African National Congress)
Who is Nelson Mandela ?
200
A British engineer who developed a new process for making steel from iron in 1856.
Who is Henry Bessemer ?
200
Attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal. (Outside the auspice of the League of Nations)
What is the Washington Naval Conference ?
200
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
What is Genocide ?
200
An effort to prevent the economic deterioration of postwar Europe, expansion of communism, and stagnation of world trade.
What is the Marshall Plan ?
200
A policy of rigid segregation in South Africa.
What is Apartheid ?
300
An inventor and creative genius who received more than 1,000 patents for new inventions.
Who is Thomas Edison ?
300
A region in which a local ruler was left in place but expected to follow the advice of European advisers on issues such as trade or missionary activity.
What is Protectorate ?
300
A government policy dedicated to maintaining a strong military force with a willingness to use it aggressively to promote the country’s interest.
What is Militarism ?
300
A treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference on 13 December 1921.
What is the 4 Power Treaty ?
300
Were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.
What are the Neutrality Acts ?
300
A military alliance among several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union’s communist bloc.
What is NATO ?
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
300
Belief based on traditional, strict, and more literal interpretation of religious texts, most commonly associated with certain segments of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
What is Fundamentalism ?
400
He was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Who is Nikola Tesla ?
400
An agreement to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact ?
400
A policy by which belligerents during WW II could purchase goods from the United States as long as the recipients paid immediately in cash and assumed all risk in transportation using their own ships.
What is Cash & Carry ?
400
The Soviet Union’s military alliance with seven satellite nations in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact ?
400
It was implemented in 1994 to encourage trade between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. It reduced or eliminated tariffs on imports and exports creating a huge free-trade zone.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ?
500
The British naturalist who in 1859 published On the Origin of Species, in which he set forth the theory of evolution through natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin ?
500
The difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports.
What is Balance of Trade ?
500
A formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes. (Alliances are possibly the best known cause of World War I)
What are Alliances ?
500
Payments for war damage. It was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem.
What is German Reparations (Dawes Plan) ?
500
A program under which the United States supplied France, Great Britain, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
What is the Lend Lease Act ?
500
An idea that originated in the 1950s based on the belief that if one Asian country fell to communist rule then neighboring nations would also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory ?
500
The process by which national economies, politics, cultures, and societies become integrated with those of other nations around the world.
What is Globalization ?
600
The academic term for Women’s Right to Vote.
What is Women’s Suffrage ?
600
A severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States.
What is the Great Depression ?
600
June 6, 1944, the day of the Allies’ invasion of France.
What is D-Day / Normandy Invasion ?
600
This played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam. It was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
What is the Tet Offensive ?
600
International organization set up to facilitate global trade.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)
700
A market-based economic system in which individuals or corporations own and control factors of production.
What is Capitalism ?
700
It was a war fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba.
What is the Spanish American War ?
700
American policy by which stronger nations extend their political, economic, and military, control over weaker territories.
What is American Imperialism 
?
700
The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt ?
700
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.(Roosevelt/Churchill/ Stalin)
What is the Yalta Conference ?
700
This was arguably the 'hottest' point of the Cold War. It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis ?
700
A belief within Islam calling for an uprising or struggle against threats to Islam.
What is Jihad ?
800
A command-based economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the government and are operated by central planners who determine the type, quantity, price, and distribution of the goods that will be produced.
What is Communism ?
800
He was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century.
Who is Vladimir Lenin ?
800
Perhaps best known for President Truman's July 24, 1945 conversation with Stalin, during which time the President informed the Soviet leader that the United States had successfully detonated the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945.
What is the Potsdam Conference ?
800
A policy introduced in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s that promoted political openness and freedom of expression.
What is Glasnost ?
800
The use of violence, intimidation, and coercion to achieve an end, to gain publicity for a cause, or to disrupt the normal functioning of society.
What is Terrorism ?
900
A radical political theory that opposes all forms of government.
What is Anarchism ?
900
It temporarily gave the United States colonial control of the Philippines and ultimately brought about the final independence of the Philippines from foreign rule.
What is the Philippine American War ?
900
A feeling of extreme pride and loyalty citizens have for their country.
What is Nationalism ?
900
He was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. The Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.
Who is Joseph Stalin ?
900
A decorated World War II general who later became president of the United States.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower ?
900
Restructuring of government and the economy in the Soviet Union.
What is Perestroika ?
900
The body of nations formed to promote world peace.
What is the United Nations ?
1000
Economic system where the people as a whole, rather than private individuals, own all property and operate all businesses.
What is Socialism ?
1000
Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally.
What are Tariffs ?
1000
American general who led U.S. forces in the battles to defeat Japan.
Who is Douglas MacArthur ?
1000
A communist leader in Vietnam who fought the Japanese, fought the French, and battled U.S.-supported South Vietnam for control of the country.
Who is Ho Chi Minh ?
1000
Iraqi dictator; launched war against Iran and later Kuwait, was twice defeated by U.S.-led forces; executed for war crimes.
Who is Saddam Hussein ?