East Asia History
Wars between China and Britain in 1848.
Opium Wars
Name of war involving Hitler against the Allied Powers.
WWII
Largest desert in the world, in North Africa
Sahara
Today, this country in the Middle East is quite modern, and is the former Ottoman Empire.
name of India's independence leader during the 1900s.
Gandhi
Leader of communist China, taking over in 1949, with Great Leap Forward.
Transition from hand made factories to factories powered by coal and machine.
Industrialization
Meeting of European nations to divide Africa in 1884.
The Berlin Conference
This Islamic empire used to be the center of trade in the Middle East, fell at the end of WWI due to many different ethnic groups and nationalities within who each wanted their own nation.
The Ottoman Empire.
Walk along the beach, led by Gandhi
The Salt March
Deng Xiaoping policy to update China.
Four Modernizations
Revolution featuring enlightenment ideas and the Reign of Terror
Leader of civil disobedience to end apartheid in South Africa.
Leader and father of Turkey who Westernized the nation.
Ataturk
movement, led by Gandhi, to create clothes at home to boycott British clothing industry.
Homespun Movement
Transformation of Japan to becoming industrialized and westernized, in 1868.
Meiji Restoration
War involving the ideas of Karl Marx against the ideas of Adam Smith.
The Cold War
Movie showcasing modern conflict in Africa surrounding resources, rebel groups, and UN forces. Starring Leo.
Blood Diamond
Leader of Iran and created a theocracy in 1979.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Union of Muslim and Hindu soldiers to fight the British East India Company in 1857. Britain won.
Sepoy Mutiny
Japanese invasion of China in the early 1937.
Rape of Nanking
Policy of Gorbachev, opening trade between Soviet Russia and the United States, leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War.
Glasnost and/or Perestroika
Only African nation to resist imperialism.
Ethiopia.
International Organization of oil exporting nations.
OPEC
Gandhi's closest advisor and friend and first prime minister of India after