Germany
China
Cuba
Iran
Important Historical Events
100

The name of the myth that said that the German military was undefeated in World War I and was undermined by domestic enemies back home

The Stab in the Back Legend
100

The process where foreign powers would take over lands in parts of China after the Opium Wars

Creating "spheres of influence"

100

The military officer turned president who was overthrown by Fidel Castro

Fulgencio Batista

100

The name for the religious leaders in Iran

The Ulama

100
The name for the conflict where Germany and Austria-Hungary fought against Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States

World War I

200

The name for the law that stripped Jewish people of their citizenship

The Nuremberg Race Laws
200

The two parties that split apart at the start of the Chinese Civil War after Chiang Kai-Shek took over the government

The Nationalists and the Communists

200

The conflicts (two) that gave Cuba its independence

The Cuban War for Independence and the Spanish American War

200

The shah who ruled over Iran for several decades and was a staunch U.S. ally and very repressive towards his own people until his overthrow in 1979

Mohammad Reza Shah

200

The name for the conflict where Germany, Italy, and Japan fought against Britain, France, the USSR, and later the United States

World War II

300

The economic problem facing the Weimar Republic that made currency nearly worthless

Hyper-inflation

300

The foreign power that complicated Chiang-Kai Shek's attempt to destroy the Chinese Communist Party

Japan

300

The movement that led the Cuban Revolution

M-26-7 or July 26 Movement

300

The colonel in the Iranian military that staged a coup to appoint himself shah. He wanted to modernize Iran and was later overthrown by the British and Soviet invasion during WWII

Reza Khan

300

The name for the conflict between the USSR and The United States over ideological and economic differences

The Cold War

400

The crime that was a new international legal concept created at the Nuremberg Trials

Crimes Against Humanity

400

The reasons for the failure of the Great Leap Forward

Farmers could not make steel and collectivized farms failed to produce enough food (or less farmers farming meant less food)

400

The major (successful) reform programs of Castro's government

Universal Healthcare and Literacy campaigns

400

The name for Mohammad Reza Shah's reforms that gave women more rights

The White Revolution

400
The name for the concept where a country uses its power to extract economic concessions and resources from another country using a mix of military power and coercive diplomacy

Imperialism

500
The part of the Weimar Constitution that allowed the president to rule by decree

Article 48

500

The reasons (two) for the violence of the Cultural Revolution

The Red Guard attacking any "anti-revolutionary" or "counter-revolutionary" people and no definition of a true communist

500

The reasons (two) that people fled Cuba during the Boat Lifts

Political persecution and economic recessions

500

The reasons (three) that Ayatollah Khomeini was critical of the shah's rule

Lack of Islamic values, too much westernization in Iran, too much U.S. influence in Iran

500

The name for the event where a government and society experiences structural change to the point where both are irrevocably changed from the previous form 

Revolution

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