UNIT 5
A movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that focus on individualism, self-determination, and freedom
The Enlightenment
The term used for when one country asserts political or social power over another one for economic gain
Imperialism
Believed that the means of production should be controlled collectively and lead to equal society
Communism
The Conference that had Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet in 1945 to aid in reconstructing Europe after WWII
The Yalta Conference
A new means of transportation that stretched from that allowed to occur faster and quicker travel in Europe. This development created large steel, coal, and iron industries.
Railroad
Name two transportation advancements that happened during the Industrial Revolution
Railroads and Steamships
The time of global economic downturn that can be marked by the stock market crash and German reparations
The Great Depression
This social program caused the greatest famine in modern Chinese history
The Great Leap Forward
After the industrial revolution these calls for changes were warranted due to the conditions of factories and the increased role of women.
Social Reforms
The name of the loss of potato crops in Ireland that forced 3 million Irish to migrate in 4 years
The Great Famine/The Irish Potato Famine
The agreement signed by European nations after WWI that blamed Germany for the war and forced them to. demilitarize and pay reparations
Treaty of Versailles
The name of the social program that would open up government transparency in the USSR and give more freedom to the press
glasnost
Corporations that gain so much power that they are the sole company influencing a market
Monopoly
The terms proletariat (working class) and bourgeoisie (the capitalist class) were coined by this German philosopher
Karl Marx
Laws in Germany that targeted Jews and forced them into ghettos and barred them from specific jobs.
Nuremberg Laws
The side of Vietnam and Korea that the West backed militarily
The South
Inventor of the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
The war that broke out between China and Britain that forced the Chinese to trade with Britain. This war was over a drug crisis in China that was causing widespread addiction and death.
Opium War
The process of European and Asian countries leaving their colonies in Africa
decolonization
Nicknamed "Star Wars" this was the plan of Ronald Reagan to prevent nuclear missiles from hitting the United States
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Revolution in Latin American that was led by elites differing from other revolts led by those who were lower on the social hierarcy.
Creole Revolution
The conference among European powers that divided up Africa for spheres of influence in 1884. Famous for creating the "Scramble for Africa"
Berlin Conference
He was assassinated in 1914 and was the cause for Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The metaphorical line drawn between Eastern and Western Europe by Winston Churchill after WWII
The Iron Curtain
A change in society that was marked by a rapid growth in technology and social change in the 18th century
Industrial Revolution
The forced relocation of Native Americans by Congress in 1830 from the East to what is now modern day Oklahoma
Indian Removal Act
Intercepted message from Germany to Mexico that brought the US into WWI
Zimmermann Telegram
The man who sent missiles to Cuba in 1962 in response to America sending missiles to Turkey
Nikita Khrushchev