World War I
The MAIN causes of WW1. (M.A.I.N is an acronym)
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
This global event started in 1929 and was caused by.
What is the Great Depression and stock speculation?
France claimed this region that was the target of Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia, much to Ho Chi Minh's dismay.
What is Vietnam/Indo-China?
This was the nickname given to Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and China because of their economic development in the modern era.
What is the Asian Tigers?
When did the U.S. enter WW1?
1917
This political system appealed to extreme nationalism, glorified the military and armed struggle, and blamed problems on ethnic minorities.
What is fascism?
This contributed to the Soviet counteroffensive against Germany from 1941-1942.
What is Winter?
Coined by Winston Churchill. The term for the Soviet Union's wave of communism that swept through Eastern Europe; The Divide between East and West Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
This multi-national uprising began to spread across the Middle East in 2010.
What is the Arab Spring?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This is a 4 part question. All 4 parts must be answered to get points.
This figure from where was assassinated to start World War I.
The assassin was from this country and a member of this terrorist organization.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Austria-Hungary
What is Serbia and Black Hand
This was the main difference between fascism in Italy and fascism in Germany.
What is racial superiority?
The tide of the war in the Pacific turned when the United States defeated Japan in this battle in 1942. What strategy was formed after this battle and used by the U.S. to advance across the Pacific towards Japan?
What is the Battle of Midway? Island hopping.
Mao made two attempts to reform China, both of which were failures.
What is the Great Leap Forward and what is the Cultural Revolution?
Gorbachev used the following two policies to improve the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost and Perestroika?
The Big Four were represented from the following countries at the Paris Peace Conference.
What is the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy.
These major laws forbade the marriage between Jews and Gentiles, stripped Jews of their citizenship and unleashed a series of subsequent decrees that effectively pushed Jews to the margins of German society.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
This was the pretext given for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which was triggered by the staged "sabotage" of a Japanese railroad.
Bonus: Japan established this in Japan after their successful invasion.
What is the Mukden Incident?
What is a a puppet state?
This failed invasion ordered by JFK that almost lead to nuclear war in what became known as...
What is the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis?
This system tried to separate whites from blacks in South Africa...
AND was strongly opposed by this leader of the African National Congress.
What was Apartheid?
Who was Nelson Mandela?
This specifically stated that colonized people in Africa and Asia required "tutelage" from more "advanced" nations in order to survive.
Postwar Treaties/League of Nations?
These nationalist forces ruled much of China during the 1930's, but were later forced out by the CCP.
What is the Republic of China?
At this conference near the end of WW2, Stalin revealed his distrust for the allies and wish for a buffer between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
These two parallels divided communist North Korea from democratic South Korea and communist North Vietnam versus democratic South Vietnam.
What is the 38th and 17th parallel?
The partition of India created the following states belonging to which religious groups.
What is India, West Pakistan and East Pakistan and Hindus and Muslims?