“Steam, Steel & Society” (Industrial Revolution)
This country industrialized first due to resources like coal and access to capital.
What is Great Britain?
This ideology justified imperialism by claiming survival of the fittest among nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
This European revolution in the late 18th century overthrew the monarchy, much bloodshed, and led to radical political change.
What is the French Revolution?
This event sparked World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This conflict between the U.S. and USSR was marked by tension but no direct war.
What is the Cold War?
This invention by James Watt improved steam engine efficiency.
What is the steam engine?
European powers competed for land in Africa in this event.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This revolution in Russia led to the rise of communism.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
This treaty ended World War I and punished Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This crisis nearly led to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Industrialization led to a shift from agrarian economies to this type of economic system.
What is a market-based/capitalist economy?
This country controlled the Congo under King Leopold II.
What is Belgium?
This thinker argued that class struggle would lead to revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
This alliance opposed the Axis powers in World War II.
What are the Allies?
The United States created this in response to counter the Soviet Union's expansion into outer space.
What is NASA?
This ideology argued that workers should control the means of production.
What is socialism (or communism)?
This was a rebellion in India related to animal fat on the gun cartridges as they feared the British were attempting to destory their religions and cultures.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
Latin American revolutions were often led by elites seeking independence from this empire.
What is Spain?
This strategy involved attacking civilians to break morale.
What is total war (or strategic bombing)?
This alliance was led by the United States.
What is NATO?
The emergence of factory-based production in Great Britain during the First Industrial Revolution both relied on and accelerated this earlier agricultural transformation, which increased population growth while simultaneously displacing rural laborers into urban industrial centers.
What is the Agricultural Revolution (or enclosure movement)?
Following the Spanish-American War, the U.S. decision to annex the ____________________ led to a violent conflict with nationalists, illustrating the contradiction between America’s promotion of democratic ideals and this imperial practice.
What is the Philippines?
What was the year in the mid 19th century of many revolutions in Europe?
What is 1848?
The harsh terms of Versailles contributed to the rise of this type of regime in Germany.
What is fascism?
The American diplomat and historian, suggested the policy of containment in the late 1940s to check Soviet expansionism.
Who is George F. Kennan?