"We survived the Great War"
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.
The Opium Wars
The leader of the Mongolian Kingdom beginning 1206 who began a conquest to take over parts of China and Persia
Genghis Khan
This Andean empire relied on a labor tax system called the mit’a rather than a traditional currency-based economy, and built a terraced farming system to farm in the mountains
Incan Empire
A movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that focus on individualism, self-determination, and freedom
The Enlightenment
The military alliance between the USA and its allies
NATO
The agreement signed by European nations after WWI that blamed Germany for the war and forced them to. demilitarize and pay reparations
The Treaty of Versailles
The leader of Vietnam's independence movement
Ho Chi Minh
This West African empire became wealthy through trans-Saharan trade and is famously associated with Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mali Empire
A political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
Meiji Restoration
The metaphorical line drawn between Eastern and Western Europe by Winston Churchill after WWII
The Iron Curtain
A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East to spread Christianity from 1095 to the 1200s
The Crusades
Emperor in the Mughal Empire in 1556 who expanded the empire through military and administrative achievements that was tolerant of all religions
Akbar the Great
Dynasty in China in the 15th century that limited Chinese trade for the dissolution of foreign influence
Ming Dynasty
Beginning with Martin Luther's 95 theses, this religious movement led to the rise of Protestantism
Protestant Reformation
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism and was applied in places like Korea and Vietnam.
Containment
This policy, agreed upon by European leaders in 1938, allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to avoid war.
Appeasement
King of France from 1643-1715 who developed the "divine right" argument for their rule and ruled as essentially a dictator
Louis XIV
This empire used a merit-based bureaucracy and civil service exams based on Confucian teachings.
Song Dynasty in China
The name of the Haitian figure who responded to France's Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, kick starting the Haitian revolution
Toussant L'ouverture
This social program caused the greatest famine in modern Chinese history
The Great Leap Forward
The man who sent missiles to Cuba in 1962 in response to America sending missiles to Turkey
Nikita Khrushchev
This ruler established a brutal regime in the Belgian Congo, where forced labor quotas for rubber extraction led to millions of deaths.
King Leopold the II
This empire’s military success relied heavily on gunpowder weapons and a devshirme system that recruited Christian boys into elite service.
The Ottoman Empire
A former prison in Paris that symbolized the abuses of the French monarchy that was stormed by a crowd in 1789 as part of the French Revolution
The Bastille
The name of the social program that would open up government transparency in the USSR and give more freedom to the press
Glasnost