National Revolutionary Movements
This Enlightenment idea influenced the American Revolution.
What is natural rights philosophy?
These inventions mechanized textile production during the Industrial Revolution.
What were the spinning jenny and the water frame?
This movement was characterized by European countries claiming land in Africa for resources.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This was Germany's plan to invade France through Belgium at the beginning of World War I.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This term describes when the US and the USSR supported opposing sides in another country without fighting each other directly.
What is a proxy war?
This social class in France led the revolution against the monarchy in 1789.
What was the Third Estate?
This exhibition held in Britain in 1851 showcased industrial achievements and encouraged innovation.
What was the Crystal Palace Exhibition?
This was a Belgian king who used brutal practices such as slavery, torture, and limb removal in his personal colony in the Congo.
Who was King Leopold II?
This innovation helped detect the Luftwaffe from Germany and protected civilians from bombings during World War II.
What is radar?
These two conferences revealed tensions between the US and the USSR and led to the Cold War.
What are the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences?
This was the leader of the Haitian Revolution who led enslaved people to successfully overthrow French colonial rule.
Who was Toussaint Louverture?
These canals improved transportation and trade during the Industrial era.
What are the Erie Canal, Suez Canal, and Panama Canal?
These were exclusive economic zones controlled by European countries and Japan in the late 19th century.
What are Spheres of Influence?
These two cities were destroyed by atomic bombs, leading to Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This resolution allowed the US to send troops and expand military involvement in South Vietnam during the Cold War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
These two leaders led the Latin American independence movements and successfully liberated South America from colonial rule.
Who were Simón de Bolívar and José de San Martín?
These factors caused tension between middle class and working class during the Industrial Revolution.
What were low wages, long working hours, poor working conditions, and living in company towns?
This rebellion in 1857 involved Indian soldiers rebelling against British East India Company rule.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
This was the turning point of the Asian Theater in World War II.
What is the Battle of Midway?
These countries were members of the Warsaw Pact.
What were the USSR, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania?
These were European powers that fought against Prussia and Britain during the Seven Years' War.
What are Austria, Russia, and France?
These were the major industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What are Liverpool, Manchester, and Chicago?
This European idea justified imperialism by claiming it was the duty of white people to civilize other societies.
What is the White Men's Burden?
These causes of World War I are commonly remembered by the acronym MAIN.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
These conflicts are examples of proxy wars during the Cold War.
What are the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Soviet-Afghan War?