Early 1900s +
World War I
World War I
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
Centralized system that exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.
What is Totalitarianism?
Centralized, authoritarian government that glorifies the state over the individual, is destructive to basic human rights, and is rooted in extreme nationalism.
What is Fascism?
US theory that stated, if one country would fall to Communism then they all would.
What is Domino Theory?
Large business organizations operating in a number of different national economies such as Nestle or McDonald's.
What is trans/multinational corporation?
This English philosopher argued for the natural rights of people and argued that governments that fail to protect these natural rights can be replaced (read: overthrown).
Who is John Locke?
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
What is total war?
Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy that aimed at improving heavy industry and farm output, but resulted in famine.
What are Five Year Plans?
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This 1947 plan proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Agricultural revolution of the mid-20th century that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation and helped to support rising populations.
What is the Green Revolution?
This 1884 meeting between European nations sought to discuss rules for peaceful division of resources and lands in Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
WWI alliance of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US (1917)
Who are the Allied Powers?
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
What is the League of Nations?
What is Lebensraum or living space?
After gaining independence from Great Britain in 1947, one country was separated into these two through partition. It led to conflict as well as population displacement and resettlement.
What are India and Pakistan?
Indian version of the film industry, centered in Mumbai that is an example of globalized culture where the West influenced South Asia which now influences the world.
What is Bollywood?
Identify one way in which land based empires collected taxes during the period of 1450-1750.
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This document's “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A series of reforms and deficit spending enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
U.S. Marines who developed and utilized a special code using their indigenous language to transmit sensitive information during World War II.
Who are the (Navajo) Code Talkers?
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
A society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods but instead on the production of ideas, information, and high skill levels.
What is a knowledge economy?
This type of Dutch trading ship allowed for greater profit due to cheaper building costs, large cargo spaces, and reduced crew size.
What are fluyts?
Far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that lead the October Revolution of 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I.
What is the Mandate System?
Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Agreement?
Economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962 that aimed to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Founded in 1995, a global institution created to promote international trade and to settle international trade disputes
What is the World Trade Organization?
This type of forced labor in Spanish colonies involved conquistadors using the labor of native peoples in exchange for "protection".
What is the encomienda system?