Global Industrialization
This country used the Meiji Restoration to modernize its army, schools, and economy.
What is Japan?
The European countries divided Africa at this 1884–85 meeting, without consulting any Africans.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This treaty punished Germany after WWI and contributed to the rise of Hitler.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
These were the two main economic systems that competed during the Cold War.
What are communism and capitalism?
This British-controlled country saw its textile industry collapse as British cloth took over the market.
What is India?
This Ejisu queen led a resistance movement against the British in what is now Ghana.
Who is Yaa Asantewaa?
This acronym M.A.I.N. stands for...
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
This refers to the complete destruction of a group of people, and includes cases like the Holocaust and Rwanda.
This African leader used nonviolent protests to lead Ghana to independence, styled after this Indian nonviolent protester.
2 People
Who are Kwame Nkrumah and Mahatma Gandhi?
He led Egypt’s attempt at defensive modernization in the early 1800s.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This African nation ________________ was exploited by King Leopold for their resource of _____________.
What is the Congo and rubber?
Soldiers lived in muddy, dangerous conditions with constant fear of attack in this kind of WWI combat.
What is trench warfare?
This Cold War rival was likely a target of intimidation when the U.S. used atomic bombs on Japan.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This type of war, like in Korea or Vietnam, involved U.S. and USSR backing different sides without fighting each other directly.
What is a proxy war?
These wars began when China tried to stop British merchants from selling an addictive drug.
What are the Opium Wars?
Two different systems Europeans used to govern their colonies, one calling for more European administrators, and one using local leaders as figureheads for colonial control.
What are direct and indirect rule?
This worldwide event in the 1930s led to mass unemployment, inflation, and helped fascist leaders come to power, including Hitler, Mussolini, Franco.
What is the Great Depression?
In Rwanda, radio broadcasts that called Tutsis “cockroaches” are an example of this early stage of genocide, where victims are described as less than human.
What is dehumanization?
This Chinese movement, called _____________led by ___________ involved Red Guards attacking traditional culture and teachers.
What are the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong?
This is the term for how traditional industries in China and India declined under imperial pressure.
What is deindustrialization?
These specific inventions and ideas, helped Europeans conquer and justify control over colonies.
What are steamship, vaccines, Maxim gun, Social Darwinism, and the White Man’s Burden, etc?
Hitler’s political ideas included nationalism and racism, especially hatred of Jews, known by this term:
What is Anti-Semitism?
Symbolization in the Holocaust
What is the Yellow Star of David, "J" on Passports, and forced to change your middle name to Israel or Sara?
The reason the U.S. and USSR both supported or opposed colonial governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the Cold War
What is to expand their influence and stop the spread of the other’s ideology?