Equality/Inequalities
Who was the leader of the revolution in Haiti?
Toussaint or Toussaint Louverture
What country in Asia was the main imperialist in that area? Bonus 200: Who did they colonize?
Japan! Went out to Manchuria, Korea, and China
What was the main raw good the was taken from the Congo and what was it used for in Europe?
Rubber -- for tires (mostly cars, but also bikes)
Where did Soviets put their missiles in order to threaten the United States of America?
Cuba
Who won the space race?
Soviets were the first to space, but the USA first to the moon
What was the process of cutting up and turning Africa into the modern day countries in the 1880s called?
The Scramble for Africa
Who were the two European colonizers of Haiti
We know most about the French, but the Spanish came before them
What was a main raw good that was farmed in Haiti?
Sugar cane (also will take coffee, but we didn't discuss this much)
How did the great depression of 1929 alter the political landscape of the 1930s and 40s?
Led to the growth of fascism across the European continent
What was and still is the only country in modern day Africa that was never successfully colonized?
Ethiopia!
What decade did most African nations begin to get their independence from their colonizers?
1960s
What were THREE motivations for the expansion of imperialism
raw goods, profit, wealth, power, nationalism, religion, racism all accepted
Who were the native peoples in Haiti? Same people Columbus met/same people that are native to Hispaniola
Tainos
Name three groups that were discriminated against by Nazis BESIDES Jews
LGBTQ+ folks, gypsies (Roma), physically and mentally disabled folks, African/black folks, political opponents
What is the name of the man who was assassinated in 1914 to begin WWI?
Franz Ferdinand
Name two leaders that led their country to independence. Two more for 300 extra
Jomo Kentaya (Kenya), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal), Sukarno (Indonesia)
Name three authoritarian leaders in the WWII era BESIDES Hitler
Mussolini, Franco, Stalin, Plaek, Hirohito, Mao, Kim Il-Sung
What is one reason that communism struggled in the soviet union?
Scarcity of farmable goods. Only potatoes or other root vegetables grow there, making it harder to feed the people
Name both Japanese cities that had Atomic Bombs dropped on them (Extra 300 if you remember the name of one of the bombs)
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
What was the 1868 proclamation to modernize Japan called?
Meiji Restoaration
List five country colonized by France OR Spain
France: Haiti, anywhere in western Africa, Vietnam
Spain: DR, PR, Mexico, all of central America; South America, Philippines
What were the trials called to hold Nazis accountable?
Nuremberg Trials
What technological advancement in WWI made the war more deadly?
Explain the Pakistan/India border. How were people divided up? On what identity lines?
Pakistan -- Muslim
India -- Hindu & Sikh
Name two satellite states of the soviet union (not part of USSR, but under their influence)