Age of Imperialism
Name one of the 5 Motives of Imperialism.
Economic, Political, Religious, Exploratory, Ideological
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Name one Axis nation during WWII
Germany, Italy, Japan
This is the division between the communist and capitalist world (note: not an actual wall).
What is the Iron Curtain?
This term refers to the economic interdependence that has increased across the world after the Cold War.
What is Globalization?
This meeting divided Africa among European nations.
What was the Berlin Conference?
This event sparked World War I in 1914.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These two Japanese cities were hit with atomic bombs in 1945.
What were Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This individual attempted to save the USSR through reforms of Glasnost & Perestroika.
Who is Gorbachev?
Economic stagnation left this nation unable to compete with the west in the 1980s, eventually leading to its collapse in 1991.
What is the USSR?
This invention enabled European nations to coordinate distant colonial operations through morse code.
What is the telegraph?
This invention led to soldiers using trench warfare tactics in WW1.
What is the machine gun?
This invention allowed Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, though the nearest Japanese Airbase was 1000s of miles away.
What are Aircraft Carriers?
This figure challenged Apartheid in South Africa, allowing Black South Africans to gain rights they were often denied.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This nation attempted to create a powerful Pacific empire in the 30's & 40's, later becoming a powerful manufacturing nation due to globalization.
What is Japan?
Japan attempt to modernize and industrialize the nation.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Name one of the MAIN causes of WWI. (note: Not the assassination)
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationaltism
This is the name of the German strategy where planes and tanks attack before the defender has time to react.
What is blitzkrieg?
This policy under Mao Zedong saw much famine and starvation has he failed to increase crop yeilds.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This nation was created in 1948 due to the growing sense of Zionism and has had a prolong history of conflict with Palestinians.
What is Israel?
This belief claimed Europeans were superior that took inspiration from the ideas of evolution prevalent at the time.
What was social Darwinism?
This is the group that supported Czar Nicholas in the Russian Civil War.
Who were the White Army?
The name of the German government that Hitler eliminated due to its failures during the depression.
What is the Weimar Government?
This conference saw the allied powers agree to split Germany into occupational zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The spread of this disease in 2020 was made easier thanks to developments in the growth of globalization.
What is Covid-19?