This terrorist attack in the United States was one of the events that led the US to invade Iraq - they were concerned that another attack could occur.
What is 9/11?
100
Economic system in which private citizens own property and businesses and use them to generate profits, which they can keep.
What is capitalism?
100
This system allowed for cheaper and faster production of goods.
What is the factory system?
100
The Arab Spring revolutions began in this country when a young fruit seller set himself on fire in a protest against the corrupt government.
What is Tunisia?
100
Economic system in which goods and services are owned by the collective and operated for the good of all citizens.
What is communism?
200
He was the leader of Iraq who launched attacks against his own citizens and against neighboring countries. The US wanted to remove him from power.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
Type of government the French initially wanted - it would be led by the king, whose power would be limited and shared with a legislative body.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
200
To protect themselves against exploitation by their employers, industrial workers formed these, which used collective bargaining to gain rights.
What are labor unions?
200
The civil war in this country continues today, with revolutionaries fighting to take down the oppressive Assad regime.
What is Syria?
200
Psychological theory that explains human motivation through a series of five steps.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
300
The United States was told that Iraq had these, which they were concerned could be used the against the US or their allies. It turned out they did not have them.
What is weapons of mass destruction?
300
The shift from people living on farms to living in cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
300
Russia and Serbia were allies during World War I because their people shared this characteristic.
What is they were slavic?
300
The revolution in this country was quashed by the government, which was aided by the much stronger Saudi Arabia.
What is Bahrain?
300
Germany's capital city was divided into these two cities after World War II.
What is East Berlin and West Berlin?
400
This conflict, in which the US had previously tried to remove Hussein from power and failed, led them to want to start the Iraq War to try again and finish the job.
What is 1991 Gulf War?
400
Term for the meeting of the three estates in France, which Louis XVI called because he wanted to tax the nobility. This led to the 3rd estate forming the national assembly.
What is the estates-general?
400
Term for Lenin's plan for the Russian economy designed to ease peasant suffering and create a transition to a centralized economy.
What is New Economic Policy?
400
The leader of this Arab Spring country was killed when NATO and rebel troops attacked a convoy during the country's civil war.
What is Libya?
400
The term for the bottom 4 needs on Maslow's Hierarchy - the ones that will motivate people when they are unmet.
What are deficiency needs?
500
One goal of the invasion of Iraq was this - to re-build Iraq into a stable democratic country that could serve as an example for the region to hopefully get other countries to become democracies.
What is nation-building?
500
Leader of the Provisional Government who tried to make improvements to Russia before the Bolsheviks removed him from power.
What is Alexander Kerensky?
500
Experiment designed by psychologists to test a child's self-control, believed to be a predictor of future success.
What is the marshmallow test?
500
Hub of the revolution in Cairo, Egypt - name means "Liberation Square"
What is Tahrir Square?
500
The top tier on Maslow's Hierarchy is known as this kind of need - in order to consider pursuing this level, all deficiency needs must be met.