Enlightenment & Revolution
Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws, arguing for the separation of powers?
Who is Montesquieu?
Which Indian leader used civil disobedience to resist British imperial rule?
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
What event in 1914 triggered the start of World War I?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What is an economic system where individuals own businesses and property, and goods are produced for profit in a free market?
What is capitalism?
What was the U.S. strategy to stop the spread of communism?
What is containment?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in natural rights: life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This person became the president of South Africa in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Which treaty ended World War I and blamed Germany for the war?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is the system where the government controls all property and businesses, aiming to create a classless society with equal wealth and no private ownership?
What is communism?
This 1950–1953 conflict was the first “hot war” of the Cold War, fought between communist and non-communist forces in East Asia.
What is the Korean War?
Which Enlightenment idea most influenced the U.S. Constitution’s three-branch government system?
What is the separation of powers?
What addictive product did the British sell in China?
What is opium?
This country was invaded by Germany on September 1, 1939, starting World War II.
What is Poland?
Which Russian leader was most influenced by communism and led the Bolshevik Revolution?
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This organization, formed in 1949, was a military alliance of the United States and Western European countries.
What is NATO?
This king was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution.
Who was King Louis XVI?
This system of racial segregation in South Africa, which lasted until the 1990s, denied basic rights to the Black majority and sparked global resistance.
What is apartheid?
This event on December 7, 1941, led the United States to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Soviet leader created a totalitarian state in the USSR through purges and strict control.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
In which country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979, leading to a 10-year guerrilla war?
What is Afghanistan?
Which revolutionary document was influenced by Enlightenment ideas and declared the rights of citizens in France?
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
What was the British monopoly Gandhi protested during a long march?
What is the term for building up armies and weapons in preparation for war?
What is militarism?
What is the term for giving into aggressive demands to avoid conflict?
What is appeasement?
This was the Soviet Union’s military alliance formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?