The World in 1750's
Age of Revolutions
1800's
World Wars
Cold War
Current Events
100
A period of time where people began to use logic and reasoning to challenge old ways of thinking.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This social hierarchy dominated France before the revolution.
What is the estate system?
100
A time of incredible technological growth and advancement in Europe beginning in England.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
Who was assassinated in Serbia, leading to the outbreak of World War 1?
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?
100
This weapon was on everyone's minds during the Cold War.
What are nuclear weapons?
100
This issue is more than just weather; it affects the future of all life on the entire planet!
What is climate change (or global warming)?
200
John Locke believed that all people have _________________ (Life, Liberty, and Property) and these should be protected by the government.
What are Natural Rights?
200
During this stage of the French Revolution, thousands of innocent French citizens were executed by a radical revolutionary government led by Maximillien Robbespierre.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
A process where more people migrate to cities looking for work in factories, and in the end cities end up growing significantly.
What is urbanization?
200
This wartime tactic for fighting battles AND this weapon became symbols for the World War 1.
(There are two answers here.)
___________ AND ______________.
Trench Warfare
AND
Chemical Weapons
200
The two global superpowers and their competing ideologies in the Cold War.
The United States (capitalism/democracy)
The Soviet Union (communism/authoritarianism)
200
In the 1990's, there was extreme ethnic violence between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
300
After over a century of civil war, Japan finally reached a point of peace after the ________________ was established.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate
300
I led the Haitian Revolution to free the islands slaves and build a new nation based on enlightenment ideals.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
300
I unified all of Germany through a sense of nationalism and my "Blood and Iron" policy.
Who is Otto Von Bismarck?
300
Why did World War 1 start?
Hint: M.A.N.I.A
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
300
The US policy that sought to stop the spread of communism outside of Russia's borders.
What is containment?
300
In the 1970s, after the U.S.-backed Shah was ousted, Iran became an oppressive theocratic Islamic state led by Ayatollah Khomeini.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
400
This system kept the Daimyo in check during the Edo Period of Japan.
What is the Sankin Kotai system (or hostage system)
400
I led the Latin American revolutions and wanted to unify all of South America!
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
At this meeting, European powers met in Germany to discuss/negotiate who would colonize each section of the African continent.
What is the Berlin Conference?
400
This new political ideology became very popular in Europe following the Great Depression, when leaders began to promise convenient solutions and pin blame on certain groups.
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler became the icons of this ideology.
What is fascism?
400
When superpowers sponsor smaller wars in order to avoid direct conflict. Examples include the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
What are proxy wars?
400
Vladimir Putin desperately wants to keep NATO away from the borders of Russia, prompting this military operation, which still persists today.
What is the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Russo-Ukrainian War?
500
This organization held an intellectual monopoly over Europe and granted the authority to rule to Kings and Queens.
What is the Catholic Church?
500
As Napoleon waged war through Europe, he and his armies sang songs of praise for the revolution that would make the French Republic. This celebration of French history and identity began to inspire similar feelings throughout the rest of Europe. What is this feeling of pride?
What is nationalism?
500
Explain why Europeans wanted to colonize the African continent.
1) They wanted resources to feed industrialization
2) Nationalism meant that having more colonies was better. Also connects to competition
3) the "White Man's Burden"
500
This international organization was formed after WW2 to promote peace and cooperation among nations of the world.
What is the United Nations?
500
What is the MAD doctrine, and what does it mean?
Mutually Assured Destruction.
The idea that any violent action received would be met with equal or greater violence. A spiral where in the end, both parties have the capability and willingness to destroy the other at the same time.
500
Increased globalization and the booming tech industry have created a huge market for this mineral mined in the Congo. This operation also highlights severe human rights abuses happening within these mines involving children.
What are Cobalt mines in the Congo?
Cobalt?
700
Name all 6 Enlightenment philosophers we have studied.
John Locke
Voltaire
MAry Wollstonecraft Godwin
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Rousseau
700
What caused the French Revolution to happen?
Hint: D.I.M.E
Debt
Inequality (Estate System)
Monarchy/Mismanagement
Enlightenment
700
Why did the Boxer Rebellion happen?
They wanted to expel foreign influences in China after being colonized by Western powers.
700
What years did World War 1 and World War 2 happen?
1914-1918
1937-1945 (Japan invades China) OR 1939-1945 (Hitler invades Poland).
700
Who am I?
My policies of Glasnost and Perestroika (relaxing of Soviet authoritarian rule) eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
700
What does H.O.M.E stand for in a "HOME" table?
Historical context
Outside information
Main idea
Enduring issues