Revolutions
Nationalist Leaders
Wars
Human Rights Violations
Vocabulary
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Source: The Way We Saw It: ..., Highsmith, Inc., 1998 from the NYS Global History and Geography Regents Exam, August 2002.
This drawing illustrates conditions that contributed primarily to the beginning of the
French Revolution
100
United Germany by a policy of blood and iron
Otto von Bismarck
100
4 MAIN causes are militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism ended with the Treaty of Versailles
World War I
100
Nuremberg Laws, ghettos, concentration camps, genocide
Holocaust
100
government policy where the state controls all means of production
communism
200
Toussaint L'Overture, Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hildago and Jose de San Martin are all associated with
Latin American Revolutions
200
Nationalist leader that tried to westernize Turkey and did away with traditional Islamic views
Kemal Ataturk
200
Indirect war between the super powers United States and Soviet Union. It was over communism and capitalism.
Cold War
200
Ukrainian forced famine, secret police, propaganda, collective farms
Josef Stalin
200
a stronger area takes over a weaker area for raw materials and markets to sell goods.
imperialism
300
New machinery made work faster and products cheaper. Some issues were child labor, poor working conditions and exploitation of the proletariat (working class)
Industrial Revolution
300
Haitian revolutionary leader fought against Napoleon's French Army for independence
Toussaint L'Overture
300
War between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was supported by the communist Soviets and South Korea was supported by non-communist Americans. Communism was separated at the 38th parallel.
Korean War
300
Genocide between the Hutus and the Tutsi's. Mass killing of the Hutu's
Rwandan Genocide
300
South African government policy of separating blacks and whites.
apartheid
400
Dropped out of the first World War due to poor weapons and military. Poor working conditions, communism executed the czar.
Russian Revolution
400
Led non-violent protests to rid India of British rule. Some examples are the Homespun Movement and the Salt March
Mohandas Gandhi
400
Started by Hitler's quest for world domination and invasion of Poland. Americans later joined. Turning point was D-day (liberation of France on the beaches of Normandy) ended with VJ Day (bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima)
World War II
400
Killing Fields, Cambodia, killing of all educated people, return to Year Zero
Pol Pot
400
"hands off government" the government should have minimal involvement with big business practices
laissez faire
500
A rebellion due to the undermining of Islamic law in Iran led by Ayatollah Khomeini
Iranian Revolution
500
African National Congress (ANC) leader. Fought against apartheid, jailed for 27 years and became first black president of South Africa in 1994
Nelson Mandela
500
arms race and space race
Cold War
500
Document created by the United Nations to preserve human dignities and rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
500
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy for restructuring the Soviet Union's economy
perestroika