The Enlightenment
This philosopher created this book that sparked the movement that had people reading more and developing their own opinions and knowledge.
Who is Denis Diderot and what is the first encyclopedia?
This invention by James Watt greatly improved the efficiency of factories and transportation.
What is the steam engine?
In this system, local rulers remained in power but were controlled by imperial nations.
What is indirect imperialism?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 wrote this manifesto in 1848.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
This happened on June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip.
The method of procedure that consists of observing experiments, use reason to interpret results, then use mathematics to prove theories.
What is The Scientific Method.
This new social class grew during the Industrial Revolution and included factory owners and merchants.
What is the middle class?
This was the first of the unfair treaties that China was forced to agree to during the 1800s.
What is The Treaty of Nanking (1842)?
This ideology supports individual freedoms, democracy, and equal rights under the law.
What is liberalism?
This document issued by Germany gave Austria-Hungary full support against Serbia.
What is the 'Blank Cheque'?
Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau were all this during The Enlightenment.
What are philosophers?
This new social class grew during the Industrial Revolution and included factory owners and merchants.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
This 1884–1885 meeting divided Africa among European powers without African representation.
This ideology values tradition, order, and gradual change rather than rapid reform.
What is conservatism?
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and France, Britain, Russia?
In 1689 this gave Parliament stronger than the monarch.
What is The English Bill of Rights?
Early in the Industrial Revolution, factory workers began forming these organizations to gain better wages, working hours, and working conditions.
What are unions?
This 1857 uprising in India challenged British rule.
What is The Sepoy Rebellion?
This ideology believes the government should own and control major industries.
What is socialism?
This European region was known as the “powder keg of Europe” due to rising tensions.
What are The Balkan Islands?
This future US President largely drafted the US Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This economic system supports private ownership and competition in the marketplace.
What is capitalism?
This belief claimed that Europeans were superior and had a duty to “civilize” others.
What is 'The White Man's Burden'?
This ideology is characterized by extreme nationalism, authoritarian leadership, and suppression of opposition.
What is facism?
This German plan aimed to quickly defeat France before turning east to fight Russia.
What is The Schlieffen Plan?