Individuals in History
Which South African leader became president after being imprisoned for 27 years?
Nelson Mandela
Simon Bolivar, and Bernardo O’Higgins were Latin American leaders of:
Independence movements
The deliberate and systematic killing of a national, racial, political, or cultural group, such as the Holocaust in WWII, is known as:
Genocide
What policy of separating races was formerly used in South Africa?
Apartheid
Name the historical period of time in which European empires journeyed to new places and spread their influence to Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Age of Exploration or Age of Discovery
What method of resistance/protest did Gandhi use to achieve Indian independence?
Nonviolent resistance/civil disobedience
When Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, he was influenced by which political idea?
Communism
Name of the prison camps that Joseph Stalin built
Gulags
Word for policy of forcing education upon youth and brainwashing them
Indoctrination
Mr. C's favorite movie
The Dark Knight
Blood and Iron
Schlieffen plan
Otto Von Bismarck
Who led the Chinese Communist Revolution of the late 1940's to establish the People's Republic of China?
Mao Zedong
Removing education, banning media, and maintaining absolute control are qualities of this kind of government
Totalitarianism
List 3 Enduring Issues
Power, Conflict, human rights violations, scarcity, etc.
Name of Assasin and his target in what led to WW1
Gavrillo Princep/Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Which famous Russian Tsar modernized Russia and implemented westernization policies
Peter the Great
The Communist ideas of which revolutionary political writer of the 1800's later influenced the Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions?
Karl Marx
The name of Pol Pots troops who sought to kill the educated among others
Khmer Rouge
What does it mean when one country places sanctions on another country?
Enacting a penalty for disobedience
British control over South Africa, French control over Indochina, and Spanish control over Mexico are examples of:
Imperialism
Which Bolshevik Revolutionary gradually gained power in the years following Lenin's death and eventually went on to become the leader of the former Soviet Union (USSR)?
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Haitian revolution
Toussaint Louverture
It can be argued that throughout history two major social groups/populations have suffered the most human rights violations. Name one of them.
The poor and women
What term, similar to apartheid, describes the policy of racial separation previously used in the United States?
Segregation
After 1880, European nations sought colonies in Africa primarily because the Europeans were searching for:
Raw materials/natural resources and new markets