Guess the Enduring Issues
This enduring issue involves the ongoing fight for civil liberties and equal treatment under the law.
What are Human Rights/Human Rights Violation?
This 1962 Cold War event nearly led to nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This period saw rapid industrialization and westernization, transforming Japan into a world power.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This major revolution was fueled by inequality, financial crisis, and calls for political reform.
What is the French Revolution?
This river valley civilization was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This enduring issue reflects tension between individual freedoms and the needs of society.
What is conflict?
This Argentine leader gained support through his populist policies and charismatic appeal in the 1940s.
Who is Juan Peron?
What is Ghana?
This philosopher and revolutionary co-authored a political manifesto calling for proletarian revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
This code, created by a Babylonian king, is one of the earliest written legal systems.
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
This issue explores how advancements like the printing press or the internet have affected human life.
What is the impact of technology?
This Chilian General gained power through a military coup that overthrew the government.
After the Civil War in China, this leader enacted planned economies and cultural revolutions, remaking China into a communist country.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This 19th-century diplomatic event redrew the map of Europe to prevent future revolutions after Napoleon's defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This issue deals with how the arrival of foreign powers altered native societies and cultures.
What is impact of imperialism?
This American intelligence organization was involved in numerous coups in Latin America during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
What is the CIA???
This early 20th-century Turkish leader sought to secularize and modernize his country.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
This 17th-century economic theory held that a nation's strength was based on its stockpile of gold and favorable balance of trade.
What is Mercantilism?
This trade route connected China to the Mediterranean and was crucial for cultural diffusion.
What is cultural diffusion?
This issue addresses how nations rely on each other economically, especially through imports and exports.
What is interconnectivity/interdependence?
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
This 1979 revolution led to a theocratic regime in this country and damaged relations with the United States when the embassy was attacked and hostages were taken.
What is Iran? (The Iranian Revolution).
This 18th-century monarch was considered an “Enlightened Absolutist” for modernizing reforms in Prussia.
Who is Frederick the Great?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized respect for family, elders, and social harmony through education.
What is Confucianism?