Revolutions
This 18th-century revolution inspired all others by challenging monarchy and promoting democracy.
What is the American Revolution?
The British policy of controlling India through indirect rule was called what?
What is the Raj?
This country was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
MAIN is an acronym for the causes of WWI. What does MAIN stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
This US policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This Haitian leader led a successful slave revolt against French colonial rule.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
This 19th-century European conference divided African lands among colonial powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities is called what?
What is urbanization?
This policy of giving into Hitler’s early demands is called what?
What is appeasement?
This wall symbolized the division between communism and capitalism in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This revolution began due to issues between the Three Estates.
What is the French Revolution?
The Sepoy Rebellion occurred in this British colony.
What is India?
What powered most early machines during the Industrial Revolution?
What is coal?
The US dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Gandhi used this nonviolent tactic to push for Indian independence.
What is civil disobedience?
Enlightenment ideas, such as liberty and natural rights, most influenced which type of movement?
What are political revolutions?
European imperialists used this concept to justify taking over less developed regions.
What is the "White Man’s Burden"?
Poor factory conditions led to the rise of what group?
What are labor unions?
This 1960s conflict was part of the US effort to contain communism in Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
The Cold War was a global rivalry between which two nations?
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
Name two causes of Latin American revolutions in the early 1800s.
What are social inequality and colonial rule?
Name two countries that were part of the “Scramble for Africa" and the places they colonized.
What are Britain and France? (or Germany, Belgium, etc.)
Britain > Kenya
France > Algeria
Germany > Rwanda
Belgium > Congo
Karl Marx believed industrial capitalism would lead to this type of society.
What is a classless/communist society?
This post-WWII plan helped rebuild Europe and prevent communism from spreading.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This African system of legal racial separation ended in the 1990s
What is apartheid?