Industrial Revolution
The person who created communism
Who is Karl Marx
The professional military who was hired for wars outside of their own conflicts
What is the Prussian army
The two major reasons for Colonialism in the late 1800s
What are natural resources and external markets
The idea of controlling a colony though military control or replacing the existing government with your own
Nationalists in this small country felt threatened by Austria-Hungary
What is Serbia
The source of power the first factories relied on
What is water power (streams and rivers)
The major cause of the Balkan fragmentation
What is nationalism
The conflict between Dutch farmers and the British in southern Africa that led to the Dutch being driven north
What is the Boer War
The driving force that led European countries to seek out resources such as rubber, fossil fuels and ingredients for steel
What is the Industrial Revolution
The main reason the Schlieffen plan failed on the eastern front
What is Russian mobilization
The class of people who lived in tenements, and suffered from unsanitary working and living conditions
What is the urban/working/lower class
A rural town with little to no population that still sends people to Parliament
What is a rotten borough
Where early Europeans explored on the African continent before technological innovations
What is the coastline
The practice of leaving the existing colonial government but instating advisors or officials to influence them to your benefit
What is a protectorate
The devastating weapon used to cause panic in the trenches and was later universally banned
What is poison gas
The four factors which caused the Industrial Revolution to begin in Great Britain
What is natural resources, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship
Otto von Bismarck gave in to socialist demands for this reason
What is drawing workers away from socialism
The final incident that led to many sepoys to revolt against their British officers
What are cartridges greased with animal fats
This practice in colonial areas, similar to slavery, led to men being taken from their villages for extended periods of time
What is indentured servitude (or working far from home in imperial plantations and factories for cash)
The British liner sunk by a German U-boat, killing 128 Americans
What was the Lusitania
The idea that a person could achieve wealth and status through hard work
The person who was falsely accused of spying on France for Germany
Who is Alfred Dreyfus
The meeting of European superpowers in 1884 in Germany to discuss the scramble for Africa
What is the Berlin Conference
The idea that Western races were superior to all others and that imperialism was just nature's way improving the human species
What is Social Darwinism
Woodrow Wilson's idea to preserve lasting global peace, but was later rejected by Congress