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This term refers to a type of government in which leaders are elected by citizens and represent the people. First started in ancient Rome, before it became an empire
What is a Republic?
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This term refers to a group of people that join together to fight for better pay, shorter working hours, better safety conditions and overall a better work environment
What are unions?
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This term refers to idea that European countries could trade anywhere they wanted in China. It rejected the idea of spheres of influence. It is an example of imperialism in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
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This term refers to a person or group of people there had extreme nationalism. They believed in dictatorships, or allowing one person to be in control, like Hitler or Mussolini. They were often militaristic and glorified war and violence. They believed their ethnic group should dominate the weak
What is fascism?
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This term refers to the punishment of German and Japanese military officers for war crimes that happened during WW2
What is the Nuremberg Trials?
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This term refers to the economic system of the Middle Ages in which people were self-sufficient, there was little trade, and lots of warfare.
What is Manorialism or the Manor System?
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This term refers to when a "strong" country takes political, economic, social, and military control of another "weaker" region.
What is imperialism?
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This term refers to the time in Chinese history when the Chinese people tried to remove foreigners from China. Similar to the Sepoy Rebellion. Both were not successful
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
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This term refers to the philosophy that taught survival of the fittest and only the strong survive. It was used as a justification for racism between white Europeans and blacks or minorities
What is social darwinism?
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This term represents the peace-keeping organization that was created after WW2 to prevent future wars from happening
What is the United Nations?
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This term refers to the French word for social classes, before the French Revolution there were three of them and inequalities amongst them was one of the causes of the French Revolution
What are Estates?
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This event in the history of India, refers to the time when the native Indian people tried to remove foreigners, mostly the British, from India. Hindus were upset about cow fat being used and Muslims were upset about pig fat being used in the military, because it was against their religions
What is the Sepoy Rebellion or the Sepoy Mutiny?
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This term refers to the document that ended World War One. This document severely punished Germany; Germany had to take blame for the war, pay huge reparations, had its military reduced, and lost colonies. The League of Nations was created by this document. This document is usually blamed as a cause for World War 2
What is the Treaty of Versailles 1919
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This is the name of the government that Hitler replaced when he came to power in Germany. This democratic government could not maintain political, economic, or social stability in Germany between WWI and WW2
What is the Weimar Republic?
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This term refers to an event in the history of India during its independence movement. Gandhi walked to the ocean to protest unfair taxes by the British on this product, that gives you a clue to this term.......walk......product
What is the Salt March?
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This term refers to the meeting that took place after the French Revolution and the defeat of Napoleon, that redrew the boundaries of Europe and created a balance of power in Europe
What is the Congress of Vienna?
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This term refers to the time in global history when European countries competed for colonies in Africa. Looking for raw materials and markets. The Europeans carved out pieces of Africa with no regard for the traditional boundaries that were there, leading to problems after independence
What is the Scramble for Africa?
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This term refers to the people that supported Lenin and his communist ideas before and during the Russian Revolution
Who were the Bolsheviks?
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This term represents the time in global history when the Jewish people were the victims of genocide and human rights violations in Germany
What is the Holocaust?
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This term refers to the division of India into two countries; India and Pakistan. When India was given independence, tension between Muslims and Hindus caused the British to divide India into two parts. A great migration of people happened as a result of this division
What is the Partitioning of India?
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This term refers to the belief that a group of people, or ethnic group has the right to independence, freedom, and self-determination. It was one of the causes of the French Revolution and other revolutions. It can be a source of unity as well, as in Italy and Germany
What is nationalism?
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This term refers to a principle of capitalism economics that was created by Adam Smith and wrote about in his book called "The Wealth of Nations". It means "hands off" and states that governments should not interfere in economics and business
What is laissez-faire
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This term refers to the time in global history when the world faced severe economic troubles between WWI and WW2. It gave rise to new political groups like Nazism and Facism
What is the Great Depression?
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This term refers to the German style of military fighting in WW2. It means quick war or lightning war
What is blitzkrieg?
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This term refers to the time after WW2 when the U.S. and the Soviet Union had a "war of words" but no real fighting between the two countries. The two countries competed in the Space Race, the Olympics, and military
What is the Cold War?
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