Industrial Revolution/Revolutions/Unification
Imperialism and WWI
WWII
Cold War
Modern Day
100
Place where Industrial Revolution began
Great Britain
100
Process of ruling or controlling another country
Imperialism
100
Date of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
100
Created after WWII to prevent wars and establish peace
United Nations
100
First black president of South Africa after Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
200
Creator of laissez faire economics
Adam Smith
200
4 MAIN causes of WWI
Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism
200
Germanys invasion of this country was the official beginning of WWII
Poland
200
U.S. response to blockading road and rail ways to Berlin
Berlin Airlift
200
Terrorist group responsible for the bombing of the twin towers on September 11, 2001
Al Queda
300
First Latin American country to break ties from Europe
Haiti
300
Triple Entente
France Russia Great Britain
300
giving in to aggressive demands to maintain peace
appeasement
300
War in the 1950s where the U.S. sent troops to prevent the spread of Communism
Korean
300
War in the 1990s where Saddam Hussein attempted to invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia but was stopped by the United States
Persian Gulf War
400
Leader of German unification movement
Otto von Bismarck
400
Treaty that ended WWI and was a major cause for WWII
Treaty of Versailles
400
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
400
Failed raid on Cuba led by JFK to assassinate Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
400
Goal of the PLO
Palestinian independence
500
This Latin American country achieved independence with little fighting and resistance
Brazil
500
This decleration after WWI favored creating a Jewish state in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
500
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Tehran, Iran to discuss what to do with postwar Europe
Yalta
500
Communist alliance created in response to the formation of NATO
Warsaw Pact
500
Nuclear reactor explosion in Ukraine that showed the dangers of nuclear energy
Chernobyl
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