Unit 2
What is the third estate?
This is the term given for the policy of taking over another country as a colony.
What is imperialism?
This leader's assassination is seen as the spark of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
In 1947, India gained its independence after 200 years of colonial rule by this country.
What is Britain?
What is genocide?
This Enlightenment thinker's ideas of the natural right to life, liberty, and property was an influence on the French Revolution
Who is John Locke?
The meeting where European powers met to divide up colonies in Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This type of warfare was most common during World War I. It led to military stalemates and high casualty rates.
This is a movement emphasizing the unity of Africans and people of African descent around the world. It encourages mutual cooperation to advance African countries.
This leader modernized, westernized, and secularized Turkey.
Who is Kemal Ataturk?
The name given to Napoleon Bonaparte's legal system, that went on to influence other European systems
What is the Napoleonic Code?
An unsuccessful, anti-colonial uprising against foreigners in China from 1899-1901. Led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
To avoid conflict after World War I, European countries used this policy towards rising dictators such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. It allowed them to do what they wanted without consequences.
What is appeasement?
Through this non-violent initiative, Mohandas Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British textiles and make cloth at home.
What is the Homespun Movement?
After the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini established this form of government.
What is a theocracy?
Olympe de Gouges gained infamy during the French Revolution for writing this 1791 response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen?
[I will accept Declaration of the Rights of Woman]
The Boer Wars were fought between the Boers and the British over territory and resources in this country.
What is South Africa?
This man helped lead the 1917 Revolution in Russia and became the first leader of the communist Soviet Union.
Who is Lenin?
This movement supports the existence of a Jewish national state.
What is Zionism?
What is Cambodia?
This formerly enslaved man led the successful uprising against French rule in Haiti.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverature?
Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling coined this term to describe the responsibility he felt white Europeans and Americans had to colonize other areas of the world.
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
The first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
This was Mao Zedong's failed attempt to quickly modernize and industrialize China. It led to a famine that killed an estimated 40 million people.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This was the main ethnic group targeted during the Rwandan Genocide.
Who are the Tutsi?