Vocab
Style of warfare used by the Nazis in WW2
Blitzkrieg
Fought for women's rights during the Enlgihtenment
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mustached leader of Russia during WW2
Stalin
The Iron Curtain divided Europe based on what?
Communist and non-communist countries
Style of warfare fought in WW1
Trench
Monarch who has total control because God says so
Absolute monarch/absolutism
Communist China leader known for the Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong
Leader of the Bolshevik party, takes power from Czar Nicholas II
Lenin
Wars fought during this time period (think Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan)
Proxy Wars
Phase of the French Revolution where heads get chopped off
Reign of Terror
People moving from rural areas to cities
Urbanization
Natural rights guy during the Enlightenment
John Locke
Indian leader who practiced non-violent protest against British rule
Gandhi
Final leader of the USSR
Gorbachev
Treaty that ends WW1 (and heavily punishes Germany)
Treaty of Versailles
Period of lessening tensions during the Cold War
Detente
Crowned himself Emperor of France and then conquered most of Europe
Napoleon
Communist leader of Cambodia, head of the Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot
Alliances made during the Cold War period (Both)
NATO & Warsaw Pact
Unsuccessful rebellion in India over oppressive British rule and the East India Trading Company
Sepoy Rebellion
Legal segregation in South Africa
Apartheid
First black president of South Africa. Fought to end system of legal segregation.
Nelson Mandela
Communist leader of Vietnam, leader of the Viet Cong
Ho Chi Minh
Policies Gorbachev puts in place to try and save USSR (doesn't work)
Perestrokia or Glasnost
Trial of high ranking Nazis after WW2
Nuremberg Trials