LEADERS
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before helping end apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
This revolution began in 1789 and overthrew the Bourbon monarchy.
French Revolution
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition.
Capitalism
The Cold War was mainly a rivalry between these two nations.
The United States and The Soviet Union
This policy allowed European nations to build colonies and gain political and economic control over weaker regions.
Imperialism
This German leader used "blood and iron" to unify Germany.
Otto Von Bismarck
The slogan "Peace, Land, Bread" is associated with this revolution.
Russian Revolution
This economic system calls for collective ownership of the means of production.
Socialism
This wall divided East and West Berlin.
The Berlin Wall
This event marked the beginning of World War I.
Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferninand
This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This revolution led to the creation of the first communist state.
Russian Revolution
This document blamed Germany for World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This Chinese Communist leader launched the Cultural Revolution.
Mao Zedong
One major result of the French Revolution was the rise of this military leader who eventually became Emperor of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This policy of separating races existed in South Africa.
Apartheid
The U.S. policy of stopping the spread of communism was called this.
Containment
After World War II, the United States provided billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe through this program.
The Marshall Plan
This Indian leader promoted nonviolent resistance against British rule.
Ghandi
This revolution began when colonists in Saint-Domingue rose up against French rule and slavery, eventually creating the first independent Black republic.
Haitian Revolution
The genocide of six million Jews during World War II is known as this.
The Holocaust
This military alliance was led by the Soviet Union.
The Warsaw Pact
"Iron Curtain" was the term used by this British leader to describe the division of Europe after World War II.
Winston Churchill