World War I
The systematic destruction of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks in the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
It is the anti-Semitic and ultra-nationalist movement that took control of Germany under Adolf Hitler.
What is Nazism?
The two superpowers that competed against each other during the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union and the United States?
A policy of seeking to expand one’s empire by taking over other country’s land.
What is imperialism?
The event that started World War I with the killing of an important figure from Austria-Hungary.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The international organization created after World War II to ensure lasting peace after six years of deadly conflict.
What is the United Nations?
The ideology that advocates for government-control of the economy and no private property.
What is communism?
A policy of building a strong, large, well-equipped military that is ready to be mobilized quickly
What is militarism?
An event in which Britain and Germany competed for access to nitrate in Chile.
What is the Battle of Caliche?
A foreign policy that favors limited involvement in the problems of other countries and global conflicts
What is isolationism?
The 1962 confrontation between the US and the USSR in Latin America which almost led to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
To take territory and add it to another country
What is annex?
It is the peace treaty that officially ended World War I and forced Germany to pay billions in dollars to the victorious Allies.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A nation’s use of the threat of nuclear warfare to achieve its diplomatic and foreign policy goals.
What is atomic diplomacy?
The American policy implemented by President Harry Truman to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
A set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual.
What is ideology?
A structure set up by the League of Nations after WW1, allowing the victorious powers to govern enemy colonies until the natives were fit to rule themselves.
What is the Mandate System?
The Chinese region Japan invaded in 1931, which served as one its first conquests.
What is Manchuria?
What were the two reform policies Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev implemented in the 1980s?
What is glasnost and perestroika?
A type of political system that allows a dictator to have complete authority in the government, which limits the individual liberties of the citizens of the nation.
What is authoritarianism?