Post Nap Europe
This South American leader, known as “The Liberator,” helped several countries gain independence from Spanish rule in the early 1800s.
Simon Bolivar
This organization, founded in 1844, sought to improve the lives of young men by providing housing, recreation, education, and moral guidance.
YMCA
This policy involves a powerful nation extending its control over weaker territories through political, economic, or military means.
Imperialism
This Russian mystic gained influence over Tsar Nicholas II's family due to his apparent ability to help the tsarevich's illness.
Rasputin
This political ideology emphasizes extreme nationalism, authoritarian leadership, militarism, and loyalty to the state above individual rights.
Fascism
This artistic and intellectual movement emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and individual expression over reason and industrial progress.
Romanticism
Reasons for the Industrial Revolution?
Rising Population, Increase in Trade, Better Transportation
This economic system is based on private ownership, competition, and the pursuit of profit in a free market.
Capitalism
This German emperor ruled during World War I and supported an aggressive foreign policy that increased tensions in Europe.
Kaiser Wilhelm the II
This 1916 promise by Germany stated that passenger ships would not be sunk without warning and that civilians would be protected during submarine warfare
Sussex Pledge
This political philosophy promoted individual rights, constitutional government, democracy, and economic freedom during the 19th century.
Liberalism
This American inventor created the cotton gin and promoted the use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing.
Eli Whitney
This economic and political system emphasizes collective or government ownership of resources to promote greater economic equality.
Socialism (Communism)
This World War I "front" became known for trench warfare and a prolonged military stalemate.
Western Front
These Soviet forced-labor camps were used to imprison millions of people, including political opponents and criminals.
Gulags
This event occurred in the 1830s when their country's nationalists attempted to gain independence, but their uprising was crushed by the Russian Empire.
Poland Revolution
These overcrowded and poorly maintained apartment buildings housed many urban working-class families during the Industrial Revolution.
Tenements
This form of government gives a single leader or party complete control over nearly every aspect of public and private life.
Totalitarianism
This secret German message proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States and helped push America into World War I.
Zimmerman Telegram
This was the first artificial satellite launched into space, marking the beginning of the Space Age in 1957.
Sputnik
This was the price and seller of the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
$15 million and France
This American inventor is best known for developing a commercially successful steamboat that improved transportation and trade.
Robert Fulton
These were the two major opposing sides of the Russian Revolution that split in 1903 over how a socialist revolution should be achieved.
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks (Reds vs Whites)
This nickname was given to the Balkans because ethnic tensions and rivalries there threatened to spark a major war.
Powder Keg of Europe
This Soviet astronaut became the first human to travel into space when he orbited Earth in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin