After WWI, this peace-making organization was established but never quite had the power it needed to be effective.
What is the League of Nations?
100
She reorganized Russia’s bureaucracy, codified the laws, and worked to bring her country into European cultural and political life.
Who is Catherine the Great?
100
After WWI, this country’s main goal was to make sure that Germany was weakened and never threatened them again.
What is France?
100
The Industrial Revolution was ultimately sparked by this revolution. With greater productivity on farms, many unemployed workers became the workforce of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
100
This nation was embarrassed when they lost in the Crimean War and again to Japan.
What is Russia?
200
This new form of weaponry often caused slow and painful deaths from suffocation or internal bleeding.
What are poisonous gases?
200
He wrote that we are all born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
200
This country led the way in industrialization because their government was stable, they had an abundance of natural resources, and there were many unemployed people in need of work.
What is Britain?
200
This Prussian victory united the people of the German Confederation and spread national pride. Afterwards, Wilhelm I of Prussia became Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
200
Baroque art is most connected to this era in history.
What is the Age of Absolutism?
300
This term describes the state of the western front when neither side could decisively defeat the other.
What is a stalemate?
300
This guy led the English Civil War against an absolute monarch. But once he had power, he ultimately acted much like a dictator.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
300
Because of its large population and failure to industrialize, this country was a target for many European imperialist powers. In addition, they did not have a strong military.
What is China?
300
At this meeting, European powers literally divided up Africa, staking claim and drawing borders without consideration of traditional divisions.
What is the Berlin Conference?
300
As a result of photography, this form of art became popular, where an artist would try to capture an image as it first appears to your eye.
What is impressionism?
400
The first step in Germany’s war strategy called for a quick defeat of this nation.
What is France?
400
This $cottish man applied enlightened thinking to theories on economics.
Who is Adam $mith?
400
After WWI, the northern part of this nation remained united with Great Britain while the rest gained independence. There was much religious conflict over this divide.
What is Ireland?
400
The Russian Revolution was actually a series of revolutions that resulted in the destruction of this form of government.
What is the Tsarist government?
400
In the years leading up to WWI, nationalist tensions threatened these three old empires.
What are Austria-Hungry, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia?
500
Mussolini was a charismatic speaker who gained power by marching on Rome and convincing the King of Italy to step down. He promised to turn the Mediterranean into this.
What is a Roman Lake?
500
This Enlightened thinker believed that governments should be freely elected and limited by the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
This nation’s imperialist efforts were originally motivated by a need for natural resources after successful industrialization.
What is Japan?
500
This guy inherited an empire that was almost impossible to rule. Not only was France smack in the middle of his empire, but there were many diverse people under his leadership and they were being attacked by the Muslim Ottoman Empire on multiple fronts.
Who is Charles V? (Spain + Hapsburg Empire)
500
Both of these documents reflected the growing strength of the United States as they exerted their influence over many countries in the Western Hemisphere.
What are the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary?