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What is genocide?
The event that started World War II in Europe.
What is Germany's invasion of Poland
During the Renaissance, this invention allowed the exchange and practice of new scientific theories and ideas.
What is the printing press.
The space race, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the build up of nuclear weapons.
This trade route connected East Asia to the Mediterranean basin.
What is the Silk Road.
The mass murder committed by the Hutu against the Tutsi in the 1990s.
What was the Rwandan Genocide?
Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt
Who were the Allied leaders of WWII.
The Catholic Church's response to the Reformation that worked to correct abuses of the Catholic Church.
What is the Counter Reformation.
The primary goal of the U.S. containment policy after WWII.
To stop the spread of communism and Soviet Union's influence around the world.
Leader of the Kingdom of Mali who helped spread Islam throughout Northern Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa.
Motivation for imperialism during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
What was the acquisition of raw materials and new markets?
A main cause of World War II.
A young monk who started the Protestant Reformation, which challenged the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther.
Soviet Union accomplishment that forced the U.S. to increase spending on space technology.
What is the launch of Sputnik I into orbit.
A period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
Leader of successful reforms against apartheid in South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
U.S. military strategy during WWII that allowed the U.S. to acquire strategic islands under Japanese control.
What is "island hopping."
The event that started the French Revolution.
What was the storming of the Bastille Prison.
An extension of the Truman Doctrine that provided economic aid to European countries in order to prevent the spread of communism.
What was the Marshall Plan.
Impact of the Industrial Revolution on daily life.
What is Urbanization. (large migration from rural areas to urban areas)
Examples of 20th-century genocide.
What were the Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide (Hutu/Tutsi), Cambodian Genocide (Khmer Rouge)?
The MAIN causes of WWI.
What were Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism.
Enlightenment ideals, weak leadership, economic troubles and lavish spending by the King and Queen.
What were the causes of the French Revolution.
South African policy that gave privileges to whites and oppressed black citizens.
What was Apartheid?
The 19th century belief that some nations and races were superior to others and destined to rule over weaker nations.
What is Social Darwinism's and Imperialism.