Industrial Revolution
This invention improved factories and transportation in 1769.
What is the steam engine?
Control by one nation over another land and its people.
What is imperialism?
The assassination of this man sparked World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This dictator ruled Italy and led the Blackshirts.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
Germany’s fast-moving military attack strategy.
What is blitzkrieg?
Workers produced goods in their homes under this production system.
What is the domestic system?
Great Britain ruled India during this period.
What is the British Raj?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made up this alliance.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Hitler wrote this autobiography and political manifesto.
What is Mein Kampf?
Japan attacked this U.S. naval base in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
These allowed machines to be assembled quickly using standardized components.
What are interchangeable parts?
This conference divided Africa among European nations in 1884–1885.
What is the Berlin West Africa Conference?
The dangerous area between trenches during WWI.
What is no-man’s land?
Stalin’s series of economic programs focused on industrialization and collectivization.
What are the Five-Year Plans?
The Allied invasion of Normandy took place on this famous day.
What is D-Day?
This economic idea argued the government should stay out of the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This African nation successfully resisted European colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
Germany used this military strategy to quickly defeat France before Russia mobilized.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Soviet prison camps used under Stalin’s rule.
What are gulags?
This battle marked a major German defeat in the Soviet Union.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This movement pushed many peasants into cities to work in factories.
What is the enclosure movement?
This U.S. policy warned Europe not to colonize Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This treaty ended WWI and punished Germany harshly.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This form of government controls all aspects of citizens’ lives.
What is a totalitarian state?
The systematic murder of six million Jews during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?