European Imperialism in Africa
Rwanda
South Africa
China
Communism
100
List three major reasons why Europeans colonized Africa.
What is to gain access to natural resources, to gain access to trade routes to the East (India, China, etc.), and to compete with other European nations?
100
These are the two major ethnic groups in Rwanda.
What are Hutus and Tutsis?
100
This is the capital of South Africa.
What is Pretoria?
100
This is the founder of the Communist party in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
This is a basic definition of communism.
What is a political/economic system with the goals of creating and enforcing equality among all people?
200
Provide a definition of imperialism / colonialism.
What is the efforts of a ruler or country to gain power over foreign lands?
200
The large majority of Rwandans are considered to be part of this ethnic group.
What is Hutu?
200
This is the term for the rural areas where many black South Africans were forced to live by the white South African government.
What is homeland?
200
This is the leader of the Nationalist Part in China.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
200
This is why many people in China might have found the idea of communism appealing in the late 1800s - early 1900s.
What is there was a wide gap between the majority of poor people / peasants and the small minority of wealthy elites / landowners? The wealthy elite / landowners often took advantage of their power, treating the poor people / peasants with very little respect / rights.
300
These two countries colonized South Africa.
What is the British and the Dutch?
300
European colonists favored this ethnic group in Rwanda, claiming that they were easier to work with than the other ethnic group.
What is Tutsi?
300
This is the term used for the segregated neighborhoods on the outskirts of major cities where black South Africans were forced to live.
What is township?
300
This was the group of young people who enforced the rules and expectations of the Cultural Revolution.
What is the Red Guard?
300
These are some reasons why Fidel Castro claimed communism was necessary in Cuba.
What are: a large part of the Cuban population was uneducated, could not find stable work, did not have access to electricity and other basic needs, and could not access health services? And a small part of the Cuban population was extremely privileged and was not helping to take care of the poorer population?
400
These two countries colonized Rwanda.
What are Germany and Belgium?
400
This is the term used to describe an attempts wipe out a group that shares a certain characteristic.
What is genocide?
400
One of the most controversial Apartheid laws was the "pass law". This law required... (complete the sentence).
...black South Africans to carry a "pass" on them at all times, indicating which areas a person was permitted to be in.
400
This is the controversial product that Great Britain sold in China. These were the results of the product on Chinese society.
What is opium? What is widespread addiction to opium and the crippling of a large part of the Chinese population due to the sedative, destructive effects of the drug?
400
This is the term used to describe when a country or society makes a major shift away from an agricultural lifestyle and economy towards a lifestyle and economy based on the production of goods in factories.
What is industrialization?
500
This was a meeting held between the leaders of European nations to peacefully divide up the colonial territories in Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
500
This is the approximate number of people who were killed in the Rwandan Genocide.
What is 800,000-1,000,000?
500
This is what the Bantu Education Act did.
What is providing black South Africans with a limited education suited only to the "needs and requirements" of black people (i.e. skills required for low-level jobs)?
500
This was the goal of the "Great Leap Forward" in China. This was the result of the "Great Leap Forward" in China.
What is to modernize the Chinese agricultural / industrial economy to make it competitive with the rest of the world? What is complete failure of agricultural modernization strategies, resulting in the deaths of millions due to starvation?
500
These are the five major steps in human political / economic evolution, according to Marx.
What is 1) primitive communism, 2) feudalism, 3) capitalism, 4) socialism, 5) communism?
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