An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money into businesses in order to make a profit. In this system, individualism and competition is valued.
What is capitalism
100
The years of World War I
What are 1914-1918?
100
What product opened up trade between the Western World (specifically Great Britain) and China during the 18th and 19th centuries?
Opium
100
This group came up with the "Final Solution" to eliminate all Jews from Europe.
Who are the Nazis?
100
Totalitarian Leader of the Soviet Union from from 1941-1953. He strongly believed in Communism and spread it throughout Eastern Europe. He was known as a ruler with an iron fist.
Who is Stalin
200
This plan gave 400 million dollars to Greece and Turkey following World War II in order to gain their support for democracy and prevent communism from spreading.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This treaty ended World War I between the Allies and Germany. The treaty made Germany accept responsibility for the war, disarm itself, and pay reparations to the war torn nations. Germany did not finish paying these reparations until 2010!
What is The Treaty of Versilles
200
These are two causes of the industrial revolution which first occurred in Great Britain in the late 18th century (1700s)
(List 2 causes of the IR)
What are
1) the steam engine
2) agricultural revolution
3) improved transportation (roads/trains)
4) the cottage industry (early manufacturing and trade system)
5) Iron and Coal
200
In Germany, what event was known as "The Night of Broken Glass"?
What is Kristallnacht?
200
Following World War II, leaders split up this country and its capital into two sides. The east was democratic and the west was communist.
What is Germany?
300
A form of government that has total control over all aspects of both public and private life. Government censors media and punishes dissonant citizens.
What is totalitarianism?
300
These are two new technologies of World War I
What is poison gas, Uboats (submarines), tanks, machine guns, trench warfare
300
An English explorer who traveled through Africa and exposed the regions to the Western World. He helped develop maps for further exploration. His travels regrettably lead to the exploitation of African nations and peoples, especially that of the Congo by King Leopold and Belgium.
Who is Dr. David Livingstone?
300
This international organization was formed in 1949. It is a military alliance in which member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. It was created by western nations during the Cold War to prevent attacks from the Soviet Union and prevent the spread of communism.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
300
Nations surrounding the Soviet Union that were established as Communist states under the Soviet Union. Many of these nations established independence democracies at the end of the Cold War (1980s-1990s)
What are Satellite Nations?
400
Belief that people should be loyal to their nation rather than a king or empire. It involves extreme pride in your nation and culture and the desire for self rule. Examples include Gandhi's movement for Indian Independence.
What is Nationalism?
400
This country became the first nation with a Communist economic system following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
What is Russia (Soviet Union)
400
This country imperialized India and was known for its oppressive rule and exploitation of Indian people and natural resources. Imperial rule began in the mid 1800s and lasted until 1947.
What is Great Britain
400
These are the three main allied leaders during World War II.
Who are Winston Churchill (Britian), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), and Joseph Stalin (USSR)
400
During the Cold War, three "worlds" emerged. These two forces fought to gain support and influence in of "third world" nations.
What is the United States (democracy) 1st world
and The Soviet Unions (communism) 2nd world
500
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, and/or socially.
What is Imperialism?
500
Causes of World War I (name 2)
What is nationalism, secret alliances between nations, militarism, and the race for imperial empires in the early 1900s, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
500
Causes of the French Revolution include what?
What are a great divide between rich/poor;
stressful economic conditions for the peasantry;
government denial of human rights (needs of peasants)
500
This organization was created after World War II to "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small."
What is The United Nations
500
Stalin and other Soviet leaders established what to boost industrial and agricultural production of the Soviet Union?