People
This man was the leader of non-violent protests during the Indian Independence movement.
Gandhi
The most famous building in India, the Taj Mahal's main purpose is to be a:
Tomb
This event, the largest naval invasion in world history, occurred in Normandy, France.
D-Day
The set of ideas that includes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise is usually called:
Liberalism
Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination kicked off WWI, was killed in this city.
Sarajevo
This English king pulled his country away from the Catholic Church because the pope wouldn't grant him a divorce.
Henry VIII
When the city of Constantinople was conquered in 1453, its name was changed to ___________ by the Turks.
Istanbul
This meeting led to the dismantling of Czechoslovakia and heralded the beginning of WWII.
Munich Conference
This idea, forwarded by Thomas Hobbes, stated that individuals gave up absolute freedom for the protections & stability that governments provided.
Social Contract
This rebellion in China was led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, who wanted to remove Western influence from the country.
Boxer Rebellion
Middle Class
Which half of Germany was communist during the Cold War?
This peace agreement ended the 30 Years War and stated that each ruler could determine the religious rules of their territory.
Peace of Westphalia
This Indian religious movement was influences by both Islam & Hinduism.
Sikhism
This Chinese explorer took enormous treasure ships to South Asia and East Africa before Columbus ever sailed.
Zheng He
This person led the period of the French Revolution known as the Reign of Terror.
Maximillian Robespierre
Japan kicked off WWII in Asia by invading this region of China.
Manchuria.
Most consider this the closest the world has ever been to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Calvinist religious idea. Stated that God has already decided who will be going to heaven and hell.
Predestination
These men were the Islamic religious leaders who took control during the Iranian Revolution.
This party took over the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. They led the Ottomans into WWI and committed the Armenian Genocide.
Young Turks
This was the Spanish Empire's greatest silver mine, located in South America.
Potosi
This was Mao Zedong's program to industrialize China in 5 years or less. It ended in a famine that killed around 30 million people.
Great Leap Forward
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx wrote that this group would eventually rise up and seize the "means of production."
Proletariat
This emperor took back control from the shoguns and led the modernization of Japan.
Meiji