Enlightenment/Revolutions
These are where enlightenment thinkers would meet and discuss their ideas with one another. They were popular in France
What are salons?
The country in which the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain/England?
This event sparked the beginning of World War 1.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The nickname for October 9th, 1929 which saw the U.S. stock market crash and began the economic downturn known as the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This battle in the European Theater was the deadliest battle in human history.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
This enlightenment thinker popularized the idea of a "Social Contract" between the people and the government.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
What is the Factory System?
This was a international organization designed to promote peace.
What is the League of Nations?
This American policy loaned money to Germany in order to pay off it's debts to Great Britain and France, who then paid America for supplying arms in the war.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This was the strategy the US had to control the Pacific and get closer to Japan.
What is Island-Hopping?
This radical Jacobin French revolutionary is infamous for beheading thousands with the Guillotine, known as the "Reign of Terror."
Who is Maximillian Robbespierre?
This was an imperialist and racist sentiment that held that the white race was tasked with "civilizing" peoples of other countries/races.
What is the "White man's burden?"
These are three reasons why trench warfare was awful in World War I.
What are shell shock, trench foot/disease, toxic gases, no man's land, stalemates, etc.?
These are 2 causes of the Great Depression.
What are the overproduction of goods, agricultural problems (dust bowl), bank failures, overuse of credit?
This event caused France and Great Britain to finally declare war on Germany after years of appeasement.
What was Hitler's invasion of Poland?
This set of laws, implemented by a French emperor who conquered a large swath of Europe, still influences many legal systems in the world today.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This Russian Leader overthrew Czar Nicholas II for his poor leadership, and established a Bolshevik reign.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
These were the countries involved in the "quadruple alliance" in WWI, also known as the Central Powers
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire?
The failure of banks and the bad economy led people to find a scapegoat for their problems, which led to a rise in this form of hate toward a group of religious/ethnic people.
What is Anti-Semitism?
These were the 3 ways or "steps" in which Jews were persecuted by the Nazis as part of their "solution."
What are expulsion (kicked out of Germany), containment (put in ghettos/camps), and annihilation (killed)?
These are two reasons why Haiti faces economic issues to this day.
What are a long and bloody revolution, reliance on subsistence farming, poor leadership, and fear of slave revolt in other countries?
These are 5 inventions that came about in the industrial revolution.
What are the steam engine, railroad, telegraph, lightbulbs, electricity, steel production, aspirin (medication), etc?
These were the four causes of World War I.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
These five countries had totalitarian leaders rise to power in the 20s and 30s.
What are Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, and Spain?
These are the 4 main causes of World War II
What are the Treaty of Versailles, Great Depression, Isolationism, and the rise of Totalitarian Regimes?