Age of Imperialism
Coal, cotton, diamonds, gold, oil, rubber
What are the resources the Europeans wanted from Africa and Asia?
Britain, France, Italy, Russia
Who were the major allied powers of World War I?
These groups of people were targeted by Hitler during the Holocaust
What are Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and slavic peoples?
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Machine guns, airplanes, tanks, nuclear missiles are all examples of how this changed history and warfare
What is technology?
Secure resources and control markets
What are the motivations for Europeans conquering Africa and Asia?
Belief in using force to get your way. Often participates in an arms race to get more and better weapons than your enemy.
What is militarism?
Over 11 million people were killed in these places during the Holocaust.
What is a Concentration Camp (or death camp/forced labor camp)?
This organization was created to counter NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Countries form these groups for protection and reducing the chance of war. When a war occurs, it is often a large or world war.
What is a system of alliances?
The belief that the strong survive. Those who are weak deserve to be conquered or enslaved.
This event was the immediate trigger for World War 1
What was the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.
This form of government beliefs that the governemnt should own all property and is ruled by a single worker's party who makes decisions for everyone.
What is communism?
This strategy was made to prevent communism from spreading to the democratic west
What is containment (or Truman Doctrine)?
A series of walls and political barriers designed to divide the European continent between East and West. A common method to help maintain rule and control.
What is the Iron Curtain?
A campaign of peaceful non-violent actions to unite India against the British.
What is Gandhi's Nonviolent movement?
Use of songs such as "rule Britannia" "Germany above all" and propaganda posters are examples of this.
What is nationalism?
This belief expouses an extreme sense of nationalism, single party rule, and use of violence against those who disagree.
What is fascism?
This event almost resulted in a nuclear war because of missiles placed in countries near the Cold War superpowers.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
US plan to get countries in Europe on its side by handing out money for reconstruction after World War II. A common plan used to quickly gain influence in the world.
What is the Marshall Plan?
What is the Belgian Congo?
These events at the end of World War I resulted in ethnic, racial, and religious conflict in Europe and the Middles East that go on to this day.
What is the result of the collapse of the Austrian, Ottoman, and Russian empires?
This treaty placed these terms upon Germany after WWI: reduce army to 100k, pay reparations, give up land and resources, take full blame for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This idea prevented the United States and Soviet Union from directly fighting during the Cold War.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
The goto method that dictators use to take control and rule a country.
What is the strategy of "divide and conquer?"