Revolutionary Leaders
This Haitian leader guided the successful slave revolt that created the first independent Black republic in the Americas.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
A government in which a ruler holds complete power.
What is absolute monarchy?
The 1789 uprising that overthrew the Bourbon monarchy in France.
What is the French Revolution?
The French king known as the “Sun King” who exemplified absolutism and ordered the creation of the palace of Versailles.
Who is King Louis XIV?
The U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This South American liberator helped free several colonies from Spanish rule.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The Enlightenment thinker who argued that people possess natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
The 1848 publication written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
The Prussian statesman who unified Germany through “Blood and Iron.”
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The 1948–1949 crisis in which the Soviet Union blocked access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This Russian revolutionary led the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The idea that government power should be divided among branches to prevent tyranny.
What is separation of powers?
The 1884–1885 meeting where European powers divided much of Africa into colonies.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The British prime minister who led Britain during much of World War II and coined the term "Iron Curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The strategy of nonviolent resistance used by Mohandas Gandhi against British rule in India.
What is civil disobedience?
This Cuban revolutionary became the leader of Cuba after overthrowing Batista.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This economic and political ideology, developed by Karl Marx, advocates collective ownership of the means of production.
What is communism?
The 1919 peace agreement that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The South African leader who became the country’s first Black president after apartheid ended.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
A type of warfare that was used in many decolonial movements and that emphasizes tactics such as suprise attacks.
What is guerilla warfare?
This Vietnamese nationalist leader fought against both French colonial rule and later U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This authoritarian ideology, associated with Hitler and Mussolini, emphasizes extreme nationalism and dictatorial rule.
What is fascism?
The 1945 organization created to promote international cooperation and prevent future wars.
What is the United Nations?
The Soviet leader whose policies of perestroika and glasnost helped bring the Cold War to an end.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of missiles in a Carribbean island country.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?