Shifting Power
WWI
WWII
Mass Atrocities
100

An organization representing the revolutionary working class in Russia

Bolsheviks

100
Name 2 causes of WWI

Any two of the following: Assassination, Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

100

The names of the two major alliances in WWII (must have both)

Allies and Axis

100

Attempted killing of a group of people based on race, religion, or ethnicity

Genocide

200

A political system that teaches that workers should own the means of production and collective ownership leads to collective prosperity and a just society.

Communism

200

A Serbian terrorist group responsible for assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Black Hand

200

The dictators of Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union (must name all 3)

Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin

200

A series of policies banning Jews from certain job fields and schools

Nuremberg Laws

300

China's first leader after becoming a republic

Sun Yat-Sen

300

At the end of WWI, several world leaders had this meeting.

Paris Peace Conference

300

The reason that America was dragged out of isolationism and into WWII

Attack on Pearl Harbor

300

Yugoslavia's disintegration into separate states

balkanization

400

What is Turkification?

An effort to make all people who resided in the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire (Turkey) identify with Turkish culture

400

The ability of a country/people group to determine their own political future

Self-determination

400

Giving in to demands in order to try to maintain peace

Appeasement

400

The two tribes involved in the Rwanda genocide (must have both)

Hutu and Tutsi

500

Dictator ruling Mexico at the turn of the 20th century

Porfirio Diaz

500

Another name for Germany after WWI

Weimar Republic

500

A pseudoscientific theory claiming that some races are genetically superior to others

Scientific racism

500

A region of western Sudan where a genocide occurred in 2003 between Arabs and non-Arabs

Darfur