“Steam, Steel & Society” (Industrial Revolution)
“Empire Grab: Who’s Got the Map?” (Imperialism)
“Revolt & Rewrite the Rules” (Revolutions)
“Total War Takeover” (World Wars)
“Cold War Chess Match”
100

This country industrialized first due to resources like coal and access to capital.

What is Great Britain?

100

This ideology justified imperialism by claiming survival of the fittest among nations.

What is Social Darwinism?

100

This European revolution in the late 18th century overthrew the monarchy, much bloodshed, and led to radical political change.

What is the French Revolution?

100

This event sparked World War I.

What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

100

This conflict between the U.S. and USSR was marked by tension but no direct war.

What is the Cold War?

200

This invention by James Watt improved steam engine efficiency.

What is the steam engine?

200

European powers competed for land in Africa in this event.

What is the Berlin Conference?

200

This revolution in Russia led to the rise of communism.

What is the Bolshevik Revolution?

200

This treaty ended World War I and punished Germany.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

200

This crisis nearly led to nuclear war in 1962.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

300

Industrialization led to a shift from agrarian economies to this type of economic system.

What is a market-based/capitalist economy?

300

This country controlled the Congo under King Leopold II.

What is Belgium?

300

This thinker argued that class struggle would lead to revolution.

Who is Karl Marx?

300

This alliance opposed the Axis powers in World War II.

What are the Allies?

300

The United States created this in response to counter the Soviet Union's expansion into outer space. 

What is NASA?

400

This ideology argued that workers should control the means of production.

What is socialism (or communism)?

400

This was a rebellion in India related to animal fat on the gun cartridges as they feared the British were attempting to destory their religions and cultures.

What is the Sepoy Rebellion?

400

Latin American revolutions were often led by elites seeking independence from this empire.

What is Spain?

400

This strategy involved attacking civilians to break morale.

What is total war (or strategic bombing)?

400

This alliance was led by the United States.

What is NATO?

500

The emergence of factory-based production in Great Britain during the First Industrial Revolution both relied on and accelerated this earlier agricultural transformation, which increased population growth while simultaneously displacing rural laborers into urban industrial centers.



What is the Agricultural Revolution (or enclosure movement)?


500

Following the Spanish-American War, the U.S. decision to annex the ____________________ led to a violent conflict with nationalists, illustrating the contradiction between America’s promotion of democratic ideals and this imperial practice.

What is the Philippines? 


500

What was the year in the mid 19th century of many revolutions in Europe? 

What is 1848?

500

The harsh terms of Versailles contributed to the rise of this type of regime in Germany.

What is fascism?

500

The American diplomat and historian, suggested the policy of containment in the late 1940s to check Soviet expansionism.

Who is George F. Kennan?