World War Causes
What is the Russian or Communist Revolution?
These two nations emerged as dominant global superpowers after WWII.
What are the U.S. and USSR?
As an ideological conflict, the Cold War pitted these two ideologies against each other.
What are communism and capitalism?
This European meeting dividing up Africa for colonization provides great context for decolonization.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This genocide took place in the 1990s against the Tutsi people in the nation for which the genocide is named.
What the Rwandan Genocide?
These four words represent the MAIN causes of WWI.
What is militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
WWI put the final nail in the coffin for this struggling land based empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
While never directly engaging in a hot war, the U.S. and USSR engaged in this type of activity, as evidenced by conflicts in Vietnam and Korea, among others.
What is proxy war?
India, Algeria, Vietnam, the Gold Coast, and many others established independent governments as part of this overall process.
What is decolonization?
The influence of American Hollywood led to this rhyming Indian phenomenon, a great example of cultural syncretism in this period.
What is Bollywood?
This document was highly punitive against Germany, partially enabling the rise of fascism.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Both WWI and WWII were "this" type of war, in which all of a nation's resources are devoted to war effort, dramatically changing the economy and social life.
What is a total war?
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana was a major leader of this movement meeting at the Bandung Conference, meant to protest colonialism and side-taking in the Cold War.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
This policy, implemented by Mao Zedong and similar to Stalin's Five Year Plan, led to agricultural deficits in China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This earlier genocide in Ukraine, committed by Joseph Stalin, laid the groundwork for the more modern Ukrainian genocide occurring today.
What is the Holodomor?
This policy, instituted by the UK, France, and U.S., further enabled Hitler to expand German borders.
What is appeasement?
Following WWII, this nation received additional attention (resulting in additional conflict) due to the hardships faced by European Jews in the Holocaust.
What is Israel?
The U.S. is to NATO as the USSR is to this military alliance.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Disagreement between the Indian National Congress and Muslim League during decolonization led to the creation of these two conflicting nations based on religious grounds.
What are India and Pakistan?
This type of economic system was championed by Thatcher, Reagan, and even some folks in Russia, which led in part to the collapse of the USSR and Communist government.
What is free market capitalism?
This economic phenomenon, pertaining to the devaluing of money, was a result of Great Depression and provides excellent economic context for WWII.
What is inflation?
After WWII, this global organization was formed as a way to prevent conflict on this level from occurring again.
What is the United Nations?
The cultural and technological phenomenon was another competitive aspect of the Cold War.
What is either the space race or nuclear proliferation?
Apartheid, ended in South Africa with the presidential election of Nelson Mandela, was a segregation system that favored white Afrikaners, who were mainly descendants of this other nationality.
This online marketplace is the College Board's preferred example for globalization seen through the internet.
What is eBay?