Revolutions
"Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea!?" was a question you might see in this movement
What is the American Revolution?
Access to large amounts of cotton from Britain's colony in India led to the development of this first "industrialized" industry
What is the textile industry?
Adam Smith's laissez-faire policies encouraged the development of this system, whereas Karl Marx's ideas of a classless society encouraged this one
What are Capitalism and Communism?
Unlike in 1905, the Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the Bolsheviks (led by Lenin) taking over and eventually forming this new nation
What is the Soviet Union?
A response to the instability of WWI and the Great Depression was the rise of this extremist political ideology in Europe
What is Fascism?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was created during this revolution, channeling the ideas of the European Enlightenment
What is the French Revolution?
Rural people moving to the cities looking for jobs in new factories is known as this
What is Urbanization?
The British fighting the Dutch in South Africa over control of that country is also known as this
What are the Boer Wars?
In China's nationalist vs communist struggle, the Communists would ultimately prove victorious—with this towering figure at the top
Who is Mao Zedong?
Developed by the US, the atomic bomb would kill hundreds of thousands and end the war in the Pacific after it was dropped on these two Japanese cities
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Considered the only truly successful large-scale slave rebellion in the world, this revolution defeated French colonial rule and created the first black government in the western hemisphere
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Russian factory workers marching on the Winter Palace in 1905 to demand better working conditions, and later getting fired upon by the Czar's Imperial Guard, is better known as this
What is Bloody Sunday?
European powers carving up and colonizing Africa (without any consent from the Africans) was the end result of this conference
What is The Berlin Conference? (1884-85)
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian political figure sparked the First World War
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
In the Cold War, two opposing military alliances emerged: NATO in the west, and this opposite alliance of the USSR and its satellite states
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Spanish and Portuguese colonies, influenced by the enlightenment, resented the increasing control by their imperial powers—leading to these revolutions
What are Latin American Revolutions?
To avoid imperialization by western powers, Japan's modernization—opening up its ports and becoming one of the most powerful industrial states in the region—is also know as this
What is the Meiji Restoration?
People linked through shared language, religion, culture, or social customs believing in their own greatness is also called this
What is Nationalism?
During WWI, Ottoman authorities relocated and exterminated millions of a specific group of people, in an event known as this
What is the Armenian Genocide?
What is a Proxy War?
Inspired by growing nationalism, these two fragmented European states unified into independent countries in the mid-19th century
What are Italy and Germany?
Goods produced more cheaply and efficiently is also known as this
What is mass production?
China was not interested in trading with Britain and refused their advances, which led to this conflict in the late 19th century
What are the Opium Wars?
The treaty punishing Germany after the conclusion of WWI was called this
Decolonization was largely propelled by the desire and fight of home populations to govern themselves, otherwise known as this
What is self-determination (or self-rule)?