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This empire had collapsed by the 1730s, leaving India vulnerable to European takeover.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This Austrian archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, starting the July Crisis.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
He was made Chancellor in 1933, immediately declaring "The Third Reich."
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This weapon has only been used in wartime twice, both times during World War II.
What is the atomic bomb?
This period, which ran from roughly 1946–1991, was characterized by ideological competition and the threat of nuclear conflict.
This social class was most likely to support the French Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
This system of mutual defense agreements turned a single assassination into a world war.
What are alliances?
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Great Purge and the Holodomor, twisting the ideals of communism into oppressive rule.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This policy of giving in to Germany's territorial demands was driven by European reluctance to get drawn into another war.
What is appeasement?
After World War II, these two countries went from allies to enemies.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This 1789 French document declared that presumption of innocence, among other liberties, belonged to all French citizens.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This terrifying weapon, first used during World War I, had effects from suffocation, to severe blisters, blinding.
What is gas / chemical weapons?
This revolutionary demanded that Nicholas II resign as Tsar, and became the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The destruction of these two cities led to the Japanese surrender in World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
President Harry Truman declared this policy in 1947. Its main goal was to prevent the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Abundance of this mineral resource helped Britain become the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal?
This term, meaning advocacy for spending on a larger army and navy, caused tension between European nations before the war.
What is militarism?
This was the common political trait of the dictatorships established by Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, where the ruler had total control over people's lives.
What is totalitarianism?
The German invasion of this country finally set off World War II in September, 1939.
What is Poland?
This campaign consisted of 200,000 flights delivering necessary resources to the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This foreign power took control of India starting in the mid 1700s.
What is Britain / The British East India Company?
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points for Peace were rejected by the writers of this peace treaty.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This worldwide economic crisis, starting in 1929, created an opening exploited by fascist dictators.
What is the Great Depression?
This German word, meaning "lightning warfare," refers to a tactic of using speed, surprise, and concentrated force to quickly overwhelm opponents.
What is blitzkrieg?
This was Winston Churchill's name for the border between capitalism and communism established by the Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?