Industrial Imperialism
Random Draw
Global Conflict
Mass Atrocities
Decolonization & the Cold War
100
The process when Japan, led by the Meiji, modernized its army, schools, and economy to avoid being colonized.
What is defensive modernization?
100
The European countries divided Africa at this 1884–85 meeting, without consulting any Africans.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
Soldiers lived in muddy, dangerous conditions with constant fear of attack in this kind of WWI combat.
What is trench warfare?
100
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
100
These were the two main economic systems that competed during the Cold War.
What are communism and capitalism?
200
The process in which India saw its textile industry collapse as British cloth took over the market
What is deindustrialization?
200
This Ejisu queen led a resistance movement against the British in what is now Ghana.
Who is Yaa Asantewaa?
200
This worldwide economic event in the 1930s led to mass unemployment, inflation, and helped fascist leaders come to power, including Hitler, Mussolini, Franco.
What is the Great Depression?
200
This refers to the complete destruction of a group of people, and includes cases like the Holocaust and Rwanda.
What is genocide?
200
This African leader used nonviolent protests to lead Ghana to independence, styled after this Indian nonviolent protester.
2 People
Who are Kwame Nkrumah and Mahatma Gandhi?
300
Two different systems Europeans used to govern their colonies, one calling for more European administrators, and one using local leaders as figureheads for colonial control.
What are direct and indirect rule?
300
Three promises of the Russian Revolution
What is "Peace, Land, Bread"?
300
Three authoritarians who rose to power in the Interwar period?
Who are Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin?
300
This Cold War rival was likely a target of intimidation when the U.S. used atomic bombs on Japan.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
300
This type of war, like in Korea or Vietnam, involved U.S. and USSR backing different sides without fighting each other directly.
What is a proxy war?
400
These specific inventions and ideas, helped Europeans conquer and justify control over colonies.
What are steamship, vaccines, Maxim gun, Social Darwinism, and the White Man’s Burden, etc?
400
An example of Economic Resistance
What is Boycotts, Strikes, Walk-out, Sabotage/Arson, tariffs, divestment, etc.
400
This acronym M.A.I.N. stands for...
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
400
In Rwanda, radio broadcasts that called Tutsis “cockroaches” are an example of this early stage of genocide, where victims are described as less than human.
What is dehumanization?
400
This Chinese movement, called _____________led by ___________ involved Red Guards attacking the Four "Olds"
What are the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong?
500
Identify the name of the meeting and the idea that made these men feel superior.
What is the Berlin Conference and White Man's Burden/Social Darwinism?
500
What kind of resistance is this and in what country?
Political resistance in the Ghana election that made Kwame Nkrumah Ghana's first president
500
What document is this referring to, and why is the child crying?
Treaty of Versailles, because the cartoonist is pointing out how the Treaty will cause another war and another "class" of soldiers on the front.
500
Identify this stage of genocide and a prevention method
What is Symbolization?
And: What are laws prohibiting hate speech and freedom of assembly, etc.
500
What policy is being made fun of here and what do the arrows symbolize?
What is MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction and Proxy Wars fought instead