The Enlightenment and Revolutions
Who is the prominent figure of the Haitian Revolution?
Toussaint Louverture
What resource helped fuel the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain?
Coal
The name of the European meeting to divide Africa
Berlin Conference
What was the main method of warfare during WWI?
Trench warfare
Which two ideologies were at the forefront of the Cold War?
Who were the two main countries involved?
Capitalism and Communism
United States and the USSR
Name one Enlightenment thinker and what they believed in
John Lock - Natural Rights
Montesquieu - Separation of powers
Voltaire - Freedom of speech
Rousseau - consent of the governed/ social contract
What was the act that caused small farmers to move to cities? Leading to the development of Urbanization and lots of factory workers.
Enclosure Acts
What was the White Man's Burden?
What was the immediate cause of World War I? What year did this event occur?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
What was the United States' main goal during the Cold War?
Containment of Communism
Why was the Declaration of the Rights of Man created?
- discontent of the Third Estate with the Old Regime (French social hierarchy)
- lack of rights for the lower class
What were some issues that affected people and cities during the Industrial Revolution?
- pollution
- child labor
- women did not have the right to vote
- unsafe working conditions
- poor living conditions (crowding in cities)
- unsanitary cities
Daily Double: When I taught about African Imperialism, I showed a video and compared Imperialism to what animals lifestyle?
Bees
These two totalitarian leaders grew to prominence in Europe after WWI and before WWII.
- Adolf Hitler
- Joseph Stalin
What does the term "iron curtain" refer to?
The metaphorical/ sometimes physical wall dividing eastern and western Europe during the Cold War.
Which two modern-day European countries underwent unification in the 1800s? (Hint: Nationalism)
Germany and Italy
According to Karl Marx, under which social class did most people exist in during the Industrial Revolution?
Proletariat (working class)
What is an example of Indian resistance to British colonization?
Sepoy Rebellion/ Sepoy Mutiny/ Indian Rebellion
List (1) long term cause and (1) short term cause of WWII.
- unresolved issues from the Treaty of Versailles
- appeasement
- failure of the League of Nations
- Great Depression and rise of dictators
- Hitler's invasion of Poland (1939)
Why were tensions so high during the Cold War?
The USSR and United States had nuclear weapons
What was the social hierarchy in the Spanish colonies of Latin America? Explain each group.
- Peninsulares (born in Spain)
- Creoles (Spanish descent, born in colony)
- Mestizos and Mulattoes (mixed descent; native, African, European)
- Africans and Natives (enslaved)
What are two differences between capitalism and a communist economy?
Capitalism - competition between businesses, not run by the government, supply and demand, focused on making profit
Communist - production and prices are run by the government, no competition, government may provide more equal distribution of resources
What were some ways the British abused their power in China after the Opium Wars?
- unfair treaties
- territory was given to imperial powers
- British forced the Chinese to give them access to trading ports
- China was forced to pay for damages after the Opium Wars
What were some ways the Holocaust developed in Germany?
- antisemitic propaganda
- boycotting/ vandalizing Jewish businesses
- identification specific to Jews
- Jews' assets were frozen
- forced relocation
List two examples of Cold War Proxy Wars.
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Soviet-Afghanistan War
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