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100

Mao's government in China took this philosophy as their guide.

What is communism?

100

The leader of Russia during World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

Stalin.

100

Japan had imperialist tensions for this reason.

What is lack of raw materials or resources?

100

Friedrich Engels wrote about this revolution where people moved from a mostly rural and farming existence into cities where people worked in factories.

What is the industrial revolution?

100

This area of the world holds much of the world's oil.

What is the Middle East?
200

Similar to the five year plan, Mao used this plan to try and industrialize his country.

What is the Great Leap Forward?

200

The Russians used this policy to stop the Germans in World War II.

What is scorched earth policy?

200

The Young Turks used this idea to try and unite Turkey through love of their country.

What is nationalism? 

200

This revolution involved three estates.

What is the French Revolution?

200

The book the Wealth of Nations stressed the importance of this concept.

What is supply and demand (Capitalism)?

300

Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto are examples of this.

What is women gaining leadership roles around the world?

300

Leader of South Africa against racial separation.

Who is Nelson Mandela?

300

This organization help to encourage economic development around the world (they are supranational organizations).

Either Answer is fine: World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF)

300

This social change occurred during the industrial revolution.

What is the growth of the working class?

300

The United Nations called for a convention on the Prevention of Genocide in 1948 after this event.

What is the killing fields in or the Cambodian Genocide?

400

Aided Britain in starting the industrial revolution.

What is good harbors or navigable rivers or lots of natural resources like coal?

400
Deng Xiaoping in China called for this in the 1970s to change his goverment.

What is the encouragement of economic growth through modernization?

400

A modern genocide took place here between the Tutsi and the Hutus.

What is the Rwandan Genocide?

400

One similarity between the scientific revolution and enlightenment.

What is a questioning of traditional values and past practices.
400

Term created by Winston Churchill to symbolize differences between the east and west.

What is the Iron Curtain?

500

The era in history in Africa and Latin America following World War II.

What is decolonization?

500

The primary objective of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in the Soviet Union was this.

Gain stability by increasing production.

500

The government in South Africa during the 1960s.

What is Apartheid government or Afrikaner government?

500
Toussaint L'Overture led this revolt.

What is the Haitian Revolution?

500

The year that Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa.

What is 1994?