World War I
World War I began because a young ... nationalist assassinated the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Serb
During the late 1800s, there was massive immigration from Europe to the US and Canada. Tignor calls it a "...".
Caucasian tsunami
During World War II nations in Europe brought in soldiers from their ... in Asia and Africa to help them in the war effort.
colonies
In 1946, when British prime minister Winston Churchill spoke to a US audience, he mentioned the term "..." for the first time.
the Iron Curtain
After World War II, Europe had no moral justification for the colonization of Africans and Asians. The first Asian country to break free was ... in 1947.
India
Before the war started, England was fearful of the growing military strength of Germany, as seen in the story about
Dracula
The second most popular destination for European immigrants, after the US, was ...
Argentina
Japan became a ferocious imperial power in Asia during World War II, under the slogan ...
Asia for Asians
For one year, from 1948 to 1949, the Soviet Union tried to prevent the people of ... from receiving food supplies from the West.
West Berlin
Decolonization was accompanied by violence and ... in two different parts of the world, namely, the Middle East and South Asia.
partition
After World War I, the three secret agreements made by Britain to divide up the Arab world were revealed. One of them was with the Arab leader, ...
Sharif Hussain
In 1882, anti-immigrant sentiment in the US expressed itself in a racist law against an Asian group. This law was called the ...
Chinese Exclusion Act
Post-World War II discrimination by the Japanese government against the ..., those who had suffered radiation injuries after the US bombed Japan, led for a long time to silence about the issue.
hibakusha
This diplomat argued in the Long Telegram that the Soviet Union was unwilling to be a peaceful partner in the post-WWII world, seeking world domination instead.
George Kennan
The term "..." refers to the countries of Asia, Africa, and South America that emerged from colonialism after World War II and were poor. Today they are called "developing countries."
Third World
After the end of World War I, the empires of one side came to an end. Which side was this?
the Axis powers
Around the same time, this pan-German leader gave an anti-Semitic speech in the Austrian parliament, voicing an opinion later adopted by Hitler.
Georg von Schonerer
Questions arise over whether the US would have chosen to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945 if President Roosevelt (FDR), rather than ..., had been president.
President Harry Truman
The Vietnamese victory over the French at ... led the French to finally leave Vietnam in 1954, after almost a century of colonial rule.
Dien Bien Phu
A small number of countries tried to stay out of the Cold War rivalries of the Western world and the Communist world by seeking to be ...
non-aligned
Ignoring President Wilson's Fourteen Points speech, the victorious Allies imposed harsh terms on Germany at the Treaty of ...
Versailles
In new nation-states, according to British historian ..., new traditions were "invented" in the 19th and 20th centuries in order to create a sense of national belonging.
Eric Hobsbawm
The Soviet Union suffered the greatest casualties during World War II, at ... dead, which was greater than the combined total of the US and Great Britain, Stalin reminded Churchill after the war was over.
7 million
This senator argued that the US's greatest enemy in Vietnam was not communism but its own loss of a moral compass, leading to its inability to tell right from wrong.
John Kerry
Gandhi tried to show the way out of violent conflict, both to Indians and to Western nations, by means of his message of "..." or peaceful struggle for truth.
Satyagraha