Four Pillars of the 20th-Century World
The Balfour Declaration stated that the British were in favor of a national homeland for this largely European people.
Who are the Jews?
Economic phenomenon that totally wiped out the value of the savings of the German middle class in 1923.
What is hyperinflation?
The German term for “living space”—land required by the “racially superior Aryans” often taken from “inferior Slavic peoples.”
What is Lebensraum?
Chinese patriotic secret society called the Order of Righteous, Harmonious Fists rose up in 1900 against foreign nationals and their Chinese supporters in Beijing and throughout the countryside.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The policy pursued by Neville Chamberlain at the Munich Conference in 1938.
What is appeasement?
This environmental catastrophe of the North American Great Plains came about by the overuse of plows tilling the soil for cash crops
What is the Dust Bowl?
Large plantations owned and operated by wealthy Mexicans for export-oriented agriculture and mining.
What are haciendas?
Russian term for “rich peasants,” whom Stalin intended to liquidate as a separate class.
What are kulaks?
Hitler’s move against the SA or “brown-shirts” in favor of his corporate and military benefactors.
What is Night of the Long Knives?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attempt to reach out to common Americans through radio addresses that explained his New Deal policies.
What are fireside chats?
The name for the developing nations that often lost many of their citizens to better jobs in the developed economies of the “Western” world.
What is the Third World?
Lenin’s concession to limited free market economics in the early 1920s after the disastrous experiment with War Communism during the Russian Civil War.
What is the New Economic Policy?
Hindi term for “truth-force” which Gandhi used to refer to the moral force of passive resistance.
What is satyagraha?
A large ethnic minority that suffered significant losses in state-sponsored killings in 1915 due to extreme stress in Ottoman society.
What are the Armenian massacres?
The massacre of hundreds of peaceful petitioners at the Tsar’s Winter Palace January 22, 1905.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This jump starting of true global interrelatedness in world history began in the 16th century.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The term used to describe the minimal unemployment benefits enjoyed by British workers during the Great Depression.
What is “the dole”?
Arabic term for “cultivators” or tillers of their own land.
What is fellahin?
Sailor rebellion against Lenin’s party dictatorship in 1921 that resulted in their being crushed without mercy by loyal Red Guards.
What is the Kronstadt uprising?
Chinese reform movement based in Beijing that started in 1919 as a protest to the allocation of Chinese territory to Japan at the Paris Peace Conference.
What is the May Fourth Movement?
The world population in 2020 to the nearest billion.
What is 7.8 or 8 billion people?
An independent economy with no dependence on foreign suppliers.
What is an autarkic economy?
Italian term for “shock troops” whom Mussolini joined to form the Fascio di Combattimento in 1919 in order to use their expertise in destabilizing the nation’s parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
What is arditi?
British Brigadier General’s order to fire into a peaceful protest in the Punjab that resulted in nearly four hundred killed, but also an official reprimand and censure for Reginald Dyer.
What is the Amritsar massacre?
Artistic movement that featured the Mona Lisa with a mustache.
What is Dadaism?