Africa
He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
It is a meeting/conference/negotiation between heads of government.
What is a Summit?
It is the symbolic 6,000 mile journey made by Mao and his 100,000 followers.
What is the Long March?
It is an artificial 48-mile waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across aniIsthmus and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
It is a takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation with the intent of dominating the political, economic, and social life of the people in that area.
What is Imperialism?
It was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991
What is apartheid?
It was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The mountain range on the western side of the continent caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate under South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
It is a deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group.
What is a a genocide?
They include the desire to make money, expand and control foreign trade, creation of new markets for products, acquiring raw materials and cheap labor, gaining prestige by winning colonies, boosting national pride and the desire to spread Christianity
What are the reasons for Imperialism?
This is a form of irregular warfare a small group of combatants employ military tactics including ambushes and sabotage.
What is guerilla warfare?
The Open Door Policy was suggested by this country in order to achieve free trade in China.
What is America?
This country links Africa with the Middle East and dates to the time of the pharaohs. Millennia-old monuments sit along the fertile Nile River Valley, including Giza's colossal Pyramids and Great Sphinx
What is Egypt?
In 1900, this Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
In 1884–1885, this marked the climax of the European competition for territory in Africa, a process commonly known as the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
He believed the progress in Latin America can only be achieved through revolutionary socialism.
Who is Fidel Castro?
It was the official program initiated in the late 1970s and early ’80s by the central government of China. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population.
What is the One Child Policy?
This physical feature is an intermountain basin that stretches 600 miles from Peru to Argentina. The average elevation is 12,000 feet above sea level. It supported the Incan Empire before being conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century.
What is the Altiplano?
It is a belief system that stresses the importance of order, education, and hierarchy.
What is Confucianism?
He spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.
Who is Steven Biko?
It refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
He is best known for introducing capitalist reforms to China.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is globalization?
This philosophy focuses harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?